Wildflower Seeds (T-Z)

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A Guide to Wildflower Species 

Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) enlarge image

Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)

  • Tall biennial with conical, prickly flower heads banded with purple.
  • Can be dried.
  • Looks superb with the setting sun as a background.
  • Gold Finches adore the seed.
  • Flowers: July-Aug.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 60-200cm
  • Approx 350 seeds per gramme.

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    Thyme, Wild (Thymus polytrichus) enlarge image

    Thyme, Wild (Thymus polytrichus)

  • Perennial. Slightly aromatic, ground creeping specie.Has long creeping stems with flowers in a dense forming head.
  • Flowers: June to September.
  • Requires: grassy areas with heathy sand and rocky places, can be found growing in walls. Dry acid - calcareous soils.
  • Height: 10 - 20 cm.

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    Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) enlarge image

    Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris)

  • Perennial. A plant of hedgerows and meadows with yellow/orange snap-dragon flowers.
  • Flowers: July on.
  • Requires: Sun/light shade.
  • Height: 30-60cm

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    Trefoil, Birdsfoot (Lotus corniculatus) enlarge image

    Trefoil, Birdsfoot (Lotus corniculatus)

  • Perennial. 'Eggs and Bacon' Lovely clusters of yellow/orange pea-like flowers.
  • Flowers: May on.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 15-25cm
  • Approx. 600 seeds per gramme.

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    Tufted Hair-Grass (Deschampsia caespitosa) enlarge image

    Tufted Hair-Grass (Deschampsia caespitosa)

  • Perennial. Silver/purplish spikelets on flowers 
  • Flowers: June-Aug.
  • Requires: Damp
  • Height: 30 - 120 cm.
  • Approx 7500 seeds per gramme.

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    Venus Looking-glass (Legousia speculum-veneris) enlarge image

    Venus Looking-glass (Legousia speculum-veneris)

  • Annual. Leaves oblong and wavy-edged, flowers with a tube 15-30mm long and spreading petal lobes, violet in colour.
  • Flowers: June - August
  • Requires: Arable fields and waste land, moist-dry soils.
  • Height: 30 - 40 cms.

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    Vetch, Bush (Vicia sepium) enlarge image

    Vetch, Bush (Vicia sepium)

  • Perennial. Lowest leaves without any tendrils, other leaves with branched tendrils. Flowers in small clusters of up to four. Dull violet in colour with glossy black pods.
  • Flowers: May - July
  • Requires: Damp-moist meadows, scrub, woodlands, not acid.
  • Height: to about 50cm.
  • approx 70 seeds per gramme.

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    Vetch, Common (Vicia sativa) enlarge image

    Vetch, Common (Vicia sativa)

  • Only pink succulent to be found in woods, numerous small purplish - pink flowers
  • Flowers: June-Sept.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 45 cm

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    Vetch, Kidney (Anthyllis vulneraria) enlarge image

    Vetch, Kidney (Anthyllis vulneraria)

  • Perennial. Showy yellow flowers and a hairy calyx.
  • A long flowering period.
  • Flowers: May on.
  • Requires: Open sunny position chalk or limestone preferred.
  • Height: 7-15cm.
  • Approx. 350 seeds per gramme. 

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    Vetch, Tufted (Vicia cracca) enlarge image

    Vetch, Tufted (Vicia cracca)

  • Perennial. Showy bright blue - violet flowers.
  • Flowers: June-Aug.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 60 –120 cm
  • Approx. 100 seeds per gramme.

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    Vetch, Wood (Vicia sylvatica) enlarge image

    Vetch, Wood (Vicia sylvatica)

  • Perennial. Tall, sprawling plant. Flowers 15-20mm long purple veined, seed pods black.
  • Flowers: June - August.
  • Requires: Woodlands, scrub and along cliff edges with stoney soil. Prefers moist-dry soil, not acidic.
  • Height: 70 - 100 cm.
  • Approx 50 seeds per gramme.

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    Vetchling, Grass (Lathyrus nissolia) enlarge image

    Vetchling, Grass (Lathyrus nissolia)

  • Annual. Also known as Grass Pea. Has no tendrils makes it look like a grass leaf. Flowers pink-purple with one or two flower heads on stem from main plant.
  • Flowers: May - July.
  • Requires: Meadows, shrubland, wasteland, moist-dry soil, not acid.  
  • Height: 40-60cm.

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    Vetchling, Meadow (Lathyrus pratensis) enlarge image

    Vetchling, Meadow (Lathyrus pratensis)

  • Perennial. Straggling plant, flowers weakly scented, yellow flowers 2cm long, branched tendrils. Fruit a blackish hairless pod to 4cm long. 
  • Flowers: May - August.
  • Requires: Meadows, woodland edges, shrubs. Wet-moist soils.
  • Height: 50 - 100 cms.
  • Approx 100 seeds per gramme.

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    Vipers Bugloss (Echium vulgare) enlarge image

    Vipers Bugloss (Echium vulgare)

  • Flowers on tall spikes with pink buds opening to a glorious display of vivid blue.
  • A fantastic plant, highly attractive to bees.
  • Flowers: June to Sept.
  • Requires: Well-drained soil and full sun
  • Height: 15-30cm
  • Approx. 230 seeds per gramme.

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    Wavy Hair-Grass (Deschampsia flexuosa) enlarge image

    Wavy Hair-Grass (Deschampsia flexuosa)

  • Perennial. Shining silvery purplish spikelets on slender stalks
  • Flowers: June - July
  • Requires: Acid soils
  • Height: 22 - 45 cm.
  • Approx. 3000 seeds per gramme.

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    Weld (Reseda luteola) enlarge image

    Weld (Reseda luteola)

  • Flowers in long narrow spikes, yellowish green.
  • Dark green wavy edged leaves.
  • Flowers: June-Sept
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 60-120 cm
  • Approx. 4400 seeds per gramme.

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    Woundwort, Hedge (Stachys sylvatica) enlarge image

    Woundwort, Hedge (Stachys sylvatica)

  • Perennial. Flowers dark beetroot purple with whitish blotches.
  • Loved by bees.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Shade
  • Height: 30 - 90 cm
  • Approx. 1000 seeds per gramme.

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    Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) enlarge image

    Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

  • White, aromatic flowers.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 30 – 45 cm.
  • Approx. 6000 seeds per gramme.

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    Yellow Oat-Grass (Trisetum flavascens) enlarge image

    Yellow Oat-Grass (Trisetum flavascens)

  • Perennial. Usually yellowish or variegated with yellow and purple
  • Flowers: June - July
  • Requires: tolerates a wide range of soils, drought-resistant.
  • Height 20 - 75 cm
  • Approx. 3000 seeds per gramme.

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    Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) enlarge image

    Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor)

  • Pale Yellow
  • Flowers: June - September
  • Requires: Grassland, semi parasite on grasses.
  • Height: 20 - 50 cm
  • Approx. 270 seeds per gramme.

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