rocks

Bog Rosemary Andromeda polifolia showing distinctive bell-like flowers

Blue mussels Mytilus edulis with byssal threads on wooden piling.  Illustration includes barnacles and limpets, and some bladder wrack seaweed.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).

Shining cranesbill Geranium lucidum with scarlet leaves, flowers, and seedheds

Parsley fern Cryptogramma crispa showing both forms of the frond

Rusty Hook moss Scorpidium revolvens tuft, individual shoot, and one recurved leaf

Cypress leaved Plait moss Hypnum cupressiforme with detail of one leaf, the spore capsule, and a fascicle

Maidenhair spleenwort Asplenuum trichomanes tuft of this small and pretty fern found growing in a churchyard wall

Common rock rose Helianthemum nummularia with flowrs from front and behind (showing calyx) and low lying growth habit