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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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    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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    Campion, Bladder (Silene vulgaris) enlarge image

    Campion, Bladder (Silene vulgaris)

  • Perennial. An unusual plant with white, slightly drooping flowers above a purplish veined bladder.
  • A nectar plant for butterflies.
  • Flowers: June-August.
  • Requires: well drained soil and full sun
  • Height: 22-40cm.
  • Approx. 1200 seeds per gramme.

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    Campion, Red (Silene dioica) enlarge image

    Campion, Red (Silene dioica)

  • Perennial. A lovely specimen to brighten hedgerows, meadows and shady spots in the garden.
  • Bright rose-pink flowers.
  • Flowers: From Apri
  • Requires: Part shade
  • Height: 30-60cm.
  • Approx. 800 seeds per gramme.

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    Campion, Sea (Silene maritima) enlarge image

    Campion, Sea (Silene maritima)

  • Perennial. Solitary white flowers with a net veined 'bladder' and thick waxy leaves Ideal for a rockery.
  • Flowers: June-August.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 15cm. 
  • Approx. 1200 seeds per gramme.

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    Campion, White (Silene alba) enlarge image

    Campion, White (Silene alba)

  • Perennial. Pure white flowers.
  • Often growing on the edge of cornfields or hedge-rows.
  • Flowers: From May onwards
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 15cm.
  • Approx. 800 seeds per gramme.

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    Carrot, Wild (Daucus carota) enlarge image

    Carrot, Wild (Daucus carota)

  • Biennial with white umbelliferous flowers with a pink tinge.
  • Good for drying.
  • Looks good growing with scabious.
  • Flowers: June on
  • Requires: Sun/well-drained soil.
  • Height: 30-40cm.
  • Approx. 1100 seeds per gramme.

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    Catchfly, Night-Flowering (Silene noctiflora) enlarge image

    Catchfly, Night-Flowering (Silene noctiflora)

  • Annual. Found in arable fields, pink flowers rolling shut in the daytime to show yellowish petal undersides.
  • Flowers: June to September
  • Requires: Sun, found in dry, chalk & limestone soils 
  • Height: 20 - 40cm
  • Approx. 900 seeds per gramme

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    Cats - Ear, Common (Hypochaeris radicata) enlarge image

    Cats - Ear, Common (Hypochaeris radicata)

  • Perennial. A good meadow component with rich yellow flowers and dandelion-like seed heads.
  • Flowers: May to September.
  • Requires: Sun/Part shade
  • Height: 30-45cm.
  • Approx. 1250 seeds per gramme.

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    Chamomile, Corn (Anthemis arvensis) enlarge image

    Chamomile, Corn (Anthemis arvensis)

  • An attractive annual.
  • Produces white, 'daisy' fragrant flowers.
  • Flowers: May-July.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 30 cm
  • Approx. 5000 seeds per gramme.

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    Clary, Wild (Salvia verbenaca) enlarge image

    Clary, Wild (Salvia verbenaca)

  • Perennial. Smaller specie to Meadow Clary. Stems purplish with few leaves with blue to violet flowers.
  • Flowers: June to September.
  • Requires: Dry grassland soils, hay meadows and grassy paths.
  • Height: 60 - 100cm.

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    Clover, Haresfoot (Trifolium arvense) enlarge image

    Clover, Haresfoot (Trifolium arvense)

  • Annual, but sometimes persisting. Grey, hairy plant with trefoil type narrow leaves, flowers 3-4mm long almost cylindrical heads, at first white then pink later.
  • Flowers: June - September.
  • Requires: Footpath edges, open grassland on acid soils.
  • Height: 20-30cms.
  • Approx: 3200 seeds per gramme.

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    Clover, Suckling (Trifolium dubium) enlarge image

    Clover, Suckling (Trifolium dubium)

  • Annual. Also known as Lesser Trefoil or Lesser Hop trefoil. Small yellow flowers 3mm. Often found in domestic lawns.
  • Flowers: May to September.
  • Requires: Found in hay meadows, edges of footpaths, waste ground and bare soil.
  • Height: 10 - 20 cms.
  • Approx 1500 seeds per gramme. 

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    Clover, Wild Red (Trifolium pratense) enlarge image

    Clover, Wild Red (Trifolium pratense)

  • Perennial. Trefoil leaves and pinkish-red clover knobs.
  • Essential component of the spring meadow.
  • Flowers: May on.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 10-45cm.

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    Clover, Wild White (Trifolium repens) enlarge image

    Clover, Wild White (Trifolium repens)

  • Perennial. Evergreen creeping plant, 3-lobed leaves. White flowers,10mm, smelling faintly of honey. Found in garden lawns- will stay greener during drought conditions.
  • Attracts bees and other insects when in flower.
  • Flowers: May - September.
  • Requires: Found in all types of grassland, lawns, waste ground, footpaths.
  • Height: 10-20 cm, but will adapt to being cut short in a lawn.
  • Approx 1500 seeds per gramme.

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    Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) enlarge image

    Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris)

  • Perennial. Long stalked with long-spurred blue-violet petals.
  • Flowers: June - July.
  • Requires: Woodland edges and roadsides, wet woods, dry & damp grassland.
  • Height: to about 60 cm.

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    Corn Cockle (Agrostemma githago) enlarge image

    Corn Cockle (Agrostemma githago)

  • A softly hairy annual, With beautifully intricate reddish - purple flowers.
  • Flowers: June-Aug.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 60-120 cm
  • Approx. 80 seeds per gramme.

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    Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) enlarge image

    Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

  • Annual, well known in gardens in various colour forms.
  • Has bright blue flowers.
  • Flowers: June-Aug.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 30-60cm
  • Approx. 120 seeds per gramme.

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    Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) enlarge image

    Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris)

  • Perennial. Queen Anne's lace.
  • White umbellifer flowers like lace.
  • Flowers: April-June.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 60 - 90cm
  • Approx. 200 seeds per gramme.

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    Cranesbill, Meadow (Geranium pratense) enlarge image

    Cranesbill, Meadow (Geranium pratense)

  • Perennial. Hairy plant, violet or light blue flowers are usually in pairs on long forked stems . Seed pods will appear lower down the plant while still in flower.
  • Flowers: June - September.
  • Requires: Damp meadows, along stream sides, wet woodlands.
  • Height: 60-100cm.
  • Approx 120 seeds per gramme.

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    Daisy (Bellis perennis) enlarge image

    Daisy (Bellis perennis)

  • Perennial. One of our best-known wild flowers, adorning many a lawn.
  • Flowers: All year.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 4-6cm.
  • Approx. 8000 seeds per gramme.

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    Daisy, Ox-eye (Leucanthemum vulgare) enlarge image

    Daisy, Ox-eye (Leucanthemum vulgare)

  • A well known wild flower with lovely, large, white daisy flowers.
  • Also known as the Dog Daisy.
  • Often seen in meadows and on roadsides.
  • Flowers: May onwards.
  • Requires: Sun well-drained soil.
  • Height: 30 –60 cm.
  • Approx. 3000 seeds per gramme. 

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    Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) enlarge image

    Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

  • Perennial. A golden blaze in the May meadows and banks.
  • Basal rosettes of leaves deeply lobed or toothed (dent de lion), flowers are composed of bright yellow ray - florets.
  • Flowers: April-May
  • Approx. 8000 seeds per gramme.

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    Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris) enlarge image

    Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris)

    • Perennial
    • Fern-like leaves and foamy cream flowers opening from pink buds
    • Flowers: May/August
    • Requires: Sun
    • Height: 60-90cm

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    Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) enlarge image

    Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)

    • Biennial. Leaves toothed or with entire margins. Yellow flowers 2-3cm long
    • Tolerant of infertile soils
    • Flowers: June - October
    • Requires: Sun
    • Height: Up to 1m

     

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    Figwort (Scrophularia nodosa) enlarge image

    Figwort (Scrophularia nodosa)

  • Perennial. Multi-head flowers on short stems attached to tall stems with paired leaves, flowers are greenish-brown, about 10mm long with a purple upper lip. 
  • Flowers: June - September
  • Requires: Damp woods, hedges. Damp, acid-calcareous soils.
  • Height: 60-100cm.
  • Approx 12000 seeds per gramme.

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    Fleabane, Common (Pulicaria dysenterica) enlarge image

    Fleabane, Common (Pulicaria dysenterica)

  • Perennial. Soft hairy plant with arrow shaped leaves with underground runners. Lower leaves start dying near flowering time. Yellow flower 15-30mm.
  • Flowers: July - September
  • Requires: Damp meadows, river banks, marshes.
  • Height: 30-60 cm
  • Approx 16000 seeds per gramme 

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    Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis) enlarge image

    Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis)

  • Pinkish purple or white flowers tipped with maroon.
  • Flowers: May on.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 15 – 22 cm

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    Goatsbeard (Tragopogon pratensis) enlarge image

    Goatsbeard (Tragopogon pratensis)

  • Perennial. Yellow dandelion flowers followed by impressive seed heads which are highly attractive to birds.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 30-90cm.
  • Approx. 140 seeds per gramme.

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    Gypsywort (Lycopus europaeus) enlarge image

    Gypsywort (Lycopus europaeus)

  • Perennial. Leaves are spear-shaped and sharply toothed. Unstalked flowers cluster around each pair of upper leaves on stem. White flowers with red-spotted lower lip.
  • Flowers: July - September.
  • Requires: Overgrown pond margins, reed beds, ditches, marshes, wet-damp soils.
  • Height: 50-100cm.
  • Approx 4000 seeds per gramme

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    Hard Rush (Juncus inflexus) enlarge image

    Hard Rush (Juncus inflexus)

  • Perennial. Tufted plant, stems greyish and leafless, flowers in a loose cluster.
  • Flowers: May - July.
  • Requires: Wet grassland and moors, damp-moist soils, not acid.
  • Height: 60-100cms.

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    Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) enlarge image

    Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)

  • Perennial. A well-loved wild flower also known as Scottish Bluebell.
  • Dainty blue 'bells' which attract bees
  • Recommended for the rockery.
  • Flowers: July on
  • Requires: Sun and dry sandy soil
  • Height: 15-45cm
  • Approx. 15000 seeds per gramme.

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    Hawkbit, Autumn (Leontodon autumnalis) enlarge image

    Hawkbit, Autumn (Leontodon autumnalis)

  • Perennial. Dandelion-like flowers and seed heads, a good showy meadow subject.
  • Seeds are magnets for Finches.
  • Flowers: August on.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 15cm
  • Approx. 1000 seeds per gramme.

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    Hawkbit, Rough (Leontodon hispidus) enlarge image

    Hawkbit, Rough (Leontodon hispidus)

  • Perennial. A meadow plant with yellow dandelion flowers.
  • Seed heads form a clock which attracts birds.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 15-45cm
  • Approx 900 seeds per gramme

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    Hedge Parsley, Upright (Torilis japonica) enlarge image

    Hedge Parsley, Upright (Torilis japonica)

  • Grey/green plant with pink dainty umbellifer flowers
  • Flowers: July-Sept.
  • Requires: Shade
  • Height: 45 cm
  • Approx. 500 seeds per gramme.

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    Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) enlarge image

    Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium)

  • Large white umbellifer flowers often tinged pink.
  • Seed is useful bird feed in winter
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 60-120 cm 

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    Iris, Yellow-Flag (Iris pseudacorus) enlarge image

    Iris, Yellow-Flag (Iris pseudacorus)

  • Perennial. Sword shaped leaves and bright yellow flowers, will stand in water.
  • Flowers: June-August.
  • Requires: Moist situations
  • Height: 90cm
  • Approx. 20 seeds per gramme.

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    Knapweed, Common (Centaurea nigra) enlarge image

    Knapweed, Common (Centaurea nigra)

  • Perennial. Thistle-like purple flowers, looks good with ox-eye daisies.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 30-60cm
  • Approx 500 seeds per gramme

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    Knapweed, Greater (Centaurea scabiosa) enlarge image

    Knapweed, Greater (Centaurea scabiosa)

  • Perennial. A lovely plant with large, raggy, purple flowers, looks good with scabious, ox-eye daisy and musk mallow.
  • Flowers: July on.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 30-60cm
  • Approx. 130 seeds per gramme.

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    Loose Silky-Bent (Apera spica-venti) enlarge image

    Loose Silky-Bent (Apera spica-venti)

  • Perennial. Delicate and feathery flower heads.
  • Flowers: June-July.
  • Requires: Prefers light soils
  • Height: 30 – 60 cm

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    Loosestrife, Purple (Lythrum salicaria) enlarge image

    Loosestrife, Purple (Lythrum salicaria)

  • Perennial. A lovely plant with bright red/purple spikes
  • Good in a moist border or bog garden.
  • Flowers: June-Aug
  • Requires: Damp
  • Height: 60-120cm
  • Approx. 13600 seeds per gramme.

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    Mallow, Common (Malva sylvestris) enlarge image

    Mallow, Common (Malva sylvestris)

  • Perennial. Very showy, tough plant with a profusion of pink/purple flowers.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Best on poor, well-drained soils in full sun.
  • Height: 30 – 90cm.

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    Mallow, Musk (Malva moschata) enlarge image

    Mallow, Musk (Malva moschata)

  • Perennial. White form of Musk mallow.
  • Much admired in our own garden.
  • Flowers: July-Aug.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 30 – 90 cm
  • Approx 500 seeds per gramme

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    Marigold, Corn (Chrysanthemum segetum) enlarge image

    Marigold, Corn (Chrysanthemum segetum)

  • Bright yellow daisy like flowers 5cm across.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 15 – 45 cm
  • Approx. 755 seeds per gramme.

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    Marigold, Marsh (Caltha palustris) enlarge image

    Marigold, Marsh (Caltha palustris)

  • Perennial. Hairless plant, leaves broad, shiny and heart shaped with long stalks. Flowers bright shiny yellow, to 5cm across.
  • Flowers: March - August.
  • Requires: Wet meadows or wet woodlands, stream sides, wet-damp soils.
  • Height: 25-50cm.
  • Approx 1000 seeds per gramme. 

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    Marjoram, Wild (Origanum vulgare) enlarge image

    Marjoram, Wild (Origanum vulgare)

  • Perennial. Aromatic perennial with masses dark purple buds turning to paler flowers, a good butterfly plant.
  • Flowers: July-Sept.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 30-60cm.
  • Approx. 10000 seeds per gramme.

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    Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) enlarge image

    Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)

  • Perennial. A lovely plant for the bog garden or moist border.
  • Foamy clusters of small, sweetly fragrant, cream flowers.
  • Flowers: June-Sept.
  • Requires: Sun and damp soil.
  • Approx. 1400 seeds per gramme.

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    Mignonette, Wild (Reseda lutea) enlarge image

    Mignonette, Wild (Reseda lutea)

  • Mignonette - French for 'little darling'.
  • Wavy leaves and yellow/greenish flowers.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun/light soil
  • Height: 15 – 30 cm
  • Approx. 1400 seeds per gramme.

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    Mint, Water (Mentha aquatica) enlarge image

    Mint, Water (Mentha aquatica)

  • Perennial. Aromatic plant with minty smell. Purple stems with dense flowers at the end of the stem.
  • Flowers: July to October.
  • Requires wet meadows, wet woodland marshes, river banks. Usually on calcareous soils.
  • Height: 60- 80 cm.
  • Approx 9000 seeds per gramme.

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    Mouse-Ear, Common (Cerastium fontanum) enlarge image

    Mouse-Ear, Common (Cerastium fontanum)

  • Short lived Perennial. Hairy, dull grey-green creeping plant, prostrate shoots with no flowers, erect shoots with flowers, 5-8mm. 
  • Flowers: April - October.
  • Requires: Bare areas and grassland. Damp-dry soils.
  • Height: 25-50 cm.

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    Mullein, Dark (Verbascum nigrum) enlarge image

    Mullein, Dark (Verbascum nigrum)

  • Perennial. A lovely plant - much admired in our garden.
  • A rosette of leaves throws up a spike of rich yellow flowers with orange anthers, grow in herbaceous border.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 15 – 45cm.
  • Approx. 11000 seeds per gramme.

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    Mustard , Garlic (Alliaria petiolata) enlarge image

    Mustard , Garlic (Alliaria petiolata)

  • Biennial. Also known as Hedge Garlic and Jack-by-the-hedge. Hairless plant smelling of garlic when crushed. Leaves toothed and heart-shaped, long stalked. White flowers in a leafless cluster.
  • Flowers: April - July.
  • Requires: Damp deciduous woods and scrub, hedgerows. Moist-dry soils.
  • Height: 30-80cm.
  • Approx 450 seeds per gramme.

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    Pansy, Field (Viola tricolor) enlarge image

    Pansy, Field (Viola tricolor)

  • Perennial. Flowers to 3cm tall, weakly fragrant, yellow to purple/blue or can be both.
  • Flowers: June - August.
  • Requires: Footpaths, waste ground, dunes, sun.
  • Height: Plant to 30cm, flowers to 3cm
  • Approx. 700 seeds per gramme 

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    Parsnip, Wild (Pastinaca sativa) enlarge image

    Parsnip, Wild (Pastinaca sativa)

    • Member of the Carrot family.
    • Leaves pinnate, with 2-7 pairs of irregularly toothed lobes. Petals yellow, 0.5mm long and 1mm broad.
    • Common on chalk soils
    • Flowers: July - Sept
    • Requires: Sun

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    Pignut (Conopodium majus) enlarge image

    Pignut (Conopodium majus)

  • Perennial. Flowers 1-3mm
  • Flowers: May - June
  • Requires: Grassy and shady places with moist-dry, acid - calcareous soils. 
  • Height: 30-60cm.
  • Approx 450 seeds per gramme.

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    Plantain, Hoary (Plantago media) enlarge image

    Plantain, Hoary (Plantago media)

  • A grass-like perennial with a 5cm spike of small vanilla scented pinkish-purple flowers.
  • Good reliable meadow subject.
  • Flowers: June-August.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 30 cm.
  • Approx. 2000 seeds per gramme.

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    Plantain, Ribwort (Plantago lanceolata) enlarge image

    Plantain, Ribwort (Plantago lanceolata)

  • Grass-like perennial with spikes of blackish-brown flowers with yellow anthers. Common meadow component.
  • Flowers: April on.
  • Requires: Prefers a sunny position.
  • Height: 60-90cm.
  • Approx. 400 seeds per gramme.

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    Poppy, Common (Papaver rhoeas) enlarge image

    Poppy, Common (Papaver rhoeas)

  • The poppy that used to be seen in fields everywhere.
  • An annual with deep scarlet flowers, probably our most popular wildflower and so easy to grow.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 30-60cm.
  • Approx. 11000 seeds per grammes.

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    Quaking Grass (Briza media) enlarge image

    Quaking Grass (Briza media)

  • Perennial. Known in the Midlands as 'Tommy tottles'.
  • A decorative grass with green/purplish spikelets which shake in the breeze.
  • Flowers: June to August.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 22-45cm.
  • Approx. 2000 seeds per gramme.

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    Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi) enlarge image

    Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi)

  • A lovely perennial with dainty pink flowers with 'ragged' petals.
  • Looks terrific in a wetland meadow with meadow buttercup.
  • Flowers: May-July
  • Requires: Damp soil and sun.
  • Height: 30-60cm
  • Approx. 5400 seeds per gramme.

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    Sage, Wood (Teucrium scorodonia) enlarge image

    Sage, Wood (Teucrium scorodonia)

  • Perennial. A good woodland subject with lovely crinkly, light green leaves and greenish-yellow flowers with prominent maroon stamens.
  • Flowers: July-Sept.
  • Requires: Shade.
  • Height: 30cm
  • Approx. 1600 seeds per gramme.

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    Sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) enlarge image

    Sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia)

  • Perennial. A bushy meadow plant with cone-shaped spikes Aromatic perennial with masses dark purple buds turning to paler flowers
  • A good butterfly plant.
  • Flowers: July-Sept.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 40 cm.
  • Approx 70 seeds per gramme

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    Sawort (Serratula tinctoria) enlarge image

    Sawort (Serratula tinctoria)

    • Perennial. Similar to Knapweed. Violet-red flowers size 1.5cms.
    • Flowers: July - September
    • Requires: Grasslands, open woods, damp-moist calcareous soils

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    Saxifrage, Burnet (Pimpinella saxifraga) enlarge image

    Saxifrage, Burnet (Pimpinella saxifraga)

  • Perennial. Has a finely-ribbed stem and mostly rounded leaf lobes.
  • Flowers: May - September.
  • Requires: Dry grassland, heaths and open woodland, not acid soils.
  • Height: 50 - 100cm.
  • Approx 750 seeds per gramme. 

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    Saxifrage, Greater Burnet (Pimpinella major) enlarge image

    Saxifrage, Greater Burnet (Pimpinella major)

  • Perennial .Tall hairless plant with uneven toothed leaves. Flowers white, but can be pinkish, 2-3mm.
  • Flowers: June - August
  • Requires: Rich meadows, hedges, woods, moist, acid-calcareous soil.
  • Height: 60-100cm.
  • Approx 550 seeds per gramme.

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    Saxifrage, Pepper (Silaum silaus) enlarge image

    Saxifrage, Pepper (Silaum silaus)

  • Perennial. Leaves narrow and finely toothed segments with flowers a dull yellow.
  • Flowers: June - September.
  • Requires: Sun, found in damp-moist grassland with acid - calcareous soils.
  • Height: 60-100cm

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    Scabious, Devil's Bit (Succisa pratensis) enlarge image

    Scabious, Devil's Bit (Succisa pratensis)

  • Perennial. Soft hairy stem, flowering heads about 2cms across, compact and violet-blue.
  • Flowers: June - September.
  • Requires: Poor grassland, fenland or meadows, damp-moist acid-calcareous soils.
  • Height: 50-80cm.
  • Approx 600 seeds per gramme. 

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    Scabious, Field (Knautia arvensis) enlarge image

    Scabious, Field (Knautia arvensis)

  • Perennial. Blue-lilac 'pincushion' flowers in summer.
  • Looks attractive with Ox-eye Daisies.
  • A nectar plant for butterflies and bees.
  • Flowers: June onwards.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 30-90cm
  • Approx. 130 seeds per gramme.

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    Scabious, Small (Scabiosa columbaria) enlarge image

    Scabious, Small (Scabiosa columbaria)

    • Perennial. A smaller version to Field Scabious, slightly hairy leaves.
    • Flowers: July - August.
    • Requires: Dry chalky grassland, banks.
    • Height: 60 - 70 cms
    • Approx 700 seeds per gramme. 

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    Sedge, Common (Carex nigra) enlarge image

    Sedge, Common (Carex nigra)

  • Perennial. Variable seedhead sometimes tufted, with one long spike above 2-3 smaller ones.
  • Flowers: May - September.
  • Requires: Marshes, wet-moist grassland with acid - calcareous soil.
  • Height: 15 - 50cms. 

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    Sedge, Pendulous (Carex pendula) enlarge image

    Sedge, Pendulous (Carex pendula)

  • Perennial. Tussock & rhizome forming, spreading plant, leaves to 20mm wide, drooping.
  • Flowers: May and June.
  • Requires: Woods, damp-moist soil, not acid. Light - heavy shade.
  • Height: 100-140cms.

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    Self Heal (Prunella vulgaris) enlarge image

    Self Heal (Prunella vulgaris)

  • A perennial with purple-violet flower,
  • Self-seeds readily.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun or semi-shade
  • Height: Up to 20cm.
  • Approx. 1350 seeds per gramme.

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    Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica) enlarge image

    Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica)

    • Perennial. Leaves narrow, pointed and finely toothed.
    • Small flower heads in loose clusters.
    • Flowers: July - September
    • Requires: Grasslands, marshes, damp soil. Not calcareous soils.
    • Height: 25 - 50 cms

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    Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) enlarge image

    Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis)

  • Perennial. Flowers weakly-scented and clustered in the upper leaves, can be pale pink or white. 
  • Flowers: June - September.
  • Requires: Damp-moist soils, Found along footpaths, waste ground, hedges and river banks.
  • Height: 50 -70 cms.
  • Approx 500 seeds per gramme.

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    Sorrel, Common (Rumex acetosa) enlarge image

    Sorrel, Common (Rumex acetosa)

  • Perennial. Reddish pink flower spikes, arrow shaped leaves turn crimson.
  • Component of meadows.
  • Flowers: May-Aug.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 15-60cm.
  • Approx. 650 seeds per gramme.

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    Sorrel, Sheeps (Rumex acetosella) enlarge image

    Sorrel, Sheeps (Rumex acetosella)

  • Perennial. Flower spikes are reddish pink - smaller than Common Sorrel - with daintier leaves.
  • Flowers: May-August.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 7-25cm
  • Approx. 2500 seeds per gramme.

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    St John's-Wort, Hairy (Hypericum hirsutum) enlarge image

    St John's-Wort, Hairy (Hypericum hirsutum)

    • Perennial. Hairs on stems and on both sides of leaves distinguish this specie. 
    • Flowers pale-yellow and quite large (to 1.5cm across).
    • Flowers: July - August.
    • Requires: Damp woods, scrub, shaded areas, usually on calcareous soils.
    • height: 60-100 cms.
    • Approx 12000 seeds per gramme.

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    St. John's Wort, Common (Hypericum perforatum) enlarge image

    St. John's Wort, Common (Hypericum perforatum)

  • Perennial. A shrub-like plant with clusters of golden yellow flowers.
  • Flowers: July on.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soils.
  • Height: 30-60cm
  • Approx. 9000 seeds per gramme.

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    St. John's Wort, Square-stemmed (Hypericum tetrapterum) enlarge image

    St. John's Wort, Square-stemmed (Hypericum tetrapterum)

  • Perennial. Flowers rather small and pale yellow.
  • Flowers: June - September
  • Requires: Wet grassland and damp woodland, often near water, acid-calcareous soils. 
  • Height: 30 - 60 cms.
  • Approx 6000 seeds per gramme.

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    Stitchwort, Lesser (Stellaria graminea) enlarge image

    Stitchwort, Lesser (Stellaria graminea)

  • Perennial. White flowers, 6-12mm, with narrow leaves, creeping plant.
  • Flowers: May - August.
  • Requires: Tall grassland, open woods, heathland, scrub. 
  • Prefers well-drained moist to dry soils.
  • Height: 25-60cm.
  • Approx 480 seeds per gramme. 

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    Strawberry, Wild (Fragaria vesca) enlarge image

    Strawberry, Wild (Fragaria vesca)

  • Perennial. Long rooting runners, has silky-hairy leaves with white flowers that produce tiny red fleshy head.
  • Flowers: May - June.
  • Requires: Open woods, woodland edges, scrubland, dry soils, not acid.
  • Height: to 20cm tall.
  • Approx 3000 seeds per gramme.

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    Sweet Vernal-Grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum) enlarge image

    Sweet Vernal-Grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum)

  • Perennial. Gives the characteristic smell of freshly mown hay.
  • Flowers: April - July
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 30 - 60 cm.
  • Approx. 2500 seeds per gramme.

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    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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