Wildflower Plants (A-B)

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A Guide to Wildflower Species 

Agrimony, Common (Agrimonia eupatoria) - Plant enlarge image

Agrimony, Common (Agrimonia eupatoria) - Plant

  • Perennial. A good meadow plant with decorative leaves and spikes of star-shaped yellow flowers.
  • Attracts bees and other insects.
  • Flowers: July to September
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 30-60cm

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    Angelica, Wild (Angelica sylvestris) - Plant enlarge image

    Angelica, Wild (Angelica sylvestris) - Plant

    • 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

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    Avens, Water (Geum rivale) - Plant enlarge image

    Avens, Water (Geum rivale) - Plant

  • Perennial. Pink drooping flowers with purple sepals.
  • Flowers: April to June.
  • Requires: From sun to deep shade. Likes damp places.
  • Height: 30cm.

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    Avens, Wood (Geum urbanum) - Plant enlarge image

    Avens, Wood (Geum urbanum) - Plant

  • Perennial. Small yellow flowers followed by burr-like seed heads.
  • Flowers: June onwards.
  • Requires: Deep shade.
  • Height: 30-60cm.

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    Basil, Wild (Clinopodium vulgare) - Plant enlarge image

    Basil, Wild (Clinopodium vulgare) - Plant

    • Perennial. Downy and faintly aromatic with whirls of pinkish purple, Good bee plant.
    • Flowers: March - May
    • Requires: Part/full shade
    • Height: 30-60cm

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    Bedstraw, Hedge (Galium mollugo) - Plant enlarge image

    Bedstraw, Hedge (Galium mollugo) - Plant

  • 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.

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    Bedstraw, Lady's (Galium verum) - Plant enlarge image

    Bedstraw, Lady's (Galium verum) - Plant

  • 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.

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    Bellflower, Nettle-Leaf (Campanula trachelium) - Plant enlarge image

    Bellflower, Nettle-Leaf (Campanula trachelium) - Plant

  • 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.

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    Betony (Stachys officinalis) - Plant enlarge image

    Betony (Stachys officinalis) - Plant

    • Perennial
    • Attractive leaves and many stems smothered in brilliant reddish-purple flowers
    • Adored by bees
    • Flowers: June onwards
    • Requires: Well drained sunny
    • Height: 30cm

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    Birdsfoot, Greater (Lotus uliginosus) - Plant enlarge image

    Birdsfoot, Greater (Lotus uliginosus) - Plant

  • Yellow flowers in a larger head than birdsfoot trefoil.
  • Flowers: June-Aug.
  • Requires: Moist.
  • Height: 30 cm.

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    Burnet, Great (Sanguisorba officinalis) - Plant enlarge image

    Burnet, Great (Sanguisorba officinalis) - Plant

  • 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.

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    Burnet, Salad (Sanguisorba minor) - Plant enlarge image

    Burnet, Salad (Sanguisorba minor) - Plant

    • Perennial. An attractive rosette of leaves which smell of cucumber when crushed.
    • Unusual purple tinged flowers.
    • Flowers: May-August
    • Requires: Sun
    • Height: 30cm.
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    Buttercup, Meadow (Ranunculus acris) - Plant enlarge image

    Buttercup, Meadow (Ranunculus acris) - Plant

    • 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.

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