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Wildflower Seed, Wildflower Seed Mixtures and Wildflower Plants. A huge range of Native UKWildflower products available to buy online or call 0800 883 0169 for sales and advice. Boston Seeds are wholesale wildflower seed suppliers but we are also the UK's largest online retailer of quality wildflower seeds

 A Guide to Wildflower Species

Agrimony, Common (Agrimonia eupatoria)

Agrimony, Common (Agrimonia eupatoria)
  • Perennial meadow plant with decorative leaves and spikes of yellow flowers.
  • Attracts bees and wild birds
  • Flowers: July to September
  • Height: 30-60cm.
  • Approx 60 seeds per gramme.

    Agrimony, Fragrant (Agrimonia procera)

    Agrimony, Fragrant (Agrimonia procera)
  • Perennial. Tall upright plant with soft hairs, yellow flowers 5-8mm in a long spike, fruit grooved and spiny.
  • Flowers: June - September
  • Requires: Open woods, hedges, meadows, moist-dry calcareous soils, not acid.
  • Height: can grow to 1.5m.
  • Approx 60 seeds per gramme.

    Agrimony, Hemp (Eupatoria cannabinum)

    Agrimony, Hemp (Eupatoria cannabinum)
  • Perennial. A tall stately plant with masses of white-pink flowers, an excellent butterfly plant attracting large numbers in late summer.
  • Flowers: July-Sept.
  • Requires: Damp
  • Height: 60-120cm.
  • Approx. 3300 seeds per gramme.

    Angelica, Wild (Angelica sylvestris)

    Angelica, Wild (Angelica sylvestris)
    • Perennial. Tall hairless plant can grow to 2m, large leaves
    • Stems hollow and purplish , flowers white or pink
    • Flowers: July - September
    • Requires: Damp meadows, wet woodlands, fenland
    • Approx.

    Avens, Water (Geum rivale)

    Avens, Water (Geum rivale)
  • Perennial. Pink drooping flowers with purple sepals.
  • Flowers: April to June.
  • Requires: From sun to deep shade. Likes damp places.
  • Height: 30cm.
  • Approx. 500 seeds per gramme.

    Avens, Wood (Geum urbanum)

    Avens, Wood (Geum urbanum)
  • Perennial. Small yellow flowers followed by burr-like seed heads.
  • Flowers: June onwards.
  • Requires: Deep shade.
  • Height: 30-60cm.
  • Approx. 1400 seeds per gramme.

    Barley Grass (Hordeum secalinum)

    Barley Grass (Hordeum secalinum)
  • Perennial. Meadow Barley. Grey/green flower like a small barley head
  • Flowers: June-July
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 45 cm

    Bedstraw, Heath (Galium saxatile)

    Bedstraw, Heath (Galium saxatile)
  • Perennial. Small creeping plant, leaves in 4-8s with pointed prickles, long stalks. White flowers, 3mm, in small clusters.
  • Flowers: June - August.
  • Requires: Heaths, poor grassland, dry-acid soil.
  • Height: 15-39cm.
  • 1750 seeds per gramme.

    Bedstraw, Hedge (Galium mollugo)

    Bedstraw, Hedge (Galium mollugo)
  • Perennial. Small, white starry flowers, best clambering up hedges or shrubs. Sweetly scented.
  • Flowers: July to August
  • Requires: Well drained, dry soil.
  • Height: 30-60cm.
  • Approx. 2000 seeds per gramme.

    Bedstraw, Lady's (Galium verum)

    Bedstraw, Lady's (Galium verum)
  • Perennial. Used in victorian times to scent bedding.
  • Delicately whorled leaves and bright golden
  • Beautiful sweet scent in high summer.
  • Flowers: July onwards.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 15-30cm.
  • Approx. 1600 seeds per gramme.

    Bellflower, Clustered (Campanula glomerata)

    Bellflower, Clustered (Campanula glomerata)
  • Perennial. Flowers in dense cluster at end of stem, violet-blue.
  • Flowers: June-September
  • Requires: Dry grassland/meadow, edges of woods
  • Height: 40-50 cms
  • Approx 5500 seeds per gramme 

    Bellflower, Nettle-Leaved (Campanula trachelium)

    Bellflower, Nettle-Leaved (Campanula trachelium)
  • Perennial. Lower leaves resemble nettle leaves, flowers droop from the top.
  • Flowers: July - September.
  • Requires: Open deciduous woods, scrub and hedgerows.
  • Height: can grow to 1m tall.
  • Approx 4000 seeds per gramme. 

    Betony (Stachys officinalis)

    Betony (Stachys officinalis)
  • Perennial. Attractive leaves and many stems smothered in brilliant reddish-purple flowers, adored by bees.
  • Flowers: June onwards.
  • Requires: Well drained sunny.
  • Height: 30cm
  • Approx. 600 seeds per gramme.

    Birdsfoot, Greater (Lotus uliginosus)

    Birdsfoot, Greater (Lotus uliginosus)
  • Yellow flowers in a larger head than birdsfoot trefoil.
  • Flowers: June-Aug.
  • Requires: Moist.
  • Height: 30 cm.
  • Approx. 2000 seeds per gramme.

    Black Medic (Medicago lupulina)

    Black Medic (Medicago lupulina)
  • Annual, but can sometimes be persistant. Numerous small oval headed yellow flowers 4-6mm across.
  • Flowers: May - October.
  • Requires: Hay meadows, edges of footpaths, waste ground.
  • Height: 40-50cms.
  • 450 seeds per gramme.

    Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)

    Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
  • Native seed collected from Whitland, Carmathen. A favourite spring flower favouring shade and damp.
  • Fragrant blue-violet flowers from April to June.
  • Good in woodland in association with Red Campion and Greater Stitchwort.
  • Requires light shade.
  • Height: 30-60cm.

    Borage (Borago officinalis)

    Borage (Borago officinalis)
  • A stout, roughly hairy annual, has bright blue flowers.
  • Much loved by the bees!
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 30 - 60 cm.

    Burnet, Great (Sanguisorba officinalis)

    Burnet, Great (Sanguisorba officinalis)
  • Perennial. An unusual plant with distinctive reddish - purple oblong "knobs".
  • Looks good with Dark Mullein.
  • Flowers: June to Sept.
  • Requires: Damp sun
  • Height: 45 - 90cm.
  • Approx. 400 seeds per gramme.

    Burnet, Salad (Sanguisorba minor)

    Burnet, Salad (Sanguisorba minor)
  • Perennial. An attractive rosette of leaves which smell of cucumber when crushed.
  • Unusual purple tinged flowers.
  • Flowers: May-August
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 30cm.
  • Approx. 300 seeds per gramme.

    Buttercup, Bulbous (Ranunculus bulbosus)

    Buttercup, Bulbous (Ranunculus bulbosus)
  • Perennial. A bulbous rootstock with glossy yellow flowers, good for the sunny wild garden.
  • Flowers: March to June
  • Requires: Sunny, Free drained soil.
  • Height: 30-45cm
  • Approx. 240 seeds per gramme.

    Buttercup, Corn (Ranunculus arvensis)

    Buttercup, Corn (Ranunculus arvensis)
  • Perennial. Similar to meadow buttercup but hairless, has small flowers and spiny pods.
  • Flowers: April - July.
  • Requires: damp-moist bare ground, not acid.
  • Height: 25-50 cm.
  • Approx 80-100 seeds per gramme.

    Buttercup, Meadow (Ranunculus acris)

    Buttercup, Meadow (Ranunculus acris)
  • Perennial. The tallest and most graceful of all the butter-cups.
  • Glossy yellow flowers, superb growing in association with Ragged Robin.
  • Flowers: May on.
  • Requires: Damp sun.
  • Height: 30-90cm.
  • Approx. 600 seeds per gramme.