nature

Horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum conkers both in, and out of, their seed case

Small-leaved Lime leaf and seeds Tilia cordata with bract

Guelder rose Viburnum opulus leaf and fruit showing shiny red berries

Spindle Euonymus europaeus bright coloured autumn leaf and berries

Norway spruce Picea abies cone and individual seed

London plane Platanus × acerifolia leaf and seeds, with details of individual seeds

Hornbeam Carpinus betulus mature dry seed with bracts

Field maple Acer campestre sprig showing leaves and developing seeds and close up of mature seeds

Broken-belted bumble bee Bombus soroeensis, showing the bumble bee in flight, male bee

Broken-belted male bumblebee in flight.  Illustration for Swedish packaging company

Wood melick Melica uniflora with detail of ligule and individual floret

Red tailed bumblebee Bombus lapidarius with Cornflower Centaurea cyanus.  Second version of this seed packet design

Field fleawort Tephroseris intergrifolia showing basal rosette and furry characteristics

Early gentian Gentianella amarella subsp anglica showing pair leaves and basal rosette

Bastard-toadflax Thesium humifusum with detail of individual flower

Blunt-fruited water-starwort Callitriche obtusangula showing emergent rosette and submerged leaves.  Detail of intermediate leaves leaf tip and fruit.

Juniper Juniperus communis with detail of male and female flowers

Shepherd’s needle or Venus’s comb Scandix pecten-veneris showing distinctive elongated seed pods and details of flower

Stream water-crowfoot Ranunculus penicillatus subsp. pseudofluitans

Prickly poppy Papaver argemone with detail of prickly seed head, stamen, and seed

Sharp rush Juncus acutus with leaf tip and nutlet detail

Marram grass Ammophila arenaria with detail of flowering head, ligule and in-rolled leaf

Sand pansy Viola tricolor ssp curtisi showing insubstantial foliage and yellow and white flowers

Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare & buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris