flower guide

Autumn crocus or meadow saffron sketch Colchicum autumnale.  From the Brecknockshire Flora; example of a monocot

Adder’s-tongue fern Ophioglossum vulgatum showing spore bearing “tongue”

Common glasswort Salicornia europaea plant for Field Studies Council

Water primrose Ludwigia grandiflora showing submerged and emergent leaves.  For FSC.

Carline Thistle Carlina vulgaris showing straw coloured flowers

Bird’s-foot showing sprawling habit and small multi-coloured flowers

Flower showing spreading habit, pale lilac flowers and rounded leaves

Common stork’s bill Erodium Cicutarium showing long beaked seeds and numerous small flowers in each flowering head.

Alexanders Smyrnium olusatrum with Puccinia smyrnii rust on some leaves, and detail of one flower and one seed.

Hibiscus Chinese Rose or Shoe flower Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Sketchbook study

Yellow horned-poppy Galucium flavum with seed pod

Thrift Armeria maritima with individual flower detail

Spring squill Scilla verna botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing large bulb

Sheeps bit Jasione montana showing plant and individual flower

Sea wormwood Artemesia maritima with outline showing shape of one lower leaf and flowering spike

Sea Sandwort Honckenya peploides showing distinctive stacked leaves and individual flower

Sea rocket Cakile maritima with detail of cross section through seed pod

Sea radish Raphanus raphanistrum maritimus with detail of one leaflet and constricted seed pod

Sea plantain Plantago maritima

Sea pea Lathyrus japonicus with detail of pea pod, seed, and square stem

Sea Milkwort Glaux maritima with individual flower in leaf axis

Sea mayweed Tripleurospermum maritimum with disc floret and achene with elongated oil gland

Sea holly Eryngium maritimum with single bract and seed

Sea Kale Crambe maritima