grass

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  

Welsh meadow landscape with Redstart, buzzard, swallows and lots of butterflies (Gilfach Nature reserve).  Numerous animal species illustrated include swallows, hoverfly, grasshopper, and bees.  Flowers include knapweed, thistles, buttercup, bedstraws, betony, sedges, and other riverside meadow plants.

Nursery web spider Pisaura mirabilis showing mother carrying egg sac

Harvestman Opiliones species showing distinctive rounded undivided body and spindly legs

Common Cord Grass Spartina anglica showing grass, flowering spike, rhizome, and characteristic growth pattern

Wild marjoram Origanum vulgare pen and ink botanical illustration

Rough meadow grass Poa trivialis botanical illustration

Sweet vernal grass Anthoxum odoratum botanical illustration with details of spikelet and ligule

Soft brome Bromus hordeaceus grass showing growth habit and botanical details of spikelet and ligule

Primrose Primula vulgaris plant showing pale underside and darker top of leaves

Hay meadow cross section showing mole burrow and roots below the soil and flowers, butterflies, and insects above ground

Yorkshire fog Holcus lanatus plant with lemma, ligule, and spikelet detail

Wood sedge Carex sylvatica with fruit, female glume, and ligule details

Wood horsetail Equisetum sylvestris plant, stem detail, and flowering spike

Wood Melick Melica uniflora plant with ligule, lemma, and spikelet details

Wood millet Milium effusum with ligule, lemma and spikelet detail

White dead nettle Lamium album plant

Wild marjoram Origanum vulgare sprig

Wild Strawberry Fragaria vesca in flower with ripe fruit

Wild thyme Thymus praecox showing low growth habit and with details of the square stem and a single leaf

Tufted hair grass Deschampsia caespitosa with ligule, spikelet, lemma, and leaf cross section showing how each blade is rolled up

Upright brome Bromus erectus with ligule spikelet and lemma