fodder

Red fescue Festuca rubra arundinacea with ligule and spikelet detail

Completed for Butterfly Conservation.  The plant shows flowers and seed pods.

Crested Dog’s-tail grass Cynosurus cristatus with written name

Crested Dog’s-tail grass Cynosurus cristatus 2 botanical illustration

Cock’s-foot grass Dactylis glomerata with written name

Cock’s-foot grass Dactylis glomerata 2 showing grass with shoots in full flower.

Yorkshire Fog Holcus lanatus grass with written name in hand painted watercolour text

Yorkshire Fog Holcus lanatus grass with annotations and name.  Parts include culm, inforescence or panicle, leaf blade, nodes, and internode.

Yorkshire Fog grass Holcus lanatus 2 with striped pink culms and soft green grass blades

Named Grasses with annotation of grass anatomy: False Oat, Crested Dogs-tail, Cocks-foot, and Yorkshire Fog

Grasses: False Oat Arrhenatherum elatius, Crested Dogs-tail Cynosurus cristatus, Cocks-foot Dactylis glomerata, and Yorkshire Fog Holcus lanatus.

False Oat grass Arrhenatherum elatius with written name botanical illustration

False Oat grass Arrhenatherum elatius botanical illustration  

Alfalfa flowers and plant with seedling, seed case, and seed

Wild garlic Allium ursinum in flower, pencil

Wild garlic Allium ursinum leaf and flowering head with flowers out and in bud

Sweetcorn Zea mays plant

Red clover Trifolium pratensis plant

Soybean Glycine max with pods and one flower

Rye grass Lolium perenne and individual spikelet

Rye Secale cereale whole plant and seedhead

Medicago lupulina Black medick with yellow flowers and black seed clusters along with trifoliate leaves with acuminate points

Italian Rye grass Lolium multiflorum and individual spikelet

Giant Fescue Festuca gigantea with spikelet, lemma and amplexicaul ligule