gardening

Marsh marigold Caltha palustris flowers with bud and round leaves

Marsh stitchwort Stellaria palustris

Marsh Thistle Cirsium palustre with basal rosette of leaves and erect stem with tight cluster of thistle flowers

Marsh valerian Valeriana dioica showing different leaf shapes and rooting nodes along with flowers

Lime Tilia europaea bark study

Jacobs ladder Polemonium caeruleum with leaves and bright blue flowers

Linear leaf diagram showing the long thin shape of this leaf type

Kentish fillbasket apple Malus close up of the apples with several leaves behind

Corolla lip diagram

Kidney vetch Anthyllis vulneraria with flowers emerging from fluffy calyx

Lobed leaf diagram

Ladies bedstraw Galium verum with yellow flowers and leaf rosettes

Lanceolate leaf diagram showing the simple leaf shape

Larch Larix decidua sprig with mature cone and young flower detail

Lawson’s Cypress Chamaecyparis lawsoniana pen and ink drawing of a mature tree

Leaf axil diagram showing exactly where the leaf axil is located

Cornflower example of a linear leaf

Lesser celendine Ficaria verna with yellow flowers and bulbous root appendages

Lesser spearwort Ranunculus flammula plant growing from grass

Lesser spearwort Ranunculus flammula with flowers and buds

Lesser Water Parsnip Berula erecta with individual flower and fruit

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

Lily of the valley Convallaria majalis leaves and flowers

Hemlock Water dropwort Oenanthe crocata with details of the roots, of an individual leaf, and of one flower and one fruit