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Water soldier Stratiotes aloides showing emergent leaves

Reindeer lichen Cladonia rangiformis showing spots of algae growing on the grey branches

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

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

Dry specimen showing how incurled the moss becomes when not wet

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

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

Showing yellow and cream colouration and sprawling, tufted habit  

Honeysuckle berries Lonicera pericylmenum with leaves and showing these bright, shiny berries.

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

Himalayan Blackberry Rubus armeniacus.  Sketchbook illustration shows flower, flower cross section, leaf shape and underside, stem, seed, early fruit and seed detail

Common Blue-sow thistle Cicerbita macrophylla sketchbook page compared to Alpine Sow-thistle Cicerbita alpina. Details of leaf venation, habit sketch, individual ray florets, seed information, and associated comparative details of the Alpine Sow-thistle

Yellow horned-poppy Galucium flavum with seed pod

Thrift Armeria maritima with individual flower detail

Spring squill Scilla verna botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing large bulb

Sheeps bit Jasione montana showing plant and individual flower