wetland

Sprig of Alder showing several leaves and three ripe cones

Yellow waterlily Nuphar luteum floating on water with developing “brandy bottle” seed flask

White waterlily Nymphaea alba shown floating on water with lily pads

White & Yellow waterlily Nymphaea alba & Nuphar luteum comparison, shown in water.

Delicate Stonewort Chara virgata.  Botanical illustration from the Brecknockshire flora.

Marsh Pennywort Hydrocotyle vulgaris showing stoloniferous growth

Bog Rosemary Andromeda polifolia showing distinctive bell-like flowers

Changing forget-me-not Myosotis discolor showing yellow and pink and blue flowers

Bog Asphodel Narthecium ossifragum for identification chart

Branched Bur-reed Sparganium erectum showing rhizomes, and plant with flowers and fruit.  Illustration also shows details of an individual fruit, and of a female and male flower.  

Arrowhead Sagittaria sagitarria showing underwater ribbon-like leaves and floating oval leaves.  Emergent leaves are arrow-shaped.  Illustration also shows flowers and fruit.

Broad-leaved Pondweed Potamogeton natans with detail of fruiting spike, one seed, and one flower.

Frog’s-bit Hydrocharis morsus-ranae showing plant with female flowers on the left, and one with male flowers on the right.  Illustration shows rhizomes as well as floating orbicular leaves and flowers.

Water horsetail showing two sterile stems and two fertile stems, one with leaves and one without.  Also showing cross section of the stem, and the rhizome.

Parrots Feather Myriophyllum aquaticum showing rosettes of leaves below water.  Also showing detail of the tiny flowers, and a vegetative and flowering spike.

Flowering rush Butomus umbellatus with details of individual flower, leaf cross section, stamen before and after dehiscence, and seedhead

Alder Alnus glutinosa tree

Sarep sprite Pseudagrion sarepi male in side view cut to white

Otter Lutra lutra in profile in a reed bed

Otter Lutra lutra in amongst reeds and in a patch of clear mud, startled and looking at the viewer, showing webbed feet and pale chin and chest

Otter Lutra lutra eating a brown trout, fur wet, in profile, cut to white

Otter Lutra lutra tracks footprints in pen and ink

Otter Lutra lutra perched on a boulder with a fish it’s just caught, ferns mud and a little folaige behind

Otter Lutra lutra watercolour sketch