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

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

True fox sedge Carex vulpina tussock

Soft rush Juncus effusus pecil drawing

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria pencil drawing

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria with three flowering spikes

Reed Phragmites australis

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

Little tern Sternula albifrons flying over a beach with marram grass on dunes, shingelo behind, and distant hills on the horizon

Mallard duck Anas platyrhynchos female with four inquisitive ducklings, pen and ink drawing with the mother duck facing right and the four ducklings busy exploring behind her.

Mallard duck Anas platyrhynchos pair on water cut to white

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos fledgling with moulting feathers on grass

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

Two juvenile fledgling mallard ducks in a grass field, quacking

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