streams

Giant rhubarb Gunnera tinctoria showing one enormous leaf and a crimson tinged flowering spike

Giant rhubarb Gunnera tinctoria Detail habit drawing

Lesser diving beetle Acilius sulcatus pointing downwards with water weed behind, hind legs outstretched to show how they resemble oars

Water vole Arvicola amphibius tracks footprints

Water vole Arvicola amphibius showing how fluffy and formless these creatires are, in profile on sandy bank with background riparian vegetation

Water vole Arvicola amphibius pencil sketch of stream bank and a vole swimming underwater emitting air bubbles

Yellow saxifrage Saxifraga azoides with red stem and detail of single petal

Watercress Nasturtium officinale with flower and seeds and edible leaves

Spiked Water Milfoil Myriophyllum spicatum pencil drawing showing the plant below and above the water

Red currant Ribes rubrum showing the shiny red currants and birght green leaves and flowers

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

Meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria in flower

Meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria pencil drawing

Meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria flowers and one leaflet

Meloncholy thistle Cirsium heterophyllum

Indian Rhubarb Darmera peltata pencil drawing showing flowers and one leaf

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

Greater reedmace Typha latifolia flowering spike

Greater tussock sedge Carex paniculata individual platn and large tussock of the plant along with ligule, stem cross section and glume detail. In flower

Giant hogweed Heracleum sphondylium with stem cross section and lots of leaves

Opposite-leaved golden saxifrage Chrysosplenium oppositifolium sprig

Water vole Arvicola amphibius showing how fluffy and formless these creatires are, in profile on sandy bank with background riparian vegetation

Water shrew Neomys fodiens on a muddy bank with some vegetation, peering upward and showing its dark fur and feet clearly

Dipper eating aquatic invertebrate