wetlands

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

Montezuma cypress Taxodium mucronatum cones and leaf sprays

Montezuma cypress Taxodium mucronatum tree showing habit and growth

Giant reed Arundo donax showing growth habit and flowering head of spikelets

Yellow water-lily Nuphar lutea pencil drawing of flowers, brandy bottle seed head, and leaves floating on the water surface

True fox sedge Carex vulpina tussock

Star sedge Carex echinata plant with two stigmas, ligule, fruit, female glume and leaf tip

Soft rush Juncus effusus pecil drawing

Reed Phragmites australis

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria with three flowering spikes

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria pencil drawing

Common reed Phragmites australis growing from rhizome with individual spikelet detail and ligule of hairs

View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]

Reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus perched in amongst a thicket of reeds peering down

Mallard duck Anas platyrhynchos duckling, quick pencil sketch showing spiky fluffy feathers

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos duckling in the process of hatching from its egg, half in half our and exhausted with wet feathers

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos ducklings with food and a flat dish with water and marbles in to teach bred ducklings to dabble without fear of drowning

Two juvenile fledgling mallard ducks in a grass field, quacking

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos ducklings foraging on grass under the watchful eye of their mother with distinctive blue speculum

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos fledgling with moulting feathers on grass

Mallard duck Anas platyrhynchos pair on water cut to white