wild flowers

Snowberry Symphoricarpos albus sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Fox and Cubs showing stolon and basal rosette of hairy leaves, along with distinctive orange and yellow flowers

Pen and ink illustration for title on Poetry anthology

Completed for Butterfly Conservation.  The plant shows flowers and seed pods.

Common or Black Knapweed Centaura nigra, showing diverse leaf shape and typical spherical, purple flowering heads.

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

Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum showing two blooms with twisting stems.

California Yerba santa Eriodictyon californicum leaf shape

Hairy Yerba santa leaf shapes E trichocalyx var lanatum, showing margins and venation

Hairy Yerba santa Eriodictyon leaf shapes E trichocalyx var trichocalyx showing margins and venation

Narrow-leaved Yerba santa Eriodictyon angustifolium leaf shape, showing margins and venation

California Yerba santa Eriodictyon californicum with individual flower detail

Hairy Yerba santa Eriodictyon trichocalyx var. lanatum

Hairy Yerba Santa Eriodictyon trichocalyx var trichocalyx

Narrow-leaved yerba santa Eriodictyon angustifolium with individual flower detail

Magnolia flower Magnolia grandiflora, single flower.

Lily of the Valley flower Convallaria majalis.  Single bloom from a drooping flowering spike

Foxglove flower Digitaria purpurea.  Single flower shown face on.

Lilac flower Syringa vulgaris.  Close up of one flower from a larger flowering spike.

Bluebell flower Hyancinthoides non-scripta, single blossom

Dry stone wall with Maidenhair spleenwort, Wall rue, and Soft Shield fern growing; all of which are Leptosporangiate ferns.  Polypoidy ferns growing on a distant tree behind.

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

Yew Taxus baccata sprig from tree showing red berries

Wood rush sketch Luzula sylvatica in flower and seed, showing the distinctive long hairs on the leaves