Wildflower Plants (C-G)

Campion, Bladder (Silene vulgaris) - Plant

• 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.

Campion, Red (Silene dioica) - Plant

• 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
 

Campion, Sea (Silene maritima) - Plant

Campion, White (Silene alba) - Plant

• Perennial, pure white flowers.
• Often growing on the edge of cornfields, hedgerows and waste ground.
• Flowers: May onwards.
• Requires: Sun
• Height: To about 1m

Carrot, Wild (Daucus carota) - Plant

• 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
 

Cats Ear, Common (Hypochaeris radicata) - Plant

• 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

Chamomile, Lawn (Anthemis nobilis) - Plant

• A pleasantly aromatic plant with small, white, daisy-like flowers
• Can be used as ground cover and does look a lot like a grass lawn 
• Flowers: June-August
• Requires: Sunny position with well-drained soil
• Height: 30cm

Clover, Wild Red (Trifolium pratense) - Plant

Cowslip (Primula veris) - Plant

• Perennial. Flowers scented 10-15mm, clustered on a long, leafless stem.
  
• Deep yellow with orange markings in centre.
• Flowers: April - May.
• Requires: Dry Grassland & scrubland, not acid soils.
• Height: 15 - 30cm.

Cranesbill, Meadow (Geranium pratense) - Plant

• Perennial. Large purplish veined flowers, 30mm.
  
• Flowers usually in pairs on longer stems.
• Flowers: July - August.
• Requires: Meadows, woods. Damp-dry, none acidic soils.
• Height: 50-100cm.

Daisy, Ox-eye (Leucanthemum vulgare) - Plant

• 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 on.
• Requires: Sun well-drained soil.
• Height: 30 - 60 cm.

Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris) - Plant

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

Foxglove, Wild (Digitalis purpurea) - Plant

• Found in open woods, clearings, footpaths; on acid soils.
  
• This specie is a typical biennial, the flowering stem grows up in the second year
  
• The plant normally dies after the seeds have been dispersed. 
• Flowers: June/September
• Requires: Sun or light shade and well drained soil
• Height: 60 - 150 cm

Goatsbeard (Tragopogon pratensis) - Plant

Gypsywort (Lycopus europaeus) - Plant