wild plants

Monocot plant variety featuring numerous monocots such as rush, grass, bluebell, sedge, and crocus.

Meadow saxifrage sketch Saxifraga granulata with white flowers and basal rosette of rounded leaves.

Marsh horsetail Equisetum palustre with strobili growing in shallow water or marshland.

Ivy-leaved Bellflower sketch Wahlenbergia hederacea showing sprawling habit

Hawkweed sketch Hieracium showing basal rosette and dandelion-like flowers

Globe flower sketch Trollius europaeus showing characteristic closed flower shape.

Fragrant orchid sketch Gymnadenia conopsea showing flowers and leaves

Field horsetail Equisetum arvense, with background.

Fern spore of an Ophioglossum species, showing the distinctive tri-partite shape and textured spore surface.

Eudicot seedling showing paired cotyledon leaves, seed, and root.

Eudicot plant variety with eudicot seedling. Plants illustrated are: Ivy-leaved bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea, Hawkweed Hieracium, Meadow saxifrage Saxifraga granulata, Globe flower Trollius europaeus, Wood Bitter-vetch Vicia orobus, and Welsh Poppy Meconopsis cambrica.

Eudicot and monocot seedling comparison showing cotyledon leaves on the eudicot and furled parallel-veined leaves of the monocot.

Delicate Stonewort Chara virgata.  Botanical illustration from the Brecknockshire flora.

Cuckooflower or Lady’s-smock Cardamine pratensis showing basal rosette, flowers, and young silique seed pods.

Horsetails: Calamophytes Field horsetail Equisetum arvense, Marsh horsetail Equisetum palustre, & Water or River horsetail Equisetum fluviatile

Bluebell sketch Hyacinthoides non-scripta showing blue flowers and strap-like leaves

Autumn crocus or meadow saffron sketch Colchicum autumnale.  From the Brecknockshire Flora; example of a monocot

Adder’s-tongue fern Ophioglossum vulgatum showing spore bearing “tongue”

Marsh Pennywort Hydrocotyle vulgaris showing stoloniferous growth

Lousewort Pedicularis sylvatica showing low growing parasitic plant with root

Bog Rosemary Andromeda polifolia showing distinctive bell-like flowers

Heath Milkwort Polygala serpyllifolia showing sprawling habit and calyx and seed detail

Mouse-ear Hawkweed Pilosella officinarum with stolon and basal rosette

Changing forget-me-not Myosotis discolor showing yellow and pink and blue flowers