Welsh

Eudicot plant variety.  Plants illustrated are: , Ivy-leaved bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea,  Hawkweed  Hieracium, Meadow saxifrage  Saxifraga granulata, Globe flower Trollius europaeus, Wood Bitter-vetch Vicia orobus, and the Welsh Poppy Meconopsis cambrica.

Welsh poppy sketch Meconopsis cambrica showing bud and yellow flower in bloom

Moonwort Botrychium lunaria with sporangia, spore producing stems.

Fern spore of an Ophioglossum species, showing the distinctive tri-partite shape and textured spore surface.

Eudicot plant variety with eudicot seedling. Plants illustrated are: Ivy-leaved bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea, Hawkweed Hieracium, Meadow saxifrage Saxifraga granulata, Globe flower Trollius europaeus, Wood Bitter-vetch Vicia orobus, and Welsh Poppy Meconopsis cambrica.

Adder’s-tongue fern Ophioglossum vulgatum showing spore bearing “tongue”

Welsh meadow landscape with Redstart, buzzard, swallows and lots of butterflies (Gilfach Nature reserve).  Numerous animal species illustrated include swallows, hoverfly, grasshopper, and bees.  Flowers include knapweed, thistles, buttercup, bedstraws, betony, sedges, and other riverside meadow plants.

Stirtons Whitebeam Sorbus stirtoniana. Botanical illustration of this very rare tree with blossom, individual leaves, and a cluster of red berries

Wild daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus straight on and in side view

View of the river Wye over a still pool with overhanging tree and a little row boat moored by the river bank, distant hills behind

Welsh river landscape looking across a stretch of smooth water to the trees on the opposite bank

Oakland landscapw with details of mosses and lickesn and some insects that live in and on the oak trees including beetles and wasps; bird in the background include the nuthatch, pied flycatcher, warbler, and great tit