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Bog Rosemary Andromeda polifolia showing distinctive bell-like flowers

Spreading Cotoneaster Cotoneaster divaricatus Sketchbook study showing leaf vein patters, underneath of leaves, twigs, branching pattern, and autumn foliage.  Also shown are details of the Spreading cotoneaster berry, flowers, cross section of a flower, and habit sketch.  For more on cotoneaster species, look at my blog.

Snow-in-Summer or Dusty Miller Cerastium tomentosum sketchbook study showing habit sketch and detail of an asexual sprig. Seed and seed coat detail, calyx, leaf, flower and flower cross section are also depicted.  Details of the bud and fur on leaf also appear.

Caucasian Stonecrop Sedum spurius sketchbook study.  Illustration shows details of plant, flowers, a habit sketch, and an individual flower.  Also includes details of the leaf edge, and Sedum spurius purpurea plant (Dragon’s blood sedum).

Himalayan Blackberry Rubus armeniacus.  Sketchbook illustration shows flower, flower cross section, leaf shape and underside, stem, seed, early fruit and seed detail

Ground elder Aegopodium podagraria showing individual seed and flower as well as spreading roots

Periwinkle Vinca major flower sketch concentrating on the blues of the petals.

Japanese honeysuckle Lonicera japonica showing white flowers, dark green leaves and black berries

Piri Piri bur Acaena novae-zelandiae with individual detail of flower and seed

Pen and ink botanical illustration of Chickweed Stellaria mediea

White clover Trifolium repens showing rooting nodes and pale chevrons on the leaves

Rye grass Lolium perenne and individual spikelet

Mountain avans Dryas octopetala plant with flowrs and detail of a lone seed head

Crowberry Empetrum nigrum in fruit with individual leaf, flower, and leaf cross section which shows the inrolled leaf margin

Bearberry Arctostaphylos uva ursi in berry showing intricate netwrok on veins on each leaf and rooting nodes