spring flowers

Water forget-me-not Myosotis scorpiodes showing growth habit

Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly with Cuckoo-flower Cardamine pratensis.  Illustration shows male butterfly with wigs open, and another with wings folder closed on the host plant Cuckoo-flower (or Ladies’ smock)

Bluebell flower Hyancinthoides non-scripta, single blossom

Cuckooflower or Lady’s-smock Cardamine pratensis showing basal rosette, flowers, and young silique seed pods.

Sprig of blossom of the wild cherry with early emergent leaves

Lungwort Pulmonaria officianalis showing distinctive spotted leaves

Garden border in spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils and daisies abutting a carefully tended lawn and edged with concrete slabs

Garden border in spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils and daisies abutting a carefully tended lawn and edged with concrete slabs

Landscape showing an ancient oak woodland with oak trees which were last pollarded years ago, the under storey is carpeted with bluebells, the trees are hung with lichen, and there are moths in the foreground settled on a patch of wild spring flowers

Vertebrate embryos comparing growth forms in chart form