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Common Poppy Papaver rhoeas with seedhead, top of seedhead, and seed detail

Yellow Flag Iris pseudoacorus in flower

Yellow Flag Iris pseudoacorus in flower, pencil drawing

Tubular water dropwort Oenanthe fistulosa in amongst grasses with flowering head and seed head, and showing the stem swelling as well as leaves

Reedmace Typha latifolia rhizome detail with roots and vegetative shoot growing from a rhizome

Reed canary grass Phalaris arundinacea pencil drawing of the spike

Marsh marigold Caltha palustris flowers with bud and round leaves

Marsh marigold Caltha palustris with roots and flowers, buds and fruit shown

Lesser spearwort Ranunculus flammula with flowers and buds

Lesser spearwort Ranunculus flammula plant growing from grass

Iris seed pods, one open and the other not yet open

Hard Rush Juncus inflexus in flower with detail of individual fruit and cross section of pith in the stem

Greater reedmace Typha latifolia flowering spike

Greater reedmace Typha latifolia flowering head in pencil, also sometimes know (wrongly) as bull rush

Flowering rush Butomus umbellatus pencil drawing

Common Cow wheat Melampyrum pratense with different leaf shapes shown alonf with flower

Arrowhead Sagittaria sagittifolia pencil image showing plant above and below wtaer and the different leaves in both habitats, in flwoer

View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]