UK flora

Early Marsh Orchid Dactylorhiza incarnata ssp coccinea showing distinctive red flowers and stocky low habit

Close up of one flower showing reflexed sides of labellum and red colour

Portland spurge Euphorbia portlandica with flower fruit seed and leaf underside

Lesser Hawkbit Leontodon saxatilis with details of pappas types on two different achenes

With stem detail showing swollen red bases of stem hairs

With spikelet detail, showing how the upper leaf looks like a continuation of the stem

Dry specimen showing how incurled the moss becomes when not wet

Sand hill screwmoss Wet specimen showing green starry tips against bronze background

Syntrichia ruraliformis ruraliformis fascicle and leaf with hyaline tip

Western eyebright Euphrasia tetraquetra with leaf & flower detail

Sharp rush Juncus acutus with nutlet and inflorescence

Bog pimpernel Anagallis tenella showing sprawling habit

Perennial Cornflower Centaurea montana cut to white

Showing seed, pale pink flowers, woolly blue leaves and a seed

Showing yellow and cream colouration and sprawling, tufted habit  

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

Alexanders Smyrnium olusatrum with Puccinia smyrnii rust on some leaves, and detail of one flower and one seed.

Wood vetch showing branching tendrils, growth habit, and the darker-coloured banner petals.