flowering spike

Foxglove flower Digitaria purpurea.  Single flower shown face on.

Alaskan lupin Lupinus nootkanensis plant showing leaves and blue flowering spikes.

Nootka lupin Lupinus nootkanensis flowering spike in sketch style, watercolour & graphite

Nootka lupin Lupinus nootkanensis sketchbook studies showing details of leaflets, seed pods, seeds, root, habit sketch, and flower cross sections.

Nootka lupin sketch with notes showing details of leaflets, seed pods, seeds, root, habit sketch, and flower cross sections.

Greater plantain Plantago major showing basal rosette with individual detail of one flower

Greater plantain Plantago major pen and ink illustration line drawing with flower detail

Fat hen Chenopodium album pen and ink illustration with detail of one flower

Watermint Mentha aquatica in flower

Tufted vetch Vicia cracca with pod, curling tendrils, and purple flowers

Salad burnett Sanguisorba minor with detail of individual male and female flowers

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria pencil drawing

Reedmace Typha latifolia rhizome detail with roots and vegetative shoot growing from a rhizome

Raceme diagram to show this flowering structure

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria with three flowering spikes

Pennywort Umbilicus rupestris showing round fleshy leaves and white flowers

Diagram of a panicle of flowers

Monochaisal Cyme diagram usinf forget me not as an example

Lily of the valley Convallaria majalis leaves and flowers

Lily of the valley Convallaria majalis raceme of flowers growing against wide green leaf

Ladies bedstraw Galium verum with yellow flowers and leaf rosettes

Hedge woundwort Stachys sylvatica showing square stem and individual flower detail

Greater reedmace Typha latifolia flowering spike

Greater reedmace Typha latifolia flowering head in pencil, also sometimes know (wrongly) as bull rush