wildlife

Bastard-toadflax Thesium humifusum with detail of individual flower

Blunt-fruited water-starwort Callitriche obtusangula showing emergent rosette and submerged leaves.  Detail of intermediate leaves leaf tip and fruit.

Juniper Juniperus communis with detail of male and female flowers

Shepherd’s needle or Venus’s comb Scandix pecten-veneris showing distinctive elongated seed pods and details of flower

Stream water-crowfoot Ranunculus penicillatus subsp. pseudofluitans

Prickly poppy Papaver argemone with detail of prickly seed head, stamen, and seed

Sharp rush Juncus acutus with leaf tip and nutlet detail

Sand pansy Viola tricolor ssp curtisi showing insubstantial foliage and yellow and white flowers

Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare & buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Banded demoiselle Calyopteryx splendens male perched on a reed

Common or smooth newt Lissotriton vulgaris cut to white

Red-tailed bumblebee Bombus lapidarius worker showing orange abdominal segments

Common frog Rana temporia watercolour illustration cut to white

Cut to white illustration of female common toad showing warty skin and orange eye

Cornflowers Centaurea cyanus in a meadow with Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lapidarius

Bittern Botaurus stellaris cut to white showing cryptic colouring and large beak and legs

Garden scene designed for use on seed packet for wild flowers.

Sessile Oak tree Quercus petraea showing habit and twisted branches

Duck potato Sagittaria latifolia botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing underwater “potato” growths

Fool’s water-cress Apium nodiflorum with seed and flower detail

Greater Bird’s-foot trefoil Lotus pendunculatus or Lotus uliginosus with calyx detail

Gypsywort Lycopus europaeus with detail of flower calyx and seed

Water fern Azolla filiculoides shown floating with water repelling properties

Water figwort Scrophularia auriculata with detail of flower stem and seed