heathland

Bloody-nosed beetle Timarcha tenebricosa illustrated for South Devon National Landscapes

Harebell illustration, slightly idealised and with extra blooms, completed for a packaging job.

Scots pine Pinus sylvestris cones, one mature and one less ripe

Short-eared owl Asio flammeus in heather

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.

Wood or Upright Bitter-vetch sketch Vicia orobus with pinnate paired leaves and pale mauve flowers.

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.

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

Bird’s-foot showing sprawling habit and small multi-coloured flowers

Flower showing spreading habit, pale lilac flowers and rounded leaves

Heather Calluna vulgaris pen and ink line drawing with details of the shoot and individual flower

Keeled skimmer Orthetrum coerulescens male resting on vegetation cut to white

Forester moth Adscita statices with folded wings on a scabious flower, showin1g black colour and glittery irridescence of the wings

Heath fritillary butterfly Melitaea athalia on cowwheat with speedwell, one in flight and one showing folded underwings

Small Copper Lycanae phlaeas Butterfly cut to white

Grayling butterfly Hipparchia semele

Large blue butterfly Maculinea arion male showing underside of wings

Green Tiger Beetle Cicindela campestris cut to white dorsal view showing green wu=ing cases with white markings and metallic pink legs and ferocious jaws

Dark Green Fritillary butterfly Argynnis aglaja with wings folded so you can see the green and species specific dark green colours on the underside, cut to white

Bilberry bumblebee Bombus monticola in amongst heath plants and heather with distinctive orange furry abdomen

Twinflower Linnaea borealis pencil drawing