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A Guide to Wildflower Species

Agrimony, Common (Agrimonia eupatoria) enlarge image

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.

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    Agrimony, Fragrant (Agrimonia procera) enlarge image

    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.

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    Agrimony, Hemp (Eupatoria cannabinum) enlarge image

    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.

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    Angelica, Wild (Angelica sylvestris) enlarge image

    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
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    Avens, Water (Geum rivale) enlarge image

    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.

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    Avens, Wood (Geum urbanum) enlarge image

    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.

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    Barley Grass (Hordeum secalinum) enlarge image

    Barley Grass (Hordeum secalinum)

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

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    Bedstraw, Heath (Galium saxatile) enlarge image

    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.

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    Bedstraw, Hedge (Galium mollugo) enlarge image

    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.

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    Bedstraw, Lady's (Galium verum) enlarge image

    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.

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    Bellflower, Clustered (Campanula glomerata) enlarge image

    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 

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    Bellflower, Nettle-Leaved (Campanula trachelium) enlarge image

    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. 

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    Betony (Stachys officinalis) enlarge image

    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.

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    Birdsfoot, Greater (Lotus uliginosus) enlarge image

    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.

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    Black Medic (Medicago lupulina) enlarge image

    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.

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    Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) enlarge image

    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.

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    Borage (Borago officinalis) enlarge image

    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.

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    Burnet, Great (Sanguisorba officinalis) enlarge image

    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.

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    Burnet, Salad (Sanguisorba minor) enlarge image

    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.

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    Buttercup, Bulbous (Ranunculus bulbosus) enlarge image

    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.

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    Buttercup, Corn (Ranunculus arvensis) enlarge image

    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.

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    Buttercup, Creeping (Ranunculus repens) enlarge image

    Buttercup, Creeping (Ranunculus repens)

  • Perennial. Slightly hairy with long runners. yellow flowers 2-3cms across.
  • Flowers: May - August
  • Requires: Woods, wet-moist meadows, farmland, footpaths, wasteland - not acid.
  • Height: 30-60cm.
  • Approx 500 seeds per gramme.

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    Buttercup, Meadow (Ranunculus acris) enlarge image

    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.

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