grassland

Illustration for Roselyn Seeds packaging showing wild flowers in meadow setting

Wood melick Melica uniflora with detail of ligule and individual floret

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

Eudicot plant variety.  Plants illustrated are: , Ivy-leaved bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea,  Hawkweed  Hieracium, Meadow saxifrage  Saxifraga granulata, Globe flower Trollius europaeus, Wood Bitter-vetch Vicia orobus, and the Welsh Poppy Meconopsis cambrica.

Moonwort Botrychium lunaria with sporangia, spore producing stems.

Globe flower sketch Trollius europaeus showing characteristic closed flower shape.

Eudicot plant variety with eudicot seedling. Plants illustrated are: Ivy-leaved bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea, Hawkweed Hieracium, Meadow saxifrage Saxifraga granulata, Globe flower Trollius europaeus, Wood Bitter-vetch Vicia orobus, and Welsh Poppy Meconopsis cambrica.

Cuckooflower or Lady’s-smock Cardamine pratensis showing basal rosette, flowers, and young silique seed pods.

Marsh Pennywort Hydrocotyle vulgaris showing stoloniferous growth

Lousewort Pedicularis sylvatica showing low growing parasitic plant with root

Bog Rosemary Andromeda polifolia showing distinctive bell-like flowers

Heath Milkwort Polygala serpyllifolia showing sprawling habit and calyx and seed detail

Mouse-ear Hawkweed Pilosella officinarum with stolon and basal rosette

Bog Asphodel Narthecium ossifragum for identification chart

Thomsons Gazelle Eudorcas thomsonii illustration from A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough

Nursery web spider Pisaura mirabilis showing mother carrying egg sac

Coastal Hay Meadow in Devon (Bentham).  Illustration shows idealised grassland scene with insects, birds, and wild flowers one would hope to see in a well managed coastal hay meadow.

Birds foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus with seed pod and individual flower and calyx

Harvestman Opiliones species showing distinctive rounded undivided body and spindly legs

Thrift Armeria maritima with individual flower detail

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

English Stonecrop Sedum anglicum with individual detail of flowers, plant, leaf attachment

Bucks horn plantain Plantago maritima showing plant and an individual flower

Bird’s foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus with seed pod and individual flower and calyx