wild plants

Bay Laurus nobilis sprig showing small white flowers and aromatic evergreen leaves

Christmas tree Nordmann Fir Abies nordmanniana fully decorated with a big pile of gifts underneath

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

Water plantain Alisma plantago-aquatica with details of fruit individual seed and one flower

False Virginia creeper Parthenocissus inserta showing berries, flowers and tendrils free of suckers.  For more, check out my blog

False acacia Robinia pseudoacacia with detail of the grey bark and of one opened seed pod

Entire leaved Cotoneaster Cotoneaster‌ integrifolius sprig showing leaf rosette, berries, and detail of one flower.  For more on Cotoneassters, check out my blog

Entire leaved cotoneaster Cotoneaster integrifolius detail of small leaf rosette, one berry, and the underside of a leaf.

Broad leaved rush Juncus planifolius showing its growth habit, wide leaves, and flowering spike. Botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper

Brazilian Giant rhubarb Gunnera manicata showing a flowering spike in front of one of the plant’s gigantic leaves

Hottentot Fig Carpobrotus edulis showing the large pink flowers and pale succulent leaves

Himalayan balsam Impatiens glandulifera with details of flower, seed and seed pods, stem, roots, and growth habit.

Himalalyan knotweed Persicaria wallichii showing a plant and close up of one flower.

Giant rhubarb Gunnera tinctoria showing one enormous leaf and a crimson tinged flowering spike

Giant rhubarb Gunnera tinctoria Detail habit drawing

Giant knotweed Fallopia sachalinensis showing numerous drooping flowers, large leaves, stem section and detail of the orange underground rhizome

Few flowered leek Alium paradoxum showing flowers and fruit, with cross section of stem and one leaf.

Perfoliate Alexanders Smyrnium perfoliatum