moorland

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

Short-eared owl Asio flammeus in heather

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

Changing forget-me-not Myosotis discolor showing yellow and pink and blue flowers

Bog Asphodel Narthecium ossifragum for identification chart

Quaking grass Briza media with detail of ligule and flower

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

Large blue butterfly Maculinea arion male showing underside of wings

Emperor moth Saturnia pavonia female adult cut to whtie showing grey and brown furry wings with eyespots

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

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

Wavy hair grass Deschampsia flexuosa with ligule, spikelet, and lemma detail

Water horsetail Equisetum fluviatile pencil illustration showing flower and leaf

Vivaparous grass Festuca vivipara

Tormentil Potentilla erecta plant showing both shapes of leaves

Sharp Flowered Rush Juncus acutiflorus with fruit and cross section of stem to show pith detail

Purple Moor Grass Molinia caerulea

Moss campion Silene acaulis tuft with detail of individual toothed leaf and flowers in bloom

Marsh horsetail Equisetum palustre small pencil illustration

Mat grass Nardus scticta tuft with residual basal growth and detail of individual lemma