Wildflower Plants All (by species)

Agrimony, Common (Agrimonia eupatoria) - Plant

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

Avens, Water (Geum rivale) - Plant

Avens, Wood (Geum urbanum) - Plant

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

Bedstraw, Hedge (Galium mollugo) - Plant

Bedstraw, Lady's (Galium verum) - Plant

Bellflower, Nettle-Leaf (Campanula trachelium) - Plant

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

Birdsfoot, Greater (Lotus uliginosus) - Plant

Burnet, Great (Sanguisorba officinalis) - Plant

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.
 

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.

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

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.

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

Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) - Plant

Hawkbit, Autumn (Leontodon autumnalis) - Plant

Hawkbit, Rough (Leontodon hispidus) - Plant

Iris, Yellow-Flag (Iris pseudacorus) - Plant

Knapweed, Common (Centaurea nigra) - Plant

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

Knapweed, Greater (Centaurea scabiosa) - Plant

• Perennial
  
• A plant with purple flowers, looks good with scabious, ox-eye daisy and musk mallow
• Flowers: July on
• Requires: Sun and well-drained soil
• Height: 30-60cm
 

Loosestrife, Purple (Lythrum salicaria) - Plant

• 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

Mallow, Musk (Malva moschata) - Plant

Marjoram, Wild (Origanum vulgare) - Plant

Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) - Plant

• 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.

Mustard , Garlic (Alliaria petiolata) - Plant

• 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.

Plantain, Hoary (Plantago media) - Plant

• 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.

Plantain, Ribwort (Plantago lanceolata) - Plant

Primrose, Wild (Primula vulgaris) - Plant

• A native perennial common throughout the British Isles.
• Grows in woods, hedgebanks and grassy places.
• Height to 20cm.
• The name comes from prima rosa - first rose.

Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi) - Plant

• 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

Sage, Wood (Teucrium scorodonia) - Plant

Sawort (Serratula tinctoria) - Plant

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

Saxifrage, Burnet (Pimpinella saxifraga) - Plant

• 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.

Scabious, Field (Knautia arvensis) - Plant

• Perennial. Blue-lilac 'pincushion' flowers in summer.
• Looks attractive with ox-eye daisies.
• A nectar plant for butterflies & bees.
• Flowers: June onwards.
• Requires: Sun and well drained soil.
• Height: 30-90 cm
  

Scabious, Small (Scabiosa columbaria) - Plant

• Perennial
  
• A compact small plant with pale blue flowers, plants are a magnet for butterflies.
• Flowers: July onwards.
• Requires: Lime-rich soil and sun.
• Height: 30cm
  

Self-Heal (Prunella vulgaris) - Plant

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

Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica) - Plant

• 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

Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) - Plant

Sorrel, Common (Rumex acetosa) - Plant

• 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.

Sorrel, Sheeps (Rumex acetosella) - Plant

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

• 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.

St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) - Plant

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

Stitchwort, Greater (Stellaria holostea) - Plant

Strawberry, Wild (Fragaria vesca) - Plant

Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) - Plant

Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) - Plant

Trefoil, Birdsfoot (Lotus corniculatus) - Plant

• Perennial. 'Eggs and Bacon'
  
• Clusters of yellow/orange pea-like flowers.
• Flowers: May on.
• Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
• Height: 15-25cm

Vetch, Kidney (Anthyllis vulneraria) - Plant

• 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.

Vetch, Tufted (Vicia cracca) - Plant

Vetchling, Meadow (Lathyrus pratensis) - Plant

Vipers Bugloss (Echium vulgare) - Plant

Woundwort, Hedge (Stachys sylvatica) - Plant

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) - Plant

• White, aromatic flowers.
• Flowers: June on.
• Requires: Sun.
• Height: 30 – 45 cm.