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25th Anniversary Year Finding Us British Wild Flower Plants Burlingham Gardens 31 Main Road North Burlingham Norfolk NR13 4TA

Phone / Fax: (01603) 716615

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Website: http://www.wildflowers.co.uk

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Monday to Thursday: 10.00am - 4.00pm Friday: 10.00am - 2.30pm

Please note that we are no longer open at weekends or Bank Holidays.

Catalogue Contents Contact & Contents Page 02 About Us Page 03 Mixed Trays Pages 04-05 Reed Beds Page 06 Green Roofs Page 07 Wildflower Seeds Page 08 Planting Guide Pages 09-10 Attracting Wildlife Page 11 Rabbit-Proof Plants Page 12 List of Plants Pages 13-50 Scientific Name Look Up Pages 51-58 Terms & Conditions Page 59

www.wildflowers.co.uk 2 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 About Us Welcome.... About Our Plants

We are a family-run nursery, situated in Norfolk on a Our species are available most of the year in: six acre site. We currently stock over 350 species of 3 native plants and supply to all sectors of the industry Plugs: Young plants in 55cm cells with good rootstock. on a trade and retail basis. We are the largest grower of native plants in the UK and possibly Europe.

Provenance

Our species are drawn from either our own seed collections or from known provenance native sources. We comply with the Flora Locale Code of Practice. Where known provenance is important to your project please contact us for a declaration.

Our plugs are generally sold in trays of 52 or 104 as either single species or as a mixed pack. Our plugs are Who do we Supply ? generally bigger than most that you may have seen and are usually referred to as “jumbo” plugs within the Our customers are from all three sectors and we pride industry. ourselves on helping to provide all our customers, big and small with what they need. Our online shop allows you to buy plugs in multiples of 8 per species to make up your own selections. We supply and contract-grow plants for gardens at most of the annual shows. Gardens supplied by us have won 9cm (Half-Litre) Pots: Established plants which over a dozen medals at Chelsea, Hampton Court and can be purchased singly or as part pre-selected packs other internationally acclaimed plant and garden shows. containing 18 or 24 plants.

Our plants have appeared on TV shows, in two 1 or 2 Litre Pots: Sometimes available from stock, can Hollywood Films, in books, magazines and newspapers. be grown to order for larger quantities. We are regularly cited by “celebrity” gardeners as a source of high quality plants. All our plants are grown in peat-free compost and are propogated with the minimal use of chemical agents. On a larger scale, we have provided plants to road We actively use biological pest control on our nursery improvement works, land reclamation, water treatment in order to protect the wildlife of our local area and that reed beds, SUDS projects and coastal reclamation of your site. projects. We are able to send plants to all areas of the UK In recent years we have been very active in the area of and Europe. Please contact us if you have specific green roofs and we supply a large number of species for both small and large projects. We work closely with a requirements. couple of green roof installers.

More recently we have supplied a large number of plants to the London 2012 Olympics Athlete’s Village and the post-games regeneration project.

We also value our involvement with community, conservation and charity groups. We have close ties with Wildlife Trusts, Butterfly Conservation, Buglife, Lord Mayor of London’s Curry Lunch - 2012 and the RSPB. www.wildflowers.co.uk 3 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Mixed Trays of Plugs & Pots

Take the hassle out of wildflower planting!

Let us select the plants for you! We have trays for most soil types and Our mixed trays come in two sizes, half or full: conditions. You can also buy plants Full Tray - 104 plugs (8 plants each of 13 species) especially designed to attract beneficial Half Tray - 52 plugs (4 plants each of 13 species) insects and birds to your garden. We choose the plants, based on availability, at the time of ordering. If you have specific requirements then please let us know. These trays are also perfect for community and school planting projects! How Many Do I Need?

Each species is labelled We generally recommend that you plant 5 plugs per square metre. If you follow that protocol then each of the mixed trays will cover 20 m2. For large areas you may want to consider planting in swathes.

Area Conversions: We also do Pots! 1 ft2 = 0.09 m2 If you want to buy larger plants in 1 yd2 = 0.84 m2 smaller numbers then we have a 1 Acre = 4,047 m2 solution for you. You can buy 18 or 24 1 Hectare = 10,000 m2 pots matched to these habitats! My Own Selection? You do not have to go with our selections. If you know what you want then you can order strips of 8 plugs per species. This can be done at our online shop or over the phone. The price is the same whether you buy the pre-mixed trays or select your own.

Plugs Pots

Plugs are 6cm Pots are 9cm deep deep and 4cm and 9cm wide. diameter with Volume is a full established root half-litre. stock. Ready for planting.

www.wildflowers.co.uk 4 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 5 List of Mixed Trays We choose the plants based on availability. For current species lists per selection please visit our website.

Tray Code Suitable Habitat MT1 Sunny MT2 Semi-Shade MT3 Shade MT4 Wet or Damp MT5 Coastal MT6 Chalk / Limestone Soil MT7 Sandy Soil MT8 Clay Soil MT9 Loamy Soil MT10 Acid Soil MT11 To Attract Birds MT12 Butterflies / Nectar Producing MT13 Lawns MT13a Fine Lawns (no rye grass) MT14 Rocks or Paving MT15 Strong Colours MT16 Boosting Four Colours MT17 Wildlife Pack A MT18 Wildlife Pack B MT19 School Selection (Flowers in Spring & Autumn) MT20 Wildlife Pond Marginals MT21 To Attract Bumblebees MT23 Tortoise Food Plants MT24 Wild Grasses MT25 Rushes and Sedges MT30 Green Roof Selection* MT40 Purple Border Selection MT41 Red Border Selection MT42 White Border Selection MT43 Yellow Border Selection MT50 Edible Plants Selection MT51 Herbal Remedy Selection

*See page 7 for more information about Green Roofing.

4 www.wildflowers.co.uk 5 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Reed Beds Reed Beds

Reed beds can be used to treat domestic sewage, greywater and industial waste waters. This involves first removing large solid material, or turning it into liquid, and then passing the liquid portion through one or more reed beds. The resulting discharge water is clean.

The principal species in these beds is common reed (Phragmites australis) but other native plants can be used in filtration beds and have the added benefit of increasing biodiversity, please contact us for more details.

Benefits of Reed Beds:

- Removal of phosphorus, nitrogen and heavy metals. - Contribute to the biodiversity of the area by serving as a refuge for wildlife. - Cleaning capacity is unaffected by seasonal weather conditions. - Requires minimum maintenance. - Durable, long lasting and self regenerating.

www.wildflowers.co.uk 6 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Green Roofs Green roofs have grown in popularity over the last couple of years (we are even putting one on our new office!) and where they were traditionally stocked with sedum species we have seen a move towards using native planting of a more diverse nature.

We advocate using native plants for green roof projects. Selected drought-tolerant plants will do very well in this environment and will add colour, interest and improve biodiversity by attracting insects and birds.

Inherent benefits of Green roofs: Green roofs can be used just about anywhere. We have helped customers plant roofs - Increased roof life span. for sheds and garages as well as entire - Reduced storm water run off. developments covering hundreds of square - Filter pollutants and CO2 from the air. metres. If you need any help with your project - Filter pollutants from the rainwater. please contact us. - Increase biodiversity in built-up areas. - Improve efficiency of heating and cooling. We can also help locate a green roof fitter to - Reduce the uban heat-island effect. help if you don’t want to do it yourself.

We can supply many plants for your green roof I project. please contact us for more information. mage copyright Mark Bennetton - Landmark Living Roofs I mage copyright John Little - The Grass Roof Company

Image copyright John Little - The Grass Roof Company

Image copyright Justin Bere Don’t forget: Green roofs enhance the performance of Solar Panels by decreasing the ambient temperature.

www.wildflowers.co.uk 7 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Wildflower Seeds Tradionally we have only supplied wildflower plugs and pots, but 2013 is the year that this all changed. After considerable investment in seed cleaning and processing equipment we are now able to process the seed from our own large plant stocks and offer them for sale. Once cleaned and processed our seed is stored in a bespoke state-of the-art humidity and temperature controlled store room, designed in collaberation with the Millenium Seed bank at Kew.

All seed is tested for viability to our own exacting standards in our new laboratory.

We will be offering seeds for sale in small retail-sized packets via our online shop and also larger commercial sizes for our trade customers. This will include pure species packs and also common mixes.

Remember, all our seed is either taken from our own nursery stock or collected from the wild in conjunction with partner agencies such as Wildlife Trusts amd County Councils who give us permission to do so.

If you would like to know more information about our seed and obtain a quote then please get in touch or to buy smaller quantities online visit our website.

Yellow Rattle - Rhinanthus minor

Use yellow rattle to restrict the growth of perennial grasses and allow other native species to compete. We can supply yellow rattle seed which should be used at a rate of 5g per square metre in the autumn over scarified grass. Please contact us for more information.

Yellow rattle is available via our online shop.

www.wildflowers.co.uk 8 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Planting Guides

Do you have bare soil or grass?

Bare Soil

Allow 5 plugs to a square metre and plant randomly, putting 3 of the same species together if you can. The shorter or smaller species e.g. cowslip or centaury look best in clumps of 5, the taller ones like knapweeds or oxeye daisies look best in groups of 2 or 3 to a square metre.

If you want instant colour, put your plugs in and then scatter seed of cornfield annuals over the whole area - these will give a good show in the first year but die out as the perennials take hold.

You can scatter a meadow mix over the whole area to add grasses and more perennials if you wish - a cheap and cheerful seed mix is best. The more expensive, with more species, often fails to give the desired results and, although any mixture may fail, you lose less money and often the results are as good.

Planting in Grass

First cut the grass as low as you can get it. If there is a ‘thatch’ then scarify it (you need to get the plugs into contact with the soil).

There should be no reason to kill the grass first before planting, although very modern tough lawn mixes may out- compete the wildflowers. In general, if your grass is wild or pre-1970 it will be ok to plant straight into it. If you are worried that it is very vigorous; try mowing, removing the cuttings, scarifying, and then rake yellow rattle seed (Rhinanthus minor) into the grass (see page 8). This is a semi - parasite on grass and once established reduces the vigour of the grass by up to 50%. All ancient meadows have this plant.

You cannot sow wild flower seed into established grass. It doesn’t work!

When do you plant?

The best time to plant is autumn to late spring, but the ground needs to be cool and damp. September is a good, if autumn has set in, otherwise it is much better to wait. The main losses are due to drying out before, during or just after planting. The plugs need to be kept moist at all times. If a dry spell sets in within 6 weeks of planting you must water and water well.

Marginal and wetland species are the only plants you should consider planting from may to September unless you have irrigation or are prepared to water. Deep-water aquatics, like oxygenators should only be planted when the water temperature is rising i.e. spring to early summer. Planting when water temperature is falling will lead to losses.

www.wildflowers.co.uk 9 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 How to Help your Wildflowers Develop

Once planted you must keep your plugs watered for at least 6 weeks, if you plant autumn to May, the rain should do this for you.

If planting into established grass, mow as normal for lawns, but with the blades at the highest setting for the first year. Just mow over the grass under control whilst letting your wildflowers build up good root systems and basal leaves. Once your plants are obviously established you can stop mowing and let them flower. This should be around end of July or August of the year after planting i.e. if planted in April 2013 let flower July to August 2013. In autumn of the first year mow the whole area (leave for a few days if there are seed heads and you want the seed to drop) and rake off. If you have a mulching mower you can leave the cuttings provided they are green and not dry or woody as they will not decompose quickly at this stage and may rot the young plants beneath them.

Future Management Regimes

Frequently asked when to mow? The answer is whenever you want to! The regimes of spring and summer meadows is an economic one. The livestock would be moved from the rich pas- tures on to the poorer pastures as the season allowed, so in a good growing year two cuts could be achieved on the hay meadows.

Until mid-August if you mow your meadow it will recover and flower again in around 8 weeks. If you have an event planned count backwards 8 weeks and mow! It should look good just when you want it.

Always do a cut and clear up in autumn early winter, and remove all the cuttings but beware many insects and small mammals spend the cold winter months tucked up in the bases of tussocks of dry grass, so try to leave a bit of rough stuff till spring.

Yellow Horned Poppy - Glaucium flavum

Greater Knapweed - Centaurea scabiosa

www.wildflowers.co.uk 10 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 How to Increase the Wildlife in Your Garden

Mankinds actions over the last few hundred years has lead to many species becoming extinct, now almost on a daily basis.

There might be little or nothing we can do to protect the rain forests, but closer to home on farms and in gardens we can help those species struggling on the brink. We have become experts at feeding the birds, and putting up nest boxes, now it is time to see the big picture and start helping all forms of life likely to visit your garden.

Many garden plants provide nectar, fast food for many insects. The equivalent of a drive through restaurant, but to stay in your garden they have more specific needs. You need to provide homes. Safe places to live, rest, feed and reproduce. A wild area no matter how small, trees if you have room, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, grasses and wild flowers, compost heaps and untidy corners all will attract insects in.

To keep them in your garden you will need to provide special plants. For butterflies and moths you will need to provide their larval food plants. Some species are very particular, laying their eggs on only one species of plant. The Small Blue Butterfly for instance must have Kidney Vetch. Recent research suggests the butterfly can locate its food plant from great distances. In the Midlands a new colony of the Small Blue has established just one year after the Kidney Vetch was planted. The nearest colony is several miles away!

Bird’s Foot trefoil is food plant to several species, the Common Blue, Clouded Yellow, and Dingy Skipper Butterflies, and conversely, the Campion Moth will choose several species of Silene, White Campion, Red Campion, Bladder campion, or even Lychnis species such as Ragged Robin.

Bumblebees are also endangered in Great Britain, one species has already become extinct, Bombus subterraneus. Mostly this due to species rich meadows being lost. A bumblebee will fly 400 metres to forage for nectar and pollen. They must havea continuous supply from early spring to late autumn. They love all the clover flowers, red, white and sulphur, but these don’t flower until June. Plant for year round supplies. Forgetmenots, Violets, and Primroses, Oxlips, Cowslips, Campions, Bluebells, (make sure they are the native Hyacinthoides non-scripta not Spanish or hybrids), Bellflowers, Foxgloves, Knapweeds, Chamomile, Valerian, Meadowsweet and Purple Loosestrife, many others will feed the bees and butterflies and give you more pleasure from your garden.

www.wildflowers.co.uk 11 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Rabbit-Proof Plants

In general rabbits will bite off anything grass- like.

This includes any plant putting up a spike-like flower stem.

They may not eat it having bitten it off, but they don’t learn from taste and will bite off the next flower stem also.

Below is a list of plants that the rabbits on our nursery do not do much damage to (if hungry they will eat anything though)

Lily of the Valley Alexanders Lesser Spearwort Basil Marjoram Betony Marsh Marigold Birds Foot Trefoil Marsh Woundwort Black Medick Meadow Cranesbill Bluebell Meadow Rue Blue Water Speedwell Oxeye Daisy Bugle Pink Water Speedwell Buttercups Poppies Common Catsear Red Clover Cow Parsley Rest Harrow Everlasting Sweet Pea Selfheal Fennel Skullcap Figwort Spiny Rest Harrow Foxglove St Johns Worts Germanders Speedwell Stinking Iris Gipsywort Tree Lupin Gt Birds Foot Trefoil Vetches Gt Spearwort Water mint Hawkweed Wild Clematis Hedge Woundwort Wood Anenome Hemlock Water Dropwort Woodsage Herb Robert Woody Nightshade Kidney Vetch Yarrow Lady’s Bedstraw Yellow Toadflax Lesser Skullcap Yellow loosestrife

www.wildflowers.co.uk 12 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 All our native plants will be host to some species of insect List of Plants by Habitat - if you know of any we have missed, please tell us! 001 AARONS ROD 006 BASIL Verbascum thapsus Clinopodium vulgare Sunny

A biennial for sunny sites. Height 30-60cm. A perennial of sunny site. Height 15-35cm. Rosy Plant 5 per square metre. Yellow flowers June- pink flowers all July-September. Will grow well August. Dies after flowering but seeds profusely. in grass for a flowering lawn. Excellent nectar Food plant of the Mullein Moth. plant that will withstand drought.

Yellow Mullein Moth Pink

002 AGRIMONY 007 BIRD’S FOOT TREFOIL Agrimonia eupatoria Lotus corniculatus

A perennial of sunny sites, height 30-60cm. 15-30cm tall, spreading perennial with yellow Golden yellow flowers June-October. Native to flowers which are rich in nectar and distinctive hedge banks, roadsides and edges of fields. Seeds seed pods. Flowers from late June through to loved by Finches. Water well before planting. Autumn. Excellent bee plant.

Common Blue, clouded yellow, wood Yellow Large Grizzled Skipper Yellow white, green hairstreak, silver studded blue, dingy skipper. 003 ALPINE MEADOW RUE 008 BLACK MEDICK Thalictrum alpinum Medicago lupulina

A creeping perennial of dry, grassy and rocky Creeping perennial to 25cm tall. Compact places on mountains. Rarely taller than 15cm yellow flower heads like those of the Clovers. but dark green leaves are pretty in dry rocks or Native on grasslands and roadsides, especially paving. Pale yellow flowers June - August. on base-rich soils.

Yellow Six Spot Burnet Moth Yellow Mother Shipton Moth

004 AUTUMN HAWKBIT 009 BLADDER CAMPION Leontodon autumnalis Silene vulgaris

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 15-30cm. Bright yellow, dandelion-like flowers July- A perennial for sunny sites. Height 25-40cm. October. Native of meadows, pastures, waysides White flowers with lavender stamens May- and screeds. A good late nectar plant. September.

Yellow Dark-veined White White Pug moth. Campion Moth

005 AUTUMN SQUILL 010 BLUE FLEABANE Scilla autumnalis Erigeron acer

A bulbous perennial with grass-like leaves. 15- 20cm tall at flowering, magenta flowers, August- A biennial/perennial for sunny sites. Height 30- October. Rare in mainland Britain, but found 40cm. Blue and yellow flowers July-August. usually near to the coast along South Coast from Locally common plants of dry grassy places, Cornwall to Essex in dry grassy habitats. dunes and walls, usually on lime.

Magenta Blue Small Marbeld Moth

www.wildflowers.co.uk 13 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 011 BLUE MOOR GRASS 016 CENTAURY Sesleria caerulea Centaurium erythraea Sunny Sunny

Foliage is blue on the surface; dark green on the 10-20cm biennial with pretty pink flowers. A underside; medium blade width 20-25 cm in member of the gentian family, growing in shallow height soils and sand dunes. Flowers July/August.

Purple Pink

BROAD-LEAVED EVERLASTING 012 017 CHAMOMILE SWEET PEA Lathyrus latifolius Chamaemelum nobile

A tall, clambering perennial, growing to 3m. Pink flowers, July - August. Introduced to Britain and A creeping perennial, strongly scented leaves. naturalized in rough grassy habitats, hedgerows Used for Chamomile lawns. White flowers June/ and embankments hence the common name July. A native of short grassy places in Southern Railway Pea. Britain.

Pink Bumblebees White Chamomile Shark Moth

013 BROOM 018 CHEDDAR PINK Cytisus scoparius Dianthus gratianopolitanus Brooms tolerate (and often thrive best in) poor soils and growing conditions. In cultivation they need little care, though they need good drainage A short, densely-tufted perennial with blue-green and perform poorly on wet soils. In late summer, leaves and really fragrant pink flowers, June its pea-pod like seed capsules burst open, often - July. Found on limestone cliffs and rocks in with an audible pop, spreading seed from the Cheddar Gorge. parent plant. It makes a shrub about 1–3m tall.

Yellow Spanish Carpet Moth Pink Varied Coronet Moth Lychnis moth.

014 CARLINE THISTLE 019 CHICORY Carlina vulgaris Chicorum intybus

A tall perennial to 1m often flopping over A biennial for sunny sites. Height 10-60cm. neighbouring plants. Bright blue flowers June- Rich in nectar and loved by bees. Straw yellow September. The root is used as a coffee substitute. flowers July-October. Native of calcareous Doubtfully native but common over roadside grassland, locally common. verges on calcerous soils.

Yellow Blue

015 CATMINT 020 CLUSTERED BELLFLOWER Nepeta cataria Campanula glomerata

30-40cm tall, branched, woolly perennial, mint scented. Flowers white with purple spots, June - A perennial of sunny sites. Height 15-30cm. September. Found in hedgerows, roadsides and Deep purple flowers May-September. A chalk waysides, banks and rocky places, usually on downland plant, which will flourish in any sunny calcareous soils. A good bee plant. site. Excellent bee plant.

White Purple www.wildflowers.co.uk 14 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 15 021 COLTSFOOT 026 CORN CHAMOMILE Tussilago farfara Anthemis arvensis Sunny Sunny

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 15-30cm. Yellow flowers February-April, followed by Growing to 50cm tall, an annual/biennial of corn seed heads like dandelions. Good on poor soils, fields and open ground. White daisy flowers June creeping to form large clumps. One of the first onwards, and fragrant grey-green foliage. A good nectar plants to flower. bee plant.

Yellow Grizzled Skipper White

022 COMMON BENT 027 CORN MARIGOLD Agrostis capillaris Chrysanthemum segetum

An annual for sunny sites. Height 30-60cm. A rhizomatous perennial grass found throughout Bright yellow flowers June-August. A locally Britain in all kinds of grassy places. A typical common weed of acid arable soils throughout meadow grass growing to 45cm high. the British Isles.

Green Yellow Chamomile Shark Moth

023 COMMON CATSEAR 028 CORNCOCKLE Hypochaeris radicata Agrostema githago

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 15-30cm. 30-100cm tall annual, with bright magenta Yellow dandelion flowers June-October. A good pink flowers June - August. A cornfield weed nectar plant and excellent drought survivor. introduced in ancient times with grain. A good Native of meadows and pastures, grassy dunes nectar plant for butterflies, which will self-seed and waysides. readily.

Yellow Feathered Footman Moth Magenta

024 COMMON MALLOW 029 CORNFLOWER Malva sylvestris Centaurea cyanus

A large, spreading perennial for sunny sites. An annual of cornfields. Bright blue flowers May Height 45-90cm. Bright pink saucer-like flowers - September. 20-50cm tall. Once common now July-September. Native of waste spaces and becoming very rare. Nectar rich for Honey bees roadsides. and Bumblebees. Well drained sunny site.

Painted Lady, Mallow Skipper and Mallow Pink Blue Moths.

025 COMMON VETCH 030 COWSLIP Vicia sativa Primula veris

An annual for sunny sites. Height 15-40cm. A perennial for sunny sites. Height 10-15cm. Pink/purple flowers June onwards. Can be erect, Yellow flowers May-June. Native of meadows trailing or scrambling. Short-lived but seeds and pastures on basic and especially calcareous itself well. A good bee plant. soils.

Duke of Burgundy Fritillary Butterfly, Plain Pink Pea Moth Yellow Clay and Northern Rustic Moths.

14 www.wildflowers.co.uk 15 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 031 CREEPING CINQUEFOIL 036 DANDELION Potentilla reptans Taraxacum officinale Sunny Sunny

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 10-20cm. A much more delicate version of Silverweed. Yellow flowers March-October. Native of Long trailing stems and green leaves. Bright pastures, meadows, lawns, waste places and yellow flowers May - September. Native of waysides. The leaves make good salad and the rough ground, open grassland and dunes. roots baked as a coffee substitute.

Purple-Bordered Gold Moth. Straw Belle Yellow Yellow Garden Tiger Moth. Clouded Buff Moth Moth

032 CRESTED DOG’S TAIL 037 DARK MULLEIN Cynosurus crisatus Verbascum nigrum

A perennial of grassy places over a great range of 30-60cm tall, more dainty than Moth Mullein soils. Height 15-75cm. . Flowers June-August. and Arrons Rod. Yellow flowers with purple native to grassland on acid or basic soils. anthers June - September.

Brown Meadow Brown Butterfly Yellow Mullein Moth. Striped Lychnis Moth

033 CRESTED HAIR GRASS 038 DEPTFORD PINK Koeleria macrantha Dianthus armeria A herbaceous annual or biennial plant growing to 60 cm tall. The leaves are dark green and A native of chalk/limestone and base rich sandy slender, up to 5 cm long. The flowers are 8–15 soils, sometimes on heaths and sand dunes. mm diameter, with five petals, bright reddish- It makes small tufts which can survive cold pink; they are produced in small clusters at the weather. top of the stems from early to late summer. Like a miniature sweet william.

Green Pink

034 CROW GARLIC 039 DOWNY WOUNDWORT Allium vineale Stachys germanica

A densely pubescent biennial or short lived A bulbous perennial of sunny sites, height 20- perennial. Forms 20-30cm clumps with pink/ 40cm. Pink, greenish white flowers April-July. purple flowers June onwards. An excellent nectar A native of dry grassy places often on chalk or plant for bees, and the bank voles adore the seed. limestone. This plant is of garden origin, please keep it there.

Pink Leek Moth Pink

035 DAISY 040 DROPWORT Bellis perennis Filipendula vulgaris

The well-known daisy of lawns. Height 10cm. A perennial for sunny sites. Height 20-40cm. White flowers all summer March-October. A Pretty cream and pink flowers May-August. must for turning a green lawn into a wild flower Excellent nectar plant. A dwarf version of meadow. Meadowsweet for dry sunny soils.

Scarce Darter Moth. Brown Spot Pinion White Bordered Straw moth, Red Carpet moth Pink Moth www.wildflowers.co.uk 16 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 17 041 DYERS GREENWEED 046 FIELD SCABIOUS Genista tinctoria Knautia arvensis Sunny Sunny

A shrubby member of the pea family, with bright yellow flowers July – September. A useful bee A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-60cm. plant a. Yellow and green dyes can be extracted Pale blue flowers July-September. A good from this plant. Origin Dorset. butterfly nectar plant.

Yellow Light Brocade Moth Blue Marsh Fritilary

042 ELECAMPANE 047 FOX & CUBS Inula helenium Pilosella aurantiaca

Perennial of sunny sites, 60-150cm. Bright A perennial for sunny sites. Height 20-30cm. yellow sunflowers July-August. Needs lots of Orange flowers June-August. Spreads by space but a spectacular plant in full flower. Good short runners. A good border plant but it is an nectar plant. Introduced. introduction - keep it in the garden.

Yellow Orange The Shears Moth

043 FIELD FORGETMENOT 048 FRAGRANT EVENING PRIMROSE Myosotis arvensis Oenothera stricta

The flowers are 2-5 mm and clearly pale blue. They stand in small groups dense at each other. 30-45cm tall sometimes up to 1 metre. Yellow Flowering late spring, setting seed and seed flowers June onwards. Flowers and sepals often germinate very quickly for several generations tinged with red. Introduced and found on sunny a year. sites and coastal areas.

Blue Crimson Spreckled Moth Yellow Elephant Hawk Moth

044 FIELD MINT 049 GOATS BEARD Mentha arvensis Tragopogon pratensis

A biennial for sunny sites. Height 30-60cm. 12 - 15 cm hairy perennial with a sweet scent . Yellow flowers June-July, followed by giant seed Flowers lilac or white sometimes pink in n dense clocks. The flowers close around noon, hence walls. Flowering August - September. Damp the alternative name ‘Jack go to bed at noon’. habitats fields and open woodlands. Native to meadows, pastures, dunes, roadsides and waste places.

White Burnished grass Moth Yellow

045 FIELD POPPY 050 GOATS RUE Papaver rhoeas Galega officianalis

Erect annual associated with corn fields. Bright An introduced perennial much naturalized on scarlet red flowers June - August. The red poppy southern verges. A rich nectar plant loved by of remembrance. bees and Moths.

Red Pink

16 www.wildflowers.co.uk 17 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 051 GOLDENROD 056 HAIRY VIOLET Solidago virgaurea Viola hirta Sunny Sunny A Perennial with large clusters of small yellow The hairy violet is usually found on calcareous flowers that appear from the end of summer until grasslands, often among rocks and in scrubby frost. They are in full bloom from in August areas. The flowers are pale violet-blue and and October, and signal the end of summer. unscented. Both the flowers and the leaves grow Propagation is by wind-disseminated seed or by straight up from the base and seeds are buried underground rhizomes. Seeds distribute by wind. around the plant.

Yellow Bleached Pug Moth Purple Silverwashed Fritillary

052 GORSE 057 HAREBELL Ulex europeus Campanula rotundifolia

A spiny evergreen shrub. Height 60-200cm. Yellow coconut scented flowers March-June. A perennial of sunny sites from damp peat to Found on rough grasslands and heaths, mostly dry chalk. Height 15-30cm. Blue dainty flowers on acid soils. May-September. The bluebell of Scotland.

yellow Blue Sweet Gale Moth

053 GREAT BURNET 058 HAWKWEED Sanguisorba officinalis Hieracium agg.

A perennial of sun or semi-shade. Height 30- A perennial for sunny sites Height 30-40cm. 150cm. Reddish flowers June-September and Yellow dandelion flowers June-August. There look like magenta raspberries. Native of damp are at least 250 micro species of hawkweed so grassland. far identified in Great Britain.

Shark Moth. Shears Moth. Broad-barred Red Yellow White Moth

054 GREATER CELANDINE 059 HEARTSEASE - WILD PANSY Chelidonium majus Viola tricolor

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-90cm. An annual/short lived perennial for sunny sites. Plant 5 per square metre . Yellow flowers Height 15-20cm. Purple blotched with yellow May-July. A frequent plant of banks, hedgerows flowers April-August. Will usually seed itself and walls, chiefly near habitations. Visited by well. Good nectar plant and the flowers can be pollen-collecting flies and bees. used to decorate cakes.

Yellow Yellow Small Pearl-Bordered Fritilary

055 GREATER KNAPWEED 060 HEATH SPEEDWELL Centaurea scabiosa Veronica officinalis

A perennial of sunny sites. Height 60-100cm. A creeping perennial for sunny sites . Lilac Ragged purple flowers July-September. A late flowers June-September. Usually found in open nectar plant much loved by bees and butterflies, woods and heaths, normally on acid or neutral and later by seed eating birds. soils. A good nectar plant.

Purple Scarce Forester Moth Purple Heath Fritilary www.wildflowers.co.uk 18 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 19 061 HEATH WOODRUSH 066 HORSESHOE VETCH Luzula multiflora Hippocrepis comosa Sunny Sunny

A perennial of acid heaths, moors and woods Clear, bright yellow flowers which provide nectar throughout Britain. Height 20-40cm. . Tufted and pollen for insects, particularly bumble bees. with brown-green flowers April-June. Sole food plant of the Chalkhill Blue butterfly.

Brown Small Wainscott Moth Yellow Common Blue, Chalkhill Blue butterfly

062 HOARY CINQUEFOIL 067 IVY-LEAVED TOADFLAX Potentilla argentea Cymbalaria muralis

A creeping perennial of sunny sites which grows A perennial for sunny sites. Height 15cm. Yellow on rocks and walls. Stems 10-80cm with tiny ivy- flowers June-July. Native of dry sandy grassland. like leaves. . Small purple and yellow flowers all Whole plant is an attractive silver colour, cut summer. The mature seed pods form away from back after flowering to flower in autumn. light to find damp crevices in which to grow.

Yellow Purple

063 HOARY PLANTAIN 068 JACOBS LADDER Plantago media Polemonium caeruleum

Perennial of sunny sites, height 15-30cm. White A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-90cm. and fragrant flowers May-August. Found in dry Dark purple flowers June-July. A common garden grassy habitats and waste places, on calcareous plant but rare in the wild, found in Northern soils. England on limestone soils.

White Treble Lines Moth Purple

064 HOLY GRASS 069 KIDNEY VETCH Hieronchloe odorata Anthyllis vulneraria

A rare grass in Britain usually found growing near ancient Religious sites due to its flower use. A perennial for dry sites. Height 15-30cm. The dried grass smells sweetly of new mown hay Woolly yellow flowers June-August. A rich and was used for bedding and strewing. Flowers source of nectar. Hates being wet in winter - give early March to April but keeps seed until August good drainage. or September.

Green Yellow Six-Belted Clearwing. Small Blue

065 HONEYSUCKLE 070 LADY’S BEDSTRAW Lonicera periclymenum Galium verum

The flowers are creamy white or yellowish, trumpet shaped and very sweet lemon scent A perennial for sunny sites Low growing (May - July). The plant is usually pollinated by spreading ground cover. Stems 15-40cm. moths or long-tongued bees and develops bright Yellow flowers July-August, then black seeds red berries. into autumn.

Riband Wave Moth. Oblique Striped Moth. White Early Grey Moth Yellow Bedstraw Hawk Moth

18 www.wildflowers.co.uk 19 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 071 LADY’S MANTLE 076 LESSER TREFOIL Alchemilla vulgaris Trifolium dubium Sunny Sunny

A Perennial growing from 10 to 30cm high. The stem at first is green or blue-green turning A small annual of dry ground with small clover- to reddish or brownish later. The small, green like leaves. Yellow pea-type flowers. Accepted flowers grow in loose panicles from May to as the plant to represent the Irish Shamrock. October.

Green Red Carpet Moth. Alpine Grizzled Skipper Yellow

072 LESSER KNAPWEED 077 LUCERNE Centaurea nigra Medicago sativa

The American name is Alfalfa and has been A perennial of sunny sites. Height 40-60cm. widely grown in Britain as a fodder crop. It is Mauve thistle like flowers July-September. a rich nectar source ideal for bumblebees. The Excellent nectar provider for bees and butterflies, flowers are almost my favourite colour purple and seed supply for finches. and flower from June to August. Can grow up to 18m but normally around 60cm.

Scarce Forrester Moth. Lime-specked Pug Purple Purple Moth

Sunny 073 LESSER MEADOW RUE 078 MAIDEN PINK Thalictrum minus Dianthus deltoides

Tufted, rhizomatous perennial with fern-like, hairless, finely cut leaves. Produces tiny yellow- A perennial for sunny sites. Height 10-20cm. green flowers that turn brown and are persistent Rose-pink flowers June-September. A plant of for many months. The seeds ripen from July to dry, often sandy soils. Visited by butterflies and September. moths.

Green Marsh Carpet Moth Pink Marbled Coronet Moth

074 LESSER SKULLCAP 079 MARJORAM Scutellaria minor Origanum vulgare

A perennial for wet areas. Height 15-30cm. Pink 30cm stems of pink flowers August - September flowers June-September. Native of the edges above rosettes of aromatic leaves. Much sought of streams and in fens and water meadows. by bees and butterflies. Attracts the small copper Creeping rhizomes form good patches in sun or butterfly in large numbers. Use as a herb in shade. Italian cookery.

Pink Pink Black Veined Moth. Lace Bordered Moth

075 LESSER STITCHWORT 080 MATT GRASS Stellaria graminea Nardus stricta

A creeping perennial for sunny sites. Height 10- A perennial for sunny sites. Height 10-30cm. 30cm. White flowers May-August. A native of Plant 5 per square metre. Flowers June-August. open woods, heaths and grassland, especially on Abundant on the poorer siliceous and peaty soils. light soils. Often the dominant grass in suitable habitats.

Lychnis Moth. Large Yellow Underwing White Brown Moth. Plain Clay Moth www.wildflowers.co.uk 20 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 21 081 MEADOW BUTTERCUP 086 MEADOW SAXIFRAGE Ranunculus acris Saxifraga granulata Sunny Sunny Up to 20 cm tall. An attractive hairy perennial. Leaves are basal, kidney-shaped and hairy with A perennial for sunny sites. Height 15-40cm. blunt teeth. Small brown bulbils are produced at Yellow flowers May-July. Found in grassland, leaf bases in autumn and give rise to new plants. especially damp and calcareous. Rich in nectar. Flowers are 20-30 mm across and five white petals April to May.

Yellow Flame Brocade Moth White Yellow Ringed Carpet Moth

082 MEADOW CLARY 087 MEADOW VETCHLING Salvia pratensis Lathyrus pratensis

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-100cm. Violet-blue flowers June-July. Native of Perennial of sunny sites, height 30-45cm. Yellow calcareous grassland. The seeds were once used flowers May-August, followed by shiny black as an eyewash to clear infection. seed pods. Excellent bee plant.

Blue Feathered Footman Moth Yellow New Forest Burnet Moth

083 MEADOW CRANESBILL 088 MOTH MULLEIN Geranium pratense Verbascum blatteria

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-45cm. Bright blue flowers June-September. Native of A biennial for sunny sites. Height 100-200cm. meadows and roadsides. Makes a good border Yellow flowers From midsummer. Introduced plant. but still sought by the mullein moth.

Blue Brown Argus Yellow Mullein Moth. Striped Lychnis Moth

084 MEADOW FESCUE 089 MOUSEAR HAWKWEED Festuca pratensis Pilosella officinarum

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 5-30cm. Yellow flowers from May until first frosts. A tall, tufted grass similar to tall fescue (Festuca Common over much of the British Isles in dry, arundinacea). It grows in meadows, on roadsides, grassland habitats, banks and rock walls. The riversides etc. on moist, rich soils. sparrow hawk is alleged to eat this plant to improve its sight!

Brown Wall Brown Butterfly Yellow Scarce Bordered Straw Moth

085 MEADOW FOXTAIL 090 MUSK MALLOW Alopecurus pratensis Malva moschata

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-50cm. A perennial of damp grassy places. Height 30- Delicate pink mallow flowers July-September. 90cm. Flowers April-June. Pretty at flowering Native to grassy places, pastures and hedge with its large purple stamens. banks. Good nectar plant.

Purple The Drinker Moth Pink Mallow Moth

20 www.wildflowers.co.uk 21 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 091 NIGHT-FLOWERING CATCHFLY 096 QUAKING GRASS Silene noctiflora Briza media Sunny Sunny

30-45cm tall annual for well-drained soils. The stems are covered in sticky glands which “catch” A native perennial of chalk downland. Height 20- small flies. The pale yellow flowers appear in 30cm. Flowers June-July followed by quaking late afternoon and are pollinated by night flying seed heads. Will also do well in dry or moist insects. open sites. Water well before planting.

Yellow Lychnis Moth Brown Meadow Brown

092 OXEYE DAISY 097 RED CLOVER Leucanthemum vulgare Trifolium pratense

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-45cm. White flowers May-October. A common plant A perennial for sunny sites. Height 20-40cm. Red of grassland, which will grow magnificently on flowers May-September. A rich nectar source for fertile soils. A good nectar plant attracting both bees. butterflies and bees.

Five-Spot Burnet Moth. Mother Shipton White Red Moth

093 PERFORATE ST JOHN’S WORT 098 RED FESCUE Hypericum perforatum Festuca rubra

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-45cm. Yellow flowers with translucent dots July- A perennial height 15-30cm, 30-45cm at September. Native of open woods, hedge banks flowering. Flowers June-August. Extremely and grassland. A recently re-discovered herbal variable, widespread throughout Britain in every remedy plant. habitat.

Purple Cloud Butterfly. Lesser Treble Bar Yellow Brown Grass Eggar Moth moth

094 PIGNUT 099 REFLEXED STONECROP Conopodium majus Sedum rupestre

It grows in woods and fields, and is an indicator of long-established grassland. A smooth, slender, A creeping perennial for sunny sites. Height 10- curving stem, up to 30cm high, much-divided 20cm. Yellow flowers June-August. An excellent leaves, and small, white flowers May - August. nectar plant for rocky places, walls, paths etc.

White Chimney Sweeper Moth Yellow Yellow Ringed Carpet Moth

095 PURPLE TOADFLAX 100 RIBWORT PLANTAIN Linaria purpurea Plantago lanceolata

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-90cm. . Violet flowers June-August. An introduction but 15 -30 cm tall perennial of open grassland. sometimes naturalised on old walls and in waste Brownish flowers April-August. A good plant places. for seed eating birds.

Purple Toadflax Pug moth Brown Glanville Fritilary. Buff Ermine Moth www.wildflowers.co.uk 22 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 23 101 ROCK CINQUEFOIL 106 ROUND HEADED RAMPION Potentilla rupestris Phyteuma orbiculare Sunny Sunny

A perennial for sunny dry, well-drained sites. Height 30-40cm. White rose like flowers May- A perennial for sunny sites. Height 5-50cm. July. Very rare now in the wild and only visible Deep Violet flowers July-August. Native of through binoculars on a mountain ledge in Wales. chalk grassland. A good nectar plant.

White Straw Belle Moth Purple

102 ROCK ROSE 107 SAINFOIN Helianthemum nummularium Onobrychis viciifolia

30-60cm herbaceous perennial of open situations A perennial for sunny grassland, mainly on on chalk and limestone. Bright pink racemes of chalk/lime. Height 15cm.Yellow flowers May- flowers July - August much visited by bees. A September. Good for bare difficult places. doubtful native and almost certainly introduced into Britain. An excellent nectar and border plant.

Yellow Green Hairstreak Pink

103 ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB 108 SALAD BURNET Chamerion angustifolium Sanguisorba minor ssp minor

A perennial of sunny sites, especially woodland clearings and waste ground. Height to 150cm. A perennial for sunny sites Height 30-50cm. Strongly rhizomatous with magenta flowers Reddish-purple flowers May-August. Native of July-August. A well-loved nectar plant. calcareous grassland. Can be used in salads.

Magenta Elephant Hawk Moth. Small Phoenix Moth Red Lesser Marbled Fritilary

104 ROUGH HAWKBIT 109 SALSIFY Leontodon hispidus Tragopogon porrifolius

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 15-30cm. A biennial for sunny sites. Height 30-45cm. Yellow flowers June-October. Native of Purple flowers June-August followed by giant meadows, pastures and grassy slopes etc. A seed clocks. An introduction cultivated for its good late nectar plant, if dead headed will come taproot and occasionally escaping. The taproot again and again. can be eaten like a vegetable.

Yellow Wood Tiger Moth Purple Marbled Fritilary

105 ROUGH MEADOW GRASS 110 SELFHEAL Poa trivialis Prunella vulgaris

A perennial sunny sites. Height 20-60cm. A perennial for sunny sites. Height 10-30cm. Flowers June. Native of meadows and waste Red-purple flowers June-September. Found in places. A good plant for the Gatekeeper and lawns where constant cutting will give flowers many Skipper butterflies. all summer. A good nectar plant.

Brown Gatekeeper and Skipper butterflies Red

22 www.wildflowers.co.uk 23 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 111 SHEEP’S FESCUE 116 SMALL TEASEL Festuca ovina Dipsacus pilosus Sunny Sunny

A tall – to 1.2m – biennial for damp and shady A perennial of acid conditions. Height 25cm. places. Very prickly leaves and stems, with white Flowers July-August. A delicate grass which flowers in July. An excellent nectar plant. Not goes blue/green in frost. as robust as the teasel and may need staking in exposed places.

Brown Mountain Ringlet White

112 SHEEP’S SORREL 117 SMALL TIMOTHY Rumex acetosella Phleum bertolonii

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30cm. Reddish flowers May-June. Male and female A perennial for sunny sites. Height 10-50cm. flowers are on separate plants. Native of heaths, Flowers June-July. Native of pastures and short in grassland and cultivated land, common on rough grassland. Can be the host for Yellow acid soils. Good as a salad leaf. Rattle (Rhinanthus minor).

Red The Forester Moth Green Small Skipper Butterfly

113 SHRUBBY CINQUEFOIL 118 SMOOTH STALKED MEADOW GRASS Potentilla fruticosa Poa pratensis

A deciduous, branched flowering shrub, 10 - 90cm tall . Pale yellow flowers early to late A creeping perennial 10-90cm high. Flowering summer. Found in swamps or moist rocky areas, May - July and found over most of Britain. A often at high altitudes. constituent of turf.

Yellow Brown

114 SMALL FLOWERED CATCHFLY 119 SORREL Silene gallica Rumex acetosa

A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-50cm. A little annual which flowers profusely and sets Red-brown flowers May-June. Plant with masses of seed. It will spread in bare soil and Marjoram for a ‘nectar fix’ when Small Coppers cracks in pavings. Our plants are from Jersey, are passing and they’ll stay! A good salad leaf.

White Campion Moth Red Small Copper Butterfly. Dart moth

115 SMALL SCABIOUS 120 SPINY REST-HARROW Scabiosa columbaria Ononis spinosa

A perennial for sunny sites, common on rough, A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-45cm. grassy places in the South and East of England Light blue flowers July-September. A good plant and the Midlands. Height 30-60cm. Pale pink for bees and butterflies in late summer. Seeds are flowers June-July. Very similar to Rest-Harrow taken by birds as soon as ripe. but has hard, sharp prickles. Loved by bees of all species.

Blue Pink www.wildflowers.co.uk 24 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 25 121 STICKY CATCHFLY 126 TEASEL Lychnis viscaria Dipsacus fullonum Sunny Sunny A stately biennial for sunny sites. Height 45- A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30 cm. Bright 200cm. Plant 3 per square metre. Purple flowers pink flowers June-August. A very rare and local July-August. A rich source of nectar, and the plant of cliffs, dry rocks and rock debris. A good seeds are a favourite of Goldfinches. Water garden plant. really well before planting. The seed heads were used for knapping cloth.

Pink Vipers Bugloss Moth Purple

122 SULPHUR CINQUEFOIL 127 TORMENTIL Potentilla recta Potentilla erecta

Perennial with non-rooting, flowering stems to A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30cm. Yellow 15cm. Yellow flowers May - August, sometimes flowers May-June. A garden escape or casual chosen as food plant of Common Blue butterflies sometimes becoming naturalised in waste or in suitable habitats. Found in grassy places grassy places but a good garden nectar plant. mostly on acid soils but also occurs on limestone.

Yellow Yellow Rosy Marbeled Moth

123 SULPHUR CLOVER 128 TOWER MUSTARD Trifolium ochroleucon Arabis glabra

A biennial of sunny sites, native to dry grassy, A perennial for sunny sites. Height 10-30cm. rocky and waste places. Height 30-100cm. Yellow flowers June-August. Forms a flat Numerous pale yellow flowers May-July. Very spreading rosette of grey-green leaves. Native localised and decreasing in Britain. Rich in of grassy places mainly on boulder clay. nectar.

Yellow Latticed Heath Moth. Mother Shipton Moth Yellow Grey Carpet Moth

124 SWEET VERNAL GRASS 129 TUFTED VETCH Anthoxanthum odoratum Vicia cracca

An ancient hay meadow perennial. Height 30-50cm. The bruised or dying leaves emit A clambering perennial for sunny sites. One a distinctive fresh hay scent. One of the first sided spikes of blue flowers June-August. A grasses to flower. Flowers April-June. Native of good nectar plant. pastures and meadows and on heaths and moors.

Green Gate Keeper Blue Blackneck Moth.

125 TANSY 130 VERVAIN Tanacetum vulgare Verbena officinalis

30-100 cm tall with bright yellow, button flowers A perennial for sunny sites Height 15-45cm. Tiny and aromatic fern-like leaves. Likes dry, sunny lilac flowers July-September. Grow in clumps sites, and is said to repel flies. Flowers all for best effect. Said to possess properties to cure summer from June. infection and prevent evil spells.

Yellow Essex Emerald Moth Purple

24 www.wildflowers.co.uk 25 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 131 VIPERS BUGLOSS 136 WHITE CLOVER Echium vulgare Trifolium repens Sunny Sunny

A biennial for sunny sites, native to Breckland A creeping perennial for sunny sites. Height 10- in Norfolk. Height 30-100cm. Blue flowers 15cm. White, with a hint of pink flowers May- June-August. Loved by bees and Painted Lady November. Native of grassy places particularly Butterflies. on clay soils. A must for bumblebees.

Hebrew Character Moth. Mother Shipton Blue Viper’s Bugloss Moth. Painted Lady White Moth

132 VIVIPAROUS SHEEP’S FESCUE 137 WILD CARROT Festuca vivipara Daucus carota

Perennial of hilly and rocky places Height 15cm. Flowers May-July. A good plant for poor soil. A biennial for sunny sites. Height 30-100cm. New plants are produced instead of seed - a White flowers with central pink or purple petals strategy adopted by plants of high altitudes and June - August. Found only on chalky soils often latitudes, where the growing season is short. near the sea.

Brown Meadow Brown White Yellow Belle Moth

133 WAVY HAIR GRASS 138 WILD CLARY Deschampsia flexuosa Salvia verbenaca

A perennial for dry calcareous sunny sites. A dark green perennial grass for acid soils. Height 30-45cm. Violet/blue flowers June- Flowers to 45cm July – August. August. Native of dry pastures and roadsides. Rich in nectar and pollinated by bumblebees.

Brown Mountain Ringlet Butterfly Blue Twin-Spot carpet moth

134 WELD 139 WILD CLEMATIS Reseda luteola Clematis vitalba

A woody climbing perennial often to 30 metre or To 60 cm tall biennial. Spires of yellow flowers more. Greenish-white flowers July - August rich July/August. Found on poor dry soils throughout in nectar with fluffy seed heads that often remain Britain. until February.

Small Emerald Moth. Sub Angled Wave Yellow Food plant of the Bath White Butterfly. Green Moth

135 WHITE CAMPION 140 WILD PARSNIP Silene alba Pastinaca sativa

A tall, yellow umbellifer (member of the Carrot A perennial for sunny sites. Height 30-60cm. family with umbrella-like flower heads). Found White flowers May-September. Loved by bees in grassy places and on roadsides, on lime, from and moths, caterpillars eat the seed in the pods early summer to early autumn. Common in the and earwigs use the seed heads for shelter. south east, increasing rare further north.

White Sandy Carpet moth Yellow www.wildflowers.co.uk 26 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 27 Yellow Rattle - Rhianthus minor We get asked for this plant a lot but do not always have seed stock. Please contact us if you are looking for it and we will advise you further on sourcing the seed. 141 WILD THYME 146 YELLOW TOADFLAX Thymus polytrichus Linaria vulgaris Sunny Sunny

A fragrant perennial for sunny sites. Height A perennial for sunny sites. Height 20-30cm. 10cm. Purple flowers June-August. A good bee Yellow-orange snapdragon-like flowers July- attractor. October. A good nectar plant.

Purple Thyme Pug Moth. Transparent Burnet moth Yellow Toadflax Pug Moth

142 WILD WALLFLOWER 147 YORKSHIRE FOG Cheiranthus cheiri Holcus lanatus

Perennial for sunny sites Height 20-60cm. Flower colour Yellow. Flowers April-May. Seeds A perennial for sunny sites. Height 20-60cm. well in dry areas and very hardy. Very fragrant Plant 5 per square metre Flowers June-September. and a good early nectar source. Native to waste places, fields and woods.

Yellow Orange Tip Brown

143 WOAD 148 ZIG ZAG CLOVER Isatis tinctoria Trifolium medium

A plant for sunny sites. Height 60-120cm. Similar to the Red Clover, with less rounded Yellow flowers June-August. Produces shiny leaflets and flower heads standing on longer brown seeds and was used as a blue dye plant by stalks. The leaves are softly hairy and more the Saxons. upright. Soft pink flowers June - July.

Yellow orange Tip. Large White Pink

144 YARROW 149 BERBERIS Achillea millefolium Berberis vulgaris

A perennial of sunny sites. Height 10-45cm. A perennial shrub. Height 1-2.5m. Plant 3 White or Pink flowers June-August. Attractive per square metre. Yellow flowers September- to butterflies and bees. A common plant of October. Found in hedges throughout Britain but meadows and pastures. very local and in small quantities.

Essex Emerald, Lime Speck Pug, Worm- Pink wood Pug, Straw Belle and Ruby Tiger Yellow Moths. 145 YELLOW OAT GRASS 150 BETONY Trisetum flavescens Stachys officinalis

A late flowering grass (July onwards) growing A perennial for semi-shade. Height 15-30cm. to 80cm, pale green leaves are softly hairy. It is Magenta flowers June-July. Ground cover for the food plant of several moths of the Elachista hedge banks, becoming rare in the wild, as our genera. hedgerows disappear.

Green Elachista moth Magenta Speckled Yellow Butterfly

26 www.wildflowers.co.uk 27 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 151 BUGLE 156 CROSSWORT Ajuga reptans Cruciata laevipes

A perennial for semi-shade. Height 10-20cm. perennial Semi shade Height stems 15-70cm. Purple flowers May-July. Provides dense Semi-Shade Semi-Shade groundcover for shady places, likes soil that Plant 5 per square metre Flower colour Pale stays moist. Pollinated by bees. yellow. Flowers May-June.

Purple Bumble Bee Yellow

152 BURNET SAXIFRAGE 157 FALSE OAT GRASS Pimpinella major Arrhenatherum elatius

A perennial for semi-shaded woodland edges. Height 50-100cm. Pinkish-white flowers June- A tufted perennial growing to 150cm high. July. Usually found on heavy soils at margins of Native of non-acidic grasslands. Flowers May/ woods and in hedge banks. June. The common grass of roadside verges.

Pink Brown

153 BUSH VETCH 158 FIELD WOODRUSH Viccia sepium Luzula campestris

A perennial for damp sites Height 10-20cm. A spring flowering perennial of woodland edges Flower colour Reddish brown. Flowers March- and hedgerows. Purple and lilac flowers are bee June. Excellent for growing in damp open sites, friendly and nectar-rich. Seeds are taken by voles especially damp lawns. Called ‘Good Friday and birds. Grass’ - almost always in flower at Easter.

Purple Red Double-Line Moth

154 COCKSFOOT GRASS 159 FRAGRANT AGRIMONY Dactylis glomerata Agrimonia procera

A tall grass which can reach over 1m in fertile A perennial for semi-shade. Height 60-100cm. soils. Makes good hay and has been sown for Yellow flowers June-August. Leaves are lemon this for over a century. Native to woodland and scented. Found on light sandy soils. Seeds pasture, forms large clumps and is much used by dispersed by hooking to animals - including our hibernating insects. clothes.

Green Yellow Large Grizzled Skipper

155 COW PARSLEY 160 GERMANDER SPEEDWELL Anthriscus sylvestris Veronica chamaedrys

A biennial/perennial of woodland edges and verges in semi-shade. Height to 1.5m. White A creeping perennial for semi-shade. Height umbels of flowers late May, hence the nickname 10cm. Purple flowers April-June. Good drought Mayweed. A rich nectar source for hoverflies and survivor. If dead-headed will repeat flower. honey bees.

White Single Dotted Wave Purple Spotted Fritilary Butterfly www.wildflowers.co.uk 28 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 29 161 GREY SEDGE 166 HEDGE GARLIC Carex divulsa ssp divulsa Alliaria petiolata

A perennial of semi shade and waste grounds. Height 18-30cm. . Greenish-brown flowers A biennial for semi-shade. Height 20-80cm. Semi-Shade Semi-Shade June-August. Scattered over England and Wales. White flowers April-late June. The thin pale Native of rough pastures, open woods and hedge green leaves smell strongly of garlic. banks.

Brown Silver Hook Moth White Orange Tip. Green-veined White

162 GROMWELL 167 HEDGEROW CRANESBILL Lithospermum officinale Geranium pyrenaicum

Gromwell is in flower from June to July, and the seeds ripen from July to August. White flowers A perennial for semi-shade. Height 25-30cm. and shiny white seeds which stay on the plant Magenta flowers June-August. Grows in hedge most of the winter. banks and on waysides. Readily self-seeds.

Blue Magenta

163 GUELDER ROSE 168 HEMLOCK Vibernum opulus Conium maculatum

A deciduous shrub found in woodlands and hedges on damp alkaline soil. Grows up to A biennial for wet areas. Height 1-2m. Plant 2m high. White flowers June-July. Hoverflies 3 per square metre. White flowers June-July. attracted to the nectar and berries loved by Native to damp areas, open woods and near bullfinches. Berries, leaves and bark are all water. ALL PARTS OF THIS PLANT ARE poisonous to man. VERY POISONOUS.

White Scarce Darter Moth White

164 HAIRY ST. JOHN’S WORT 169 HYBRID WOUNDWORT Hypericum hirsutum Stachys x ambigua

A perennial for semi-shade. Height 40-60cm. Pale yellow flowers with black glands on sepals A cross between S.sylvatica and S.palustris. 30 and petals July-September. A native of woodland - 60 cm tall perennial with pink/purple flowers and scrub land usually on damp soils. throughout the summer. A good bee plant

Yellow Treble bar Moth Pink

165 HEDGE BEDSTRAW 170 LESSER BURDOCK Galium mollugo Arctium minus

A biennial of semi-shade. Height 60-130cm. Trailing with minute white flowers. Delicate Plant 3 per square metre. Red-purple flowers stems and leaves, ideal for hedgerows or shady July-September. Very variable. Native of banks. Flowers July/August waste places, waysides and hedgebanks, scrub, woodland margins and clearings.

White Ruddy carpet moth. Cream Wave Moth Red

28 www.wildflowers.co.uk 29 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 171 LESSER CELANDINE 176 NOTTINGHAM CATCHFLY Ranunculus ficaria Silene nutans

A perennial for semi-shade. Height 20-30cm. A perennial for semi-shade. Height 5-25cm. Nodding white-greenish flowers often with sticky Yellow flowers March-May. Spreads rapidly by stems, May-July. Flowers open late afternoon Semi-Shade Semi-Shade seed and small bulbils to form yellow carpets in and are fragrant and nectar rich. Attractive to no time at all. An early- flowering bee plant. Butterflies and Moths. Good near the coast.

Lychnis Moth. Campion Moth.White Spot Yellow Flame Brocade Moth Green Moth OPPOSITE LEAVED GOLDEN 172 MADDER 177 SAXIFRAGE Rubia peregrina Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

A scrambling perennial of semi shade. Height 30-120cm. Yellow flowers June-August and A creeping hairy perennial with light yellow black berries until October. Native of hedges, leaves and greenish flowers with bright yellow thickets, scrub and on stony ground. Found bracts March - May. A native of wet acid soils mostly in South-west Britain. Used as a dye in semi-shade plant.

Mottled Grey Moth. Hummingbird Hawk Northern Rustic Moth. Small Fan Foot Yellow Green Moth Moth

173 MELANCHOLY THISTLE 178 PALE ST JOHNS WORT Circium helenoides Hypericum ellipticum

A tall perennial of woodland edges and damp meadows in Northern Britain. Spreading with 45cm tall perennial with pale lemon coloured stolons and making big clumps but not spreading flowers, July – September. Found in semi- from seed. The leaves are covered in white hairs shade at edges of woodland and in hedgerows on the underside and prickly edges. Flowering throughout Britain, mostly on alkaline soils. from August - September.

Purple Yellow

174 MOTHERWORT 179 PENCILLED CRANESBILL Leonurus cardiaca Geranium versicolor

Herbaceous perennial to 1metre tall. Many- A perennial for semi-shade. Height 10-30cm. flowered whorls of white or pale pink with White flowers pencilled with purple/blue purple spots July - September. Rich in nectar markings May-September. Introduced from the and pollinated by bees. Introduced from Europe Mediterranean. Prefers a cool situation to do and naturalised in wasteland and roadsides. well.

White Purple

175 NORTHERN BEDSTRAW 180 RAMSONS Galium boreale Allium ursinum Ramsons grow in deciduous woodlands with moist soils, where they are most commonly A perennial for northern sites. Height 20-45cm. found in slightly acid soils. They flower before White flowers June-July. Native of rocky slopes deciduous trees leaf out in the spring; during and stream sides, moraine, screed and shingle, flowering the plants fill the air with their stable dunes in northern Britain. characteristic garlic-like scent. The stem is triangular in shape and the leaves are similar to those of the Lily of the Valley.

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A perennial for semi shade. Height 2-3 metres. Greenish flowers May-June, followed by deep A spreading perennial for semi-shade. Height

Semi-Shade Semi-Shade pink fruit. Pollinated by small insects. Native of 10-15cm. White flowers April-July. Produces woods and scrub mostly on calcareous soil. The small edible fruits. Excellent ground cover for mature wood was used to make the spindle for drier shade. spinning wool.

Green Spindle Ermine Moth White Grizzled Skipper

182 STINGING NETTLE 187 WINTER ACONITE Urtica dioica Eranthus hyemalis

1-2m tall perennial, which needs little A perennial for shady sites. Height 5-15cm. Plant description. A hybrid between two species which 9 per square metre. Yellow flowers January- has followed human civilization across the globe. March. Flowers are very temperature sensitive, A warning to all who would introduce species to opening above 10 degrees centigrade. Visited by our land. hive-bees and flies.

White Red Admiral Yellow

183 SWEET CICELY 188 YELLOW ARCHANGEL Myrrhis odorata Lamiastrum galiobdolon

An introduced perennial with aniseed scented leaves. The leaves often have white blotches 20-60cm tall perennial, closely related to the making the plant easily mistaken for Male Fern. dead-nettles. Distinguished by its striking The white flowers appear in May and the shiny yellow flowers in May and June with red streaks black seeds last till autumn. Use the leaves with on the lower lip. Found in woods and clearings rhubarb to reduce tartness. throughout Britain

White Yellow

184 UPRIGHT HEDGE PARSLEY 189 BLUEBELL Torilis japonica Hyacinthoides non-scripta

An annual for sunny sites. Height 80-100cm. The true English Bluebell. 25-30cm tall perennial Plant 5 per square metre. White/pinkish flowers bulb of woodlands. Blue flowers April-May. July-September. Native of dry grassy soils often Now a protected species, which we are growing in woodland clearings. from seed.

White Blue

185 WILD PRIVET 190 COLUMBINE Ligustrum vulgare Aquilegia vulgaris

A perennial for shady sites. Height 40-60cm. A perennial for semi shade. Height to 3 metres. Purple flowers May-June. A native plant found White flowers June-July. Black berries all locally in woods and wet places on calcareous winter. Native to hedges and scrub particularly soil or fen peat. Visited by long-tongued bumble- on calcareous soils. bees for pollen and nectar.

Small Blood-Vein Moth. Barred Tooth White Purple Beautiful Brocade Moth Striped Moth

30 www.wildflowers.co.uk 31 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 191 CREEPING JENNY 196 FIGWORT Lysimachia nummularia Scrophularia nodosa Shade Shade

A perennial for shady and semi-shade sites 10cm tall, but often creeping stems reach 60cm Height 30-60cm. Tiny maroon and green flowers long. The bright yellow flowers appear in early June-September. Native of damp and wet woods April - June. Usually found in wet woods or and hedge banks. Once established, will flower other damp shady places. continuously. Pollinated by wasps.

Yellow Lesser Yellow Underwing Butterfly Green Spotted Fritillary. Satyr Pug Moth

192 DEADLY NIGHTSHADE 197 FOXGLOVE Atropa belladonna Digitalis purpurea A robust, herbaceous perennial growing each year to 2m. Unusual flowers of green and brownish purple followed by black shiny berries. All parts are deadly poisonous. Found in damp, A biennial for shady sites, height 50-150cm. shady places, mostly on chalk or limestone. Purple-Red flowers June-September. Really Pollinated by bumblebees. The sap was used in good bumblebee plant. Good in dry shade. the middle ages to dilate the pupils for added sex appeal.

Purple Red Heath Fritillary. Foxglove Pug Moth

193 DOG VIOLET 198 GIANT BELLFLOWER Viola riviniana Campanula latifolia

A perennial for shady sites in woods, river and stream banks and mountain meadows on moist A perennial for shady sites. Height 10-15cm. soils. Height to 50-120cm. Blue flowers July- Purple flowers April-June. Called dog as it has no August. Widespread in Northern Britain from scent. Plant next to old trees to attract butterflies. North Wales upwards. Pollinated by bees, but may also be self pollinated.

Silver Washed Fritilary. Small Pearl-Bor- Purple Blue Campanula Pug Moth dered Fritilary

194 DOG’S MERCURY 199 GREATER STITCHWORT Mercurialis perennis Stellaria holostea

Greater stitchwort is a plant of woods and A perennial for shady sites. Height 10-50cm. hedgerows on mildly acid to calcareous soils. Its Green flowers February-April. An indicator masses of white flowers make it a superb species species of ancient woodland. Excellent ground for a shady nook or hedge-bottom. A good early cover for shade. nectar plant. Flowers April to May.

Plain Clay Moth. Large yellow Underwing Green Spurge Hawk Moth White Moth

195 ENCHANTER’S NIGHTSHADE 200 GROUND IVY Circaea lutetiana Glechoma hederacea

A perennial for shady sites, spreading by creeping rhizomes. Height 20-45cm. Pink flowers June- A creeping perennial for shady sites providing September. Seeds have hooked bristles that are excellent ground cover, spreading by runners spread by small mammals, and people’s socks! over extensive distances. . Lilac flowers March- The plant was used by Cerces to turn Jason and May. Can form large carpets in semi-shade and the Argonauts into pigs. the flowers look beautiful. A good nectar source.

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A perennial of damper patches. Height 15-30cm Good ground-cover plant for most habitats. Plant tall in dry conditions and 30-60cm tall in wet. Oct-Mar. Can be raised from summer cuttings. Creeping sedge with pale green and hairy flowers Very tolerant. The late flowers in Sept and Oct May-August. Found on hedge banks, marshes are great for bees and the purple berries are eaten and dune slacks. in late winter by birds.

Green Large Heath Green Holly Blue Butterfly

202 HAIRY WOODRUSH 207 LILY OF THE VALLEY Luzula pilosa Convallaria majalis

A rhizomatous perennial of dry woods and 15-40cm tall perennial of damp shady places. hedge banks. Fragrant white flowers May - June, Brown flowers from May till August. A good followed by red berries. Much planted in gardens plant for interplanting in grassland and borders. and a common escape, but worthy of a shady spot.

Brown Double Line Moth. Striped Wainscot Moth White Grey Chi Moth

203 HEDGE WOUNDWORT 208 LORDS AND LADIES Stachys sylvatica Arum maculatum

Also known as the Cuckoo Pint, purple-spotted A perennial for shady sites. Height 30-60cm. leaves in spring followed by spade-like flowers. Magenta-purple flowers throughout summer. Large starch-bearing root tube. Common in The nettle shaped leaves smell strongly of garlic. woodland across Britain. Orange berries August An excellent nectar plant. to September. POISONOUS

Magenta Small Rivulet Moth. Garden Tiger Moth White Lesser Broad-Bordered Yellow underwing

204 HERB ROBERT 209 MARTAGON LILY Geranium robertianum Lilium martagon

An introduced perennial found naturalised in Biennial for shady sites Height 10-50cm. Pink shady places. Leaves in whorls and stiff flower flowers early spring onwards. The leaves can be stems to 60cm. The flowers vary from purple green through the shades of pink, brown to bright through shades of pink, sometimes white. scarlet - strongly scented. Flowers are strongly scented. Flowers from late June to September.

Pink Barred Carpet Moth Purple

205 HOPS 210 MOSCHATEL Humulus lupulus Adoxa moschatellina

A herbaceous perennial climber to 8 metres. A perennial forming carpets in damp woodland. Female flowers appear after the male and are Height 5-10cm. . Green flowers April-May. Also pale yellow/green, July - August. Found in called Townhall Clock, because all the flowers hedgerows, open woods, scrub and edges of are at right angles to each other like clock faces. waterways. Flowers used in beer making. Visited by various small insects.

Green Comma. Peacock. Pale Tussock Moth Green

32 www.wildflowers.co.uk 33 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 211NETTLE-LEAVED BELLFLOWER 216 RED CAMPION Campanula trachelium Silene dioica Shade Shade

A 45cm tall hairy perennial of shady places on alkaline soils. Its leaves and stems are rough and A perennial for shady sites. Height 30-60cm. prickly and looks like a stinging nettle. Purple Red/Pink flowers May-July. Now often found flowers June - July, pollinated by bees and night- with white campion and their hybrid. flying moths.

Purple Campanula Pug Moth Pink Campion Moth. Rivulet Moth

212 OVAL SEDGE 217 REMOTE SEDGE Carex ovalis Carex remota

A perennial of wet, slightly acid soils. Height 10- 50cm. Densely tufted with flowers July-August. A perennial of damp shady places. Height 30- Found in wet meadows, woodland edges and 60cm. Bright lime green leaves and small brown very wet heath land. flowers May-June.

Green Hedge Rustic Moth Brown Ringlet

213 OXLIP 218 SANICLE Primula elatior Sanicula europaea

A perennial for shady sites. Height 15-20cm. Plant 9 per square metre. Yellow flowers April- A perennial for shady sites. Height 20-60cm. May. A native of East Anglia, growing best in Pinkish or whitish green flowers May-June. damp leafy shade. Now only found in a few sites Native of deciduous woodlands, particularly in Suffolk & Cambridgeshire. Ash, Beech or Oak.

Yellow White

214 PALE SEDGE 219 SCOTTISH PRIMROSE Carex pallescens Primula scotica A tiny endemic native of the very North of Scotland and Orkney. Has two flowerings in A plant of wet soils on woodland edges and May and July but often dies after the second stream banks. Rough leaves of a bright green seed setting. Clear blue and purple flowers and and flower stems to 60cm. Common throughout grey almost silver leaves.May take two years to Britain. flower. A basal rosette and flower spike to 10cm (Orkney)

Green Purple

215 PRIMROSE 220 SNOWDROP Primula vulgaris Galanthus nivalis

A perennial for shady sites. Height 10-15cm. Yellow flowers February-May. Becoming rare as 15cm tall early spring flowering bulb. Possibly our woods and waysides disappear. Pollinated native in woods and shady places, but likely to by night-flying insects. A very valuable food have been introduced by the Victorians. source for moths.

Yellow Least Yellow Underwing Moth White www.wildflowers.co.uk 34 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 35 221 WHITE DEAD-NETTLE 226 WOOD CRANESBILL Lamium album Geranium sylvaticum Shade Shade

A perennial for shady sites. Height 15-40cm. White flowers May-December, loved by 30-60cm tall perennial of woods and hedge banks Bumblebees. One of the first and last plants to in the south, and wet meadows in the north. have flowers. Bright purple-magenta flowers April - June.

Beautiful Garden Y Moth. Burnished Brass White Magenta Scarce Bordered Straw Moth Moth

222 WOOD ANENOME 227 WOOD FALSE-BROME Anemone nemorosa Brachypodium sylvaticum

A perennial for shady sites. Height 30-90cm. A perennial with spreading rhizomes for shady Flowers July. A native of woods and hedges, places. The white flowers in April can be tinged sometimes in grassland throughout the British with pink or purple. Isles. A good grass for the border.

White Fern Moth and the Cumbrian Umber Moth. Green Lulworth Skipper Butterfly

223 WOOD AVENS 228 WOOD FORGET-ME-NOT Geum urbanum Myosotis sylvatica

A perennial for shady sites. Height 20-40cm. Yellow flowers June-August. Flowers are A perennial for shady sites. Height 15-45cm. followed by hairy ‘raspberry’ seed heads Blue flowers May-June, occasionally all summer. that provide a valuable food source for small Native to damp woods. An early nectar plant. mammals.

Yellow Riband Wave Moth. Checkerboard Skipper Blue Scarlet Tiger Moth

224 WOOD BROME 229 WOOD MELICK Bromus ramosa Melica uniflora

A tall grass to 2m of shady places and woodland edges. Softly hairy leaves and drooping flowers. A grass for dappled shade in rich soils. The A good grass for shady borders to give a bit of flowers are like immature quaking grass in July height to August.

Green Green Elachista compsa moth

225 WOOD CALAMINT 230 WOOD SEDGE Calamintha sylvatica Carex sylvatica

A very rare plant in the wild, now known only A perennial of damp woodland, but will tolerate from the Isle of Wight. 30-45cm tall at flowering. quite dry conditions. Height 15-60cm. . Flowers Pink/lilac flowers July. A very aromatic perennial. June-July. Seeds hold well into the autumn.

Pink Green

34 www.wildflowers.co.uk 35 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 231 WOOD SORREL 236 ANGELICA

Oxalis acetosella Angelica sylvestris Wet Wet

Wood sorrel likes moist, shaded places and in A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-200cm. woods often marks an area of rich organic or Pink and white flowers July-November. Flowers peaty soil. It is a good plant for a woodland edge. are rich in nectar, very attractive to hoverflies and Flowers for a few months during the spring, with the hollow stems provide safe hibernating sites. small white flowers with pink streaks. The stems are candied for cake decorations.

White Pink Swallow Tail. Triple-Spotted Pug Moth

232 WOODRUFF 237 ARTICULATED RUSH Galium odoratum Juncus articulatus

A perennial for shady sites. Height 15-30cm. White star like flowers May-June. The whole A perennial for wet areas. Height 20-80cm. Dark plant smells deliciously when dry and was used brown-black flowers June-September. Native of in medieval times as a mattress filling for the wet ground especially on acid soils. gentry!

White Hawk and Dart Moths Brown Small Rufus Moth

233 WOODRUSH 238 BISTORT Luzula sylvatica Persicaria bistorta

A perennial that really needs an acid leafy soil Perennial of wet areas, height 25-50cm. Pink and moisture. Height 30-45cm. . Brown flowers flowers June-August. Used in Easter Ledge May-June. Pudding.

Small Pearl-Bordered Fritillary, Small Brown Double-line Moth, Purple Clay Moth Pink Copper Butterfly

234 WOODSAGE 239 BLACK BOGRUSH Teucrium scorodonia Schoenus nigricans

A perennial for damp places, found from A perennial for shady sites. Height 15-30cm. mountain flushes to salt-marsh. Growing to Yellowish green flowers June-September. Has 75cm, when flowering looks very dark, hence crinkled leaves that smell of garlic. Will tolerate the name. Our plants originate on the island of dry conditions well. Lindisfarne, found growing in grey dunes.

Yellow Speckled Yellow Moth Brown

235 YELLOW PIMPERNEL 240 BRANCHED BUR-REED Lysimachia nemorum Sparganium erectum Low creeping perennial of damp shady places. Evergreen, with bright yellow flowers from late spring throughout the summer, and in woodland, A native of the water-side of slow flowing a second flowering in autumn after leaves have streams.Green flowers May-July and seeds fallen from trees and light penetrates to the turning brown and staying on the plant for a long ground. Leaves turn red in frost but remain all time. Flower stems to 1.2m. (Suffolk) year

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Wet Wet Veronica beccabunga Symphytum officinale

A creeping perennial for wet areas. Height 20- A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-120cm. 30cm. Blue flowers May-September. A native Plant 3 per square metre. White/purple flowers of streams, ponds, marshes, and wet meadows May-June. A native of damp places, especially throughout the British Isles. beside rivers and streams.

Blue Straw Belle Moth White

242 BROOKWEED 247 COMMON CLUBRUSH Samolus valerandi Schoenoplectus lacustris

A perennial for wet areas. Height 5-15cm. White A perennial for wet areas. Height 1-2 metres. flowers June-October. Found mostly on wet acid Reddish-Brown flowers June-July. Native to soils in sun in the North and semi-shade in the rivers, lakes and ponds, usually where there is an South. abundance of silt.

White Brown Rush Wainscott Moth

243 BULBOUS RUSH 248 COMMON REED Juncus bulbosus Phragmites australis

A perennial of wet areas. Height 3-10cm. A perennial for wetlands. Height 2-3metres. Dull Plant 5 per square metre. Brown flowers June- purple flowers July-September. Grows in mud or September. Native of moist heaths, bogs, cart- shallow water along waterways and fens. Often runs and rides in woods, mainly on acid soils. also along the edges of salt marshes. Provides Plants produce new plantlets by rooting at nodes. see for birds in winter. Used to clean grey water.

Brown Purple The Drinker Moth. Fen Wainscott Moth

244 CAMBRIDGE MILK PARSLEY 249 COMMON SEDGE Selinum carvifolia Carex nigra

A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-200cm. A blue/green leaved sedge of wet places. White flowers July-October. Native of fens and Common over most of Britain but can be very damp meadows. variable. From 20-60cm tall in richer soils.

White Swallowtail Green Silver Hook Moth

245 CELERY-LEAVED BUTTERCUP 250 COMMON SPIKE RUSH Ranunculus sceleratus Eleocharis palustris

A perennial for wet soils and pond margins. Erect, branched, almost hairless, annual herb, to Height 10-40cm. Reddish Brown flowers May- 60cm tall. Flowers May - September. For wet July. Stems densely tufted and form large stands. boggy areas in sun or shade. A useful plant for the edge of a pond where it provides height without being invasive.

Yellow The Fern Moth Brown

36 www.wildflowers.co.uk 37 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 251 COMMON YELLOW SEDGE 256 DIOECIOUS SEDGE

Carex demissa Carex dioica Wet Wet

Height 5-40cm. Yellow/Green flowers in clusters A perennial of wet silty mud at high altitude. July-August. Bright green leaves over wintering Height 5-20cm. . Flowers July-August. The to a pale straw colour, but early to start re- only British sedge to have separate male and growing in spring. Native of damp grassy and female plants. We can supply either/both. Native boggy places and stony margins of lakes. of fens and base rich flushes etc.

Yellow Silver Hook Moth Brown

252 COMPACT RUSH 257 FALSE FOX SEDGE Juncus conglomeratus Carex otrubae

A perennial of wet places on heavy clay, often A perennial for wet areas Height 30-150cm. Plant coastal. Height 30-45cm. Flowers June-August. 5 per square metre. Flowers May-July. Native to Fruit remain until September. Native of clayey wet pastures, bogs and damp woods. soils, usually in damp grassy places.

Brown Brown Antler Moth

253 COTTON GRASS 258 FEN VIOLET Eriophorum angustifolium Viola persicifolia

A perennial with short speading roots. Blue A perennial of wet acid soils. Height 20-60cm. - purple flowers June/ July. A very rare plant . Flowers June-August. The seed heads are of Cambrideshire and Huntingdon, but rather the ‘cotton’ of the name. Native of wet bogs, more common in Eire, from whence our plants shallow bog pools and acid fens. originate.

Large Ear Moth. Silver Hook Moth. White Purple Haworth’s Minor Moth

254 CYPERUS SEDGE 259 FLEA SEDGE Carex pseudocyperus Carex pulicaris

A perennial of wet areas, including marshes and A perennial of bogs, fens and flushes. Height 10- river banks. Height 30-75cm. . Spreading by 15cm. . Flowers June-July. Utricles become short rhizomes. Brown/gold flowers April-June. strongly deflexed on ripening, giving the A good plant to give height to poolside plantings. appearance of fleas.

Brown Dotted Fan Foot Moth Brown

255 DEVIL’S BIT SCABIOUS 260 FLEABANE Succisa pratensis Pulicaria dysenterica

15-45cm tall woolly perennial. Bright yellow A perennial for wet sites. Height 15-50cm. Lilac flowers August - September. Spreads by flowers August-September. Native of marshes, rhizomes to form dense clumps. Excellent for fens, meadows and pastures. Rich nectar source. late nectar supplies.

Purple Satyr Pug Moth. Marsh Fritillary Yellow www.wildflowers.co.uk 38 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 39 261 FLOATING SWEET GRASS 266 GREAT WATER DOCK

Wet Wet Glyceria fluitans Rumex hydrolapathum

A vigourus grass for wet places. Flowering A perennial for wet areas. Height 100-250cm. profusley June - July. Flowers are sticky to the Red/Brown flowers July-September. Native of touch. wet places and shallow water.

Green Red

262 FOOL’S WATERCRESS 267 GREAT WILLOWHERB Apium nodiflorum Epilobium hirsutum

A low, creeping perennial, rooting at lower nodes. White flowers in small umbels, opposite A perennial for wet areas. Height 80-150cm. leaves. Found in wet habitats on nutrient rich, Magenta pink flowers July-August. Very pretty alkaline soils. plant for a back border. Great nectar plant.

Elephant Hawk Moth. Willowherb Moth. White Magenta Small Phoenix Moth

263 GIPSYWORT 268GREATER BIRD’S FOOT TREFOIL Lycopus europeus Lotus uliginosus

A perennial for wet areas. Height 15-60cm. A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-100cm. Yellow flowers June onwards. Scrambles through White flowers June-September. Given plenty of other plants. Native to damp grassy places. A room will form dense clumps in boggy areas. good bee plant.

White Yellow Clouded Yellow. Five Spot Burnet Moth

264 GLAUCOUS SEDGE 269 GREATER POND SEDGE Carex flacca Carex riparia

A perennial for lime rich soils Height 10-40cm. A perennial of wet areas including ponds, Flower colour Brown-purple. Flowers June- marshes and steam sides. Height 100-150cm. August. A good plant for wet soils. Tussock forming with brown flowers May-July.

Brown Rosy Minor Moth Brown The Crescent Moth

265 GLOBEFLOWER 270 GREATER TUSSOCK SEDGE Trollius europaeus Carex paniculata

Densely tufted perennial. Growing to 1.5 metres Perennial of northern meadows, forming clumps tall in good wet conditions. Greenish, brown of shiny green leaves and flowering from late flowers May/June, followed by shinning black may through the June. Lemon yellow globular panicles of seeds. Found in wet places, lakesides, flowers. streams, and wet woods throughout Britain.

Yellow Sweet Gale Moth Brown

38 www.wildflowers.co.uk 39 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 271 GREEN-RIBBED SEDGE 276 LESSER POND SEDGE

Carex binervis Carex acutiformis Wet Wet

A perennial of wet habitats and acid grassland, A standing water perennial. Height 60-150cm. often close to the coast. Height 30-60cm. Tall and robust easily becoming the dominant Flowers May-June. Dying back in autumn but plant in a dyke or pond. Brown flowers July- persisting as pink-orange brown litter useful for September. Leaves glaucous at first and becoming over wintering insects. dull green often tinged with wine red on dying.

Dotted Fan Foot Moth. Blair’s Wainscott Pink Ringlet. Large Heath Brown Moth

272 GREY CLUBRUSH 277 LESSER SPEARWORT Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani Ranunculus flammula

A perennial for wet areas. Height 50-150cm. A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-50cm. Flowers August-October. Native of streams, Yellow flowers May-September. Rich in nectar ditches, pools and bogs, often in peaty places and and pollinated by bees. Native of wet places especially near the sea. Salt tolerant. throughout the British Isles.

Brown Rush Wainscott Moth Yellow

273 HARD RUSH 278 LONG STALKED YELLOW SEDGE Juncus inflexus Carex viridula

A perennial for wet areas. Height 25-60cm. Dark A perennial of wet alkaline soils. Densely tufted. Brown flowers June-August. Native of damp Yellow flowers July-August. The pale yellow pasture, preferring heavy basic or neutral soils. seeds remain on the plant until the Autumn.

Brown Yellow Red Sword Grass Moth

274 HEMP AGRIMONY 279 MARSH BEDSTRAW Eupatorium cannabinum Gallium palustre

Variable, straggly, short to medium perennial with A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-120cm. square stems. Small elliptical leaves in whorls of Pink flowers July-August followed by fluffy seed 4-6. Small white flowers in a lax panicle June - heads. A good butterfly nectar plant and loved August. Found in wet/moist habitats, sometimes by hoverflies and shield bugs. growing in water.

The V-Pug Moth. Scarce Burnished Brass Pink White Devon Carpet Moth. Water Carpet Moth Moth

275 LADY’S SMOCK 280 MARSH CINQUEFOIL Cardamine pratensis Potentilla palustris

A perennial for wet areas. Height 15-30cm. Pink flowers in spring with the arrival of the cuckoos 20-40cm tall perennial for wet areas. Magenta to our shores. Hence the other name of ‘Cuckoo flowers May-July. Native of fens, marshes, Flower’. Common throughout Britain in damp bogs, wet heaths and moors. Needs an acid soil meadows and pastures by streams. to do well. Nectar-rich flowers.

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Wet Wet Viola palustris Valeriana dioica

A perennial for wet areas. Pale lilac flowers A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-45cm. Pink April-July. Native in bogs, fens, marshes and flowers May-June. A shorter version of common wet heaths. Creeps to form small patches, good Valerian, giving ground cover. A herbal plant to nectar plant. aid sleep and restoration.

Purple Fritillaries. Pink Lesser Cream Wave Moth

282 MARSH FORGETMENOT 287 MARSH WOUNDWORT Myosotis secunda Stachys palustris A perennial for wet soils and waterside. Creeping over soil and water surface to form large mats. The blue flowers last most of the summer, first A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-60cm. appearing in late spring. A common species of Beetroot red and spotted flowers from June until upland Britain, rarer in the south, but our plant the first frosts. A native of streams and ditches originated from the Lea valley near the 2012 and in swamps and fens. A good late bee plant. Olympic Park.

Blue Red Speckled Yellow Moth

283 MARSH MARIGOLD 288 MARSH YELLOW CRESS Caltha palustris Rorhippa palustris

A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-45cm. Yellow flowers May-June. Native of marshes, A native of damp places throughout the British fens, ditches and wet woods. Flowers are rich Isles. Yellow flowers June to July, attractive to in nectar. bees. Food plant of the Orange Tip Butterfly.

Yellow Slender Striped Rufus Moth Yellow Orange Tip

284 MARSH PEA 289 MEADOW RUE lathyrus palustris Thalictrum flavum

Scrambling perennial of damp or marshy areas A perennial for wet areas. Height 60-100cm. with purplish flowers. Pollinated by long- White flowers June-August. Native of meadows tongued bumblebees and moths. and fens by streams.

Purple White Marsh Carpet Moth

285 MARSH PENNYWORT 290 MEADOWSWEET Hydrocotyle vulgaris Filipendula ulmaria

A perennial for wet areas. Height 60-100cm. A slender, creeping (sometimes floating) Fragrant cream flowers June-September. A good perennial for wet areas. . Pale pink flowers nectar source for late flying hoverflies and bees. June-August. Usually self pollinated. Native on The sap contains aspirin and can be sucked for acid soils throughout Britain. pain relief.

Scarlet Tiger Moth. Lesser Cream Wave Pink White Moth. Marsh Moth

40 www.wildflowers.co.uk 41 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 291 MILK PARSLEY 296 PURPLE MOOR GRASS

Peucedanum palustre Molinia caerulea Wet Wet

A biennial for wet areas. Height 50-150cm. A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-130cm. . White flowers July-September. All parts of the Violet-brown flowers June-August. Native to plant yield a watery-milky juice when young. damp or wet places in fens and heaths and on Native of fens and marshes. mountains.

Chequered Skipper. Large Ear Moth. Silver White Swallowtail Brown Barred Moth

292 MUD SEDGE 297 RAGGED ROBIN Carex limosa Lychnis flos-cuculi

A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-45cm. A creeping perennial. Height up to 30cm. Pink ragged flowers May- July. A common plant Flowers May-June. Native of very wet bogs. of damp meadows, marshes, fens and wet woods. Blue-grey leaves persist all year. Prefers moist dappled shade.

Brown Pink Lychnis Moth

293 PARSLEY WATER DROPWORT 298 REED CANARY GRASS Oenanthe lachenalii Phalaris arundincae

A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-100cm. White flowers June-September. Native of A perennial growing to between 60cm and 2m brackish and freshwater marshes and fens, high. Flowering June - August, occurs in streams scattered throughout the British Isles. and lakes. Quick-growing in the spring.

White Brown Southern Wainscott Moth

294 PENDULOUS SEDGE 299 REED SWEET GRASS Carex pendula Glyceria maxima

A perennial of damp shady places. Height 60- A grass of damp shade. Height 60-200cm. 150cm. . Russet flowers from June onwards. Creeping with flowers June-August. Native of Native of damp woods and on shady stream rivers, canals and large ponds usually in deeper banks. Forms a very graceful plant. water than other species.

Red Wainscott Moth Brown Reed Leopard Moth.

295 PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE 300 ROUND-HEADED CLUBRUSH Lythrum salicaria Scirpoides holoschoenus

A rare native perennial of damp, sandy places A perennial for wet sites. Height 45-120cm. near the sea in SW England. Height 45-60cm. Purple flowers June-August. Needs full sun to Flowers in globular clusters of tightly packed flower well. Really good nectar plant. spikelets June-October. Seeds remain all winter, making it a good structural plant.

Small Elephant Hawk Moth. Vapourer Purple Brown Red Sword Grass Moth Moth www.wildflowers.co.uk 42 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 43 301 SAW SEDGE 306 SNAKES HEAD FRITILARY

Wet Wet Cladium mariscus Fritillaria meleagris

A large sedge with flowering stems 1-3 m tall. Perennial wet areas Height 20-50cm. Plant 15 Dense clumps of saw sedge can be dangerous per square metre Flower colour Dull purple due to the sharp serrated leaves that can cut flesh. chequered dark and pale. Flowers April-May.

Brown Purple

302 SHARP FLOWERED RUSH 307 SNEEZEWORT Juncus acutiflorus Achillea ptarmica

A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-60cm. A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-60cm. White flowers June-October. Easy to grow and Chestnut brown flowers July-September. Native will tolerate almost any situation but best in of wet meadows and swampy woodlands. moist soils. Freely visited by bees and flies.

Brown White Silver Y Moth

303 SILVERWEED 308 SOFT RUSH Potentilla arserina Juncus effusus

A perennial for wet sites with creeping stems to 80cms. Yellow flowers June-September. Native A perennial of wet areas. Height 60cm. Tufted of waste places, roadsides, damp pastures,etc. with pale brown flowers June-August. Native of The leaves are silver and remain all year except wet pasture, bogs and damp woods. The core of when dry, but growth is rapid when ground the stems can be used to make tapers. becomes wet again.

Yellow Grizzled Skipper Brown Small Rufus Moth

304 SKULLCAP 309 SPIKED SEDGE Scutellaria galericulata Carex spicata

A perennial for wet areas. Height 15-30cm. A perennial of waste and semi shaded ground, Purple flowers June-September. Native of the meadows and marshes. Shiny brown flowers edges of streams and in fens and water meadows. June/ July. Often found on heavy soils overlaying Creeping rhizomes form good patches in sun or chalk or limestone. Remains green throughout shade. the winter.

Purple Water Betony Moth Brown

305 SMALL FRUITED YELLOW SEDGE 310 SQUARE STALKED ST. JOHN’S WORT Carex serotina Hypericum tetrapterum

A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-60cm. A perennial of wet habitats. Height 5-15cm. Yellow flowers July-September. Produces Plant 5 per square metre. Flowers June-August. slender stolons and spreads to form bright Will tolerate some salt and often found on upper clumps. Native of damp meadows, grassy places salt marshes. beside ponds and in marshes.

Brown Yellow Triple-Barred Pug Moth

42 www.wildflowers.co.uk 43 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 311 STAR SEDGE 316 TUFTED SEDGE

Carex echinata Carex elata Wet Wet

A tall 1 to 1.3m – perennial of marshes and A perennial of seasonally water-logged soils. waterside. Often growing in association with Height 10-40cm. . Yellow-green, shiny star Lesser Pond Sedge and can form extensive shaped flowers June-August. Common over stands. A useful plant for grey water treatment most of Britain. systems. The plant has yellow-green leaves and yellow flower spikes in July.

Yellow Yellow

312 SWEET FLAG 317 VALERIAN Acorus calamus Valeriana officinlis

An introduced perennial of wet places, ponds A perennial for moist soils. Height to 1.2 metres. and ditches. The leaves and rhizomes are Pale pink flowers June-August. Occurring in sweetly perfumed when bruised. The flowers are grassland and rough areas especially on damper yellowish green June - July. ground.

Yellow Pink Valerian Pug Moth. Tawny Wave Moth

313 TALL FESCUE 318 WATER AVENS Festuca arundinacea Geum rivale

A perennial for wet areas. Height 20-40cm. A perennial of rough and marginal ground. Peach-red flowers in May and seed heads like Height 90-120cm. Flowers June-August. raspberries all summer. Ideal for a wet shady Flowers in a panicle, often 45cm long. place, where it will soon provide groundcover.

Brown Morris’s Wainscott Moth Red Checkered Skipper Butterfly

314 TAWNY SEDGE 319 WATER FIGWORT Carex hostiana Scrophularia auriculata

A perennial of wet areas including marshes, fens A perennial for wet areas. Height 60 - 100cm. and damp flushes. Height 15-50cm. Loosely Small Purple/Yellow flowers June - October. tufted sedge with tawny flowers May-June. Pollinated by wasps. Food plant of the Figwort Native of fens and base rich flushes. Weevil

Brown Purple

315 TUFTED HAIR GRASS 320 WATER FORGET-ME-NOT Deschampsia cespitosa Myosotis scorpioides

A perennial of damp areas, including lowland damp meadows and marshes. Height 50-100cm. A perennial for wet areas. Height 15-30cm. Pale Flowers June-September. Sharp edges of leaves blue flowers May-September. Native of wet can cut flesh so care when planting near children. areas near streams and ponds. Will seed happily Good architectural plant for pond sides or damp in moist soil in shade. boarder.

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Wet Wet Mentha aquatica Solanum dulcamara

A perennial for wet areas. Height 30-40cm. Pink flowers July-October. Very strong fragrances A clambering shrubby perennial for damp areas. from all parts of the plant. Native in swamps, Height 30-120cm. Purple flowers with bright marshes, fens and wet woods and by rivers and yellow centres June-August. Shiny red berries ponds. until Autumn.

Large Ranunculus Moth. Water Ermine Pink Purple Moth

322 WATER PLANTAIN 327 YELLOW FLAG IRIS Alisma plantago Iris pseudacorus

A perennial for wet areas. Height 20-100cm. Plant 5 per square metre. Pale lilac flowers June- August. Flowers usually open between 1 and 7 A perennial for wet areas. Height 40-140cm. pm. Native on mud beside slow-flowing rivers, Yellow flowers May-July. Likes its roots in ponds, ditches and canals, in damp ground or water, but needs full sun to flower well. shallow water.

Belted Beauty. Water Ermine Moth. Red Lilac Yellow Sword Grass Moth

323 WATERCRESS 328 YELLOW LOOSESTRIFE Nasturtium officinale Lysimachia vulgaris Hairy perennial of damp ground usually found beside rivers, in fens and damp woodlands, growing to 100cm from creeping rhizomes. Perennial of slow flowing water and wet ground. Common except in the far North. Clusters of Creeping stems and white flowers. yellow flowers whose petals can occasionally have red borders appear from June to August. A good border plant if kept watered.

White Small White Yellow Dentated Pug Moth. Water Ermine Moth

324 WINTERCRESS 329 BABINGTONS LEEK Barbarea vulgaris Allium babingtonii

A biennial with shiny dark green leaves and A perennial for coastal sites. Height 60-100cm. yellow flowers in April – July. A common plant Pale purple or whitish flowers July-August. often found on poorly drained soils. Origin Kent. Native of sandy places near the coast.

Orange Tip Butterfly, Small White But- Yellow Purple Large Yellow Underwing terfly, and Garden Pebble Moth

325 WOOD SMALL REED 330 BITING STONECROP Calamagrostis epigejos Sedum acre

A native of damp woods, ditches and fens. Growing to 2m, but usually around 150cm tall.A A perennial for coastal sites. Height 2-10cm. perennial which forms tussocks with creeping Yellow flowers May-July. Needs a dry site on rhizomes. Dense flower spikes to 30cm and walls or in paving. purplish-brown flowers June-August. (Norfolk)

Purple Dusty Brocade Moth Yellow Feathered Ranunculus Moth

44 www.wildflowers.co.uk 45 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 331 BUCK’S-HORN PLANTAIN 336 HARE’S TAIL GRASS Plantago coronopus Lagurus ovatus Coastal Coastal An annual grass, possibly growing to 60cm but Perennial of coastal sites, height 20cm. Brownish usually shorter on sand dunes. A very ornamental flowers April-July. A native of coastal areas - grass with silky flowers and seed head. Flowers sandy soils and salt marshes. May-July and seed heads remain until first frost. A native plant from Guernsey.

Brown Brown

332 DUNE PANSY 337 HOUND’S TONGUE Viola tricolor spp curtsii Cynoglossum officinale A sub-species of our native heartsease pansy with paler,smaller flowers but much lower growing with more penetrating shoots. The flowers are A biennial for coastal sites. Height 30-60cm. mainly white with yellow and blue markings. Red-purple flowers June-August, followed by Flowers from May-September. Found on shingle large grey seeds, dispersed by birds and animals. beaches and dry chalky grassland usually by the The grey/green leaves are attractive too. coast, but also inland in Breckland of Norfolk and Suffolk.

Purple Red Scarlet Tiger Moth

333 ENGLISH STONECROP 338 JERSEY THRIFT Sedum anglicum Armeria arenaria A perennial for coastal sites, found only in the Channel Isles and Western France. Height 10- A low mat forming perennial for coastal sites. 30cm. Pink pom-pom flowers July-August. Height 2-5cm. . Pink flowers June-September. Jersey is warmer than the mainland and Usually found on rocky banks or sand dunes and protection may be needed. Visited for nectar by shingle beaches. Good nectar plant. various insects. Hardy in Norfolk as long as on well-drained soil.

Pink Apollo. Yellow-Ringed Carpet Moth Pink Thrift Clearwing Moth

334 EVENING PRIMROSE 339 LYME GRASS Oenothera biennis Leymus arenarius

A robust, glaucous grass of mobile sand dunes. A biennial for dry sites. Height 60-100cm. Growing to 1.5 metres, and flowering July- Yellow flowers June-September. Provides nectar August. A good plant for structure in the dry for night flying insects. Introduced. garden, but can be invasive.

Yellow Elephant Hawk Moth Brown Lyme Grass Moth

335 FENNEL 340 MARRAM GRASS Foeniculum vulgare Ammophila arenaria

The grass of sand dunes of all our coasts. Height Perennial of coastal sites, height 60-150cm. 60-120cm. Flowers July-August. Strongly Yellow flowers July-September. A good nectar rhizomatous pale green-blue-grey grass. plant and leaves can be used in cookery. Has a Stabilises mobile dunes and able to withstand strong, aniseed scent. arid conditions.

Yellow Brown Coast Dart Moth. Shore Wainscott Moth www.wildflowers.co.uk 46 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 47 341 MARSH MALLOW 346 ROCK SAMPHIRE Althaea officinalis Crithmum maritimum

Coastal Coastal A perennial for coastal sites. Height 40-80cm. Pink/mauve flowers August-September. A good A perennial for coastal sites. Height 10-20cm. feature plant for moist soils. Native of upper Lime yellow flowers June-October. Found on salt marshes and brackish marshes. Visited by Atlantic coasts on rocks and sand or shingle. various bees. The origin of the sweet ‘marsh- Leaves make a good pickle. mallow’.

Pink Marsh Mallow Moth. Pale Shoulder Moth Yellow

342NARROW BIRD’S FOOT TREFOIL 347 ROCK SEA LAVENDER Lotus glabra Limonium binervosum

A perennial for coastal sites. Height 15-30cm. Very similar to Lotus corniculatus (Bird’s Foot Lavender flowers July-September. Native on Trefoil) but with longer seed pods. Very rare. A maritime cliffs, rocks and stabilised shingle. necessary plant for some species of bee. Good for dry sunny places in your garden.

Common Blue, clouded yellow, wood Yellow white, green hairstreak, silver studded blue, Purple Ground Lackey Moth dingy skipper. 343 PRICKLY OXTONGUE 348 ROCK SEA SPURREY Picris ectioides Spergularia rupicola

A yellow-flowered, prickly plants of coastal areas A perennial for coastal sites. Height 3-10cm. and salty next to main roads. Al late flowering Pink flowers May-August. Native of maritime daisy family plant which provides late nectar and cliffs, rocks and walls. Excellent in dry, parched seeds taken by finches. sites.

Yellow Pink Shoulder-Striped Clover Moth

344 RED VALERIAN 349 ROSEROOT Centranthus ruber Rhodiola rosea

A perennial of sunny sites, especially hot dry places. Height 30-45cm. Red or less commonly A rhizomatous perennial of rocky places and sea white flowers June-August. Introduced from cliffs, grey leaves often tinged with purple and Southern Europe, and naturalised especially in yellow flowers. Growing to 30cm at flowering the West Country. Excellent nectar plant. time, loved by bees. A good plant for green roofs.

Red Large Ranunculus Moth Yellow

345 REFLEXED SALTMARSH GRASS 350 SALT MARSH RUSH Puccinella Distans Juncus gerardii

A perennial grass common in roadside verges A perennial of coastal sites. Height 10-20cm. where salt spray reproduces salt marsh Plant 5 per square metre. Dark brown flowers conditions. Growing 15-60cm high in dense June-July. Native of salt marshes from just below tufts. Flowers June-August. the high water mark of spring-tides.

Brown Brown

46 www.wildflowers.co.uk 47 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 351 SAND COUCH 356 SCURVY GRASS Elytrigia juncea Cochlearia officinalis Coastal Coastal A strongly rhizomatous grass of sand dunes A biennial/perennial for coastal areas. Height which helps bind the sand together and prevent 5-20cm. White to pale lilac flowers May-August. erosion. Flowers June to July. The seeds fall A native of salt marshes and cliffs and banks near when ripe but the leaves remain in all but the the sea. Was once eaten by sailors for its Vitamin coldest weather. C content.

Green White Cabbage Moth. Green-Veined White

352 SAND FESCUE 357 SEA ARROW GRASS Festuca arenaria Triglochin maritima

A perennial for coastal areas. Height 15-30cm. To 45cm tall rhizomous perennial found on sand Clump forming with flowers July-September. and shingle by the sea. Frequent on the coast of Native to salt marsh turf and grassy places on Britain. Blue-green leaves, flowers June - July. rocky shores.

Brown Brown Grey Chi Moth

353 SAND LEEK 358 SEA ASTER Allium scorodoprasum Aster tripolium

A perennial for coastal areas. Height 15-60cm. A perennial for coastal sites. Height 60-100cm. Small purple and yellow flowers July-October. Pink/mauve pom-pom flowers May-August. A common salt-marsh plant occurring also on Found on dunes and rocks near the sea. maritime cliffs and rocks. Often visited by many bees and flies.

Pink Large Yellow Underwing Purple Rosy Wave moth. Starwort Moth

354 SAND SEDGE 359 SEA CAMPION Carex arenaria Silene maritima

An extensively creeping perennial. Height 10- A perennial for coastal sites. Height 10-25cm. 40cm. Flowers June-July. A native of sandy White flowers June-August. A cushion forming places usually near the sea. plant ideal for rockeries and dry positions.

Brown White Marbled Coronet Moth. Netted Pug Moth

355 SCOTS LOVAGE 360 SEA CLUBRUSH Ligusticum scoticum Bolboschoenus maritimus

A perennial found near the coasts of northern Britain. Bright, shiny green leaves and white A robust perennial for saline habitats. Height 30- flowers June – July. Can be used as a culinary 100cm.Dark chocolate brown flowers June-July. herb like lovage. High vitamin c content.. It has Native in shallow water at the muddy margins of a reputation as an aphrodisiac? Origin the Black tidal rivers and in ditches and ponds near the sea. Isle.

White Brown www.wildflowers.co.uk 48 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 49 361 SEA COUCH 366 SEA PLANTAIN Elytrigia atherica Plantago maritima Coastal Coastal A perennial for coastal sites. Height 12-20cm. A perennial of coastal sites on the edges of dunes Green-yellow flowers June-August. Native of and salt marshes. Height 1m. Flowers June- salt marshes but often found on the edges of August. Leaves usually in rolled to give a tubular salted roads. Unopened flower buds can be used appearance. as a mushroom substitute in cooking.

Brown Yellow Ground Lackey Moth. Mullein Wave Moth

362 SEA HOLLY 367 SEA RUSH Eryngium maritimum Juncus maritima

A perennial for coastal sites. Height 60cm. Plant A blue-green leaved rush flund only in saline 3 per square metre. Grey-blue flowers June- condition near the sea. Brown flowers close to August. Will keep its seed heads until a high tide the stem in July. Leaves keep green all winter or high winds. Native of sandy and shingle soils. and from dense clumps.

Blue Brown

363 SEA KALE 368 SHARP RUSH Crambe maritima Juncus acutus

A perennial for coastal sites. Height 40-60cm. A perennial for coastal sites. Height 25-150cm. .

Plant 3 per square metre. Coastal Large, waxy grey Reddish brown flowers in June. Native of sandy leaves, white flowers June-July. Found on most sea shores and dune slacks. Extremely sharp- of our coasts and once used as a vegetable. pointed leaves.TAKE CARE !

White Brown

364 SEA LAVENDER 369 SHEEP’S BIT SCABIOUS Limonium vulgare Jasione montana

The commonest sea lavender, seen on all our salt An annual/short lived perennial for coastal sites. marshes as a purple sea in August.Dying back to Height 10-15cm. Blue flowers May-August. a basal rosette in winter as soon as temeratures Native of grassy places on light sandy soils or drop below 7C. A good nectar plant for bees stony lime free soils, in rough pasture, on heaths, which will grow well in pots and borders as long cliffs and banks. Rich in nectar and visited by as they are kept damp. (Norfolk) many bees.

Purple Thrift Clearwing Moth Blue Coast Dart Moth

365 SEA MILKWORT 370 SOAPWORT Glaux maritima Saponaria officinalis

Perennial of coastal sites, height 10 cm. White and pink flowers June-August. A relative of the A perennial of coastal sites. Height 30-90cm. Soft primrose but found in saline habitats. Forms pink flowers August-October. The sap makes cushions in a sunny site. really soft soap for washing delicate items.

White Sand Dart Moth Pink Campion Moth

48 www.wildflowers.co.uk 49 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 371 SPRING SQUILL 376 WHITE STONECROP Scilla verna Sedum album Coastal A perennial for coastal sites. Height 5-15cm. A perennial for coastal sites. Height 5-20cm. Dark blue - purple flowers April-May. Found on White flowers May-August. A native of dry calcareous coastal soils. Slowly makes ground sandy places, rocks and stony ground. Good for cover if left to self seed. bees.

Blue White Scotch Annulet Moth

372 STINKING IRIS 377 WILD CABBAGE Iris foetidissima Brassica oleracea

A species of Iris found in open woodland, hedge banks and sea-cliffs. The capsules, which remain A biennial/perennial for coastal sites. Height 60- attached to the plant throughout the winter, are 200cm. Yellow flowers June-September. Possibly 5-8 cm long; and the seeds scarlet. It is known native but likely to have been introduced by the as “stinking” because some people find the smell Romans. Found on calcareous cliffs around of its leaves unpleasant when crushed or bruised. southern Britain. Hardy in most gardens.

Blue Yellow

373 STRAWBERRY CLOVER 378 WILD CELERY Trifolium fragiferum Apium graveolens

A clover with flower head slightly smaller than White Clover (T. repens), but individual flowers A biennial for wet areas. Height 30-60cm. are much pinker, especially when in bud. When Greenish-white flowers June-August. Native of the flowers have finished the sepals become damp places, by rivers and ditches, especially inflated, so that the seed-head resembles a dull near the sea. pink, papery strawberry.

Pink Heart and Club Agrostis Moth Green

374 TALL MELILOT 379 WILD CHIVES Melilotus altissimus Allium schoenoprasum

An introduced perennial, up to 1.5 metres in flowering. Yellow pea-like flowers June - A perennial for sunny sites. Height 10-25cm. September. A casual plant in coastal areas and Pale purple or pink flowers June-July. Native on on waste ground, but rich in nectar. rocky pastures, usually on limestone.

Yellow Pink Leek Moth

Symbol Key 375 THRIFT Plants that favour full Plants that are food Armeria maritima sun. sources for larvae.

Plants for areas of semi Producers of nectar to A perennial for coastal sites. Height 10-30cm. - shade. attract insects. Pink, occasionally white flowers April-October. Flowers are fragrant and rich in nectar. Coastal conditions Plants for full shade including where salt is such as beneath trees. prevalent.

Predominant Flower Pink Thrift Clearwing Moth. Black-Banded Plants for marginal or Pink Wave Moth even wetter areas. Colour www.wildflowers.co.uk 50 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Scientific Name Look-Up List

Achillea millefolium YARROW Pink Anthyllis vulneraria KIDNEY VETCH Yellow 144 069

Achillea ptarmica SNEEZEWORT White Apium graveolens WILD CELERY Green 307 378

Acorus calamus SWEET FLAG Yellow Apium nodiflorum FOOL’S WATERCRESS White 312 262

Adoxa moschatellina MOSCHATEL Green Aquilegia vulgaris COLUMBINE Purple 210 190

Agrimonia eupatoria AGRIMONY Yellow Arabis glabra TOWER MUSTARD Yellow 002 128

Agrimonia procera FRAGRANT AGRIMONY Yellow Arctium minus LESSER BURDOCK Red 159 170

Agrostema githago CORNCOCKLE Magenta Armeria arenaria JERSEY THRIFT Pink 028 338

Agrostis capillaris COMMON BENT Green Armeria maritima THRIFT Pink 022 375

Ajuga reptans BUGLE Purple Arrhenatherum elatius FALSE OAT GRASS Brown 151 157

Alchemilla vulgaris LADY’S MANTLE Green Arum maculatum LORDS AND LADIES White 071 208

Alisma plantago WATER PLANTAIN Lilac Aster tripolium SEA ASTER Purple 322 358

Alliaria petiolata HEDGE GARLIC White Atropa belladonna DEADLY NIGHTSHADE Purple 166 192

Allium babingtonii BABINGTONS LEEK Purple Barbarea vulgaris WINTERCRESS Yellow 329 324

Allium schoenoprasum WILD CHIVES Pink Bellis perennis DAISY White 379 035

Allium scorodoprasum SAND LEEK Pink Berberis vulgaris BERBERIS Yellow 353 149

Allium ursinum RAMSONS White Bolboschoenus maritimus SEA CLUBRUSH Brown 180 360

Allium vineale CROW GARLIC Pink Brachypodium sylvaticum WOOD FALSE-BROME Green 034 227

Alopecurus pratensis MEADOW FOXTAIL Purple Brassica oleracea WILD CABBAGE Yellow 085 377

Althaea officinalis MARSH MALLOW Pink Briza media QUAKING GRASS Brown 341 096

Ammophila arenaria MARRAM GRASS Brown Bromus ramosa WOOD BROME Green 340 224

Anemone nemorosa WOOD ANENOME White Calamagrostis epigejos WOOD SMALL REED Purple 222 325

Angelica sylvestris ANGELICA Pink Calamintha sylvatica WOOD CALAMINT Pink 236 225

Anthemis arvensis CORN CHAMOMILE White Caltha palustris MARSH MARIGOLD Yellow 026 283

CLUSTERED Anthoxanthum odoratum SWEET VERNAL GRASS Green Campanula glomerata Purple

124 020 BELLFLOWER

Anthriscus sylvestris COW PARSLEY White Campanula latifolia GIANT BELLFLOWER Blue 155 198 www.wildflowers.co.uk 51 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 SMALL FRUITED YELLOW Campanula rotundifolia HAREBELL Blue Carex serotina Brown

057 305 SEDGE

NETTLE-LEAVED Campanula trachelium Purple Carex spicata SPIKED SEDGE Brown 211 BELLFLOWER 309

Cardamine pratensis LADY’S SMOCK Pink Carex sylvatica WOOD SEDGE Green 275 230

LONG STALKED YELLOW Carex acutiformis LESSER POND SEDGE Brown Carex viridula Yellow

276 278 SEDGE

Carex arenaria SAND SEDGE Brown Carlina vulgaris CARLINE THISTLE Yellow 354 014

Carex binervis GREEN-RIBBED SEDGE Pink Centaurea cyanus CORNFLOWER Blue 271 029

Carex demissa COMMON YELLOW SEDGE Yellow Centaurea nigra LESSER KNAPWEED Purple 251 072

Carex dioica DIOECIOUS SEDGE Brown Centaurea scabiosa GREATER KNAPWEED Purple 256 055

Carex divulsa ssp divulsa GREY SEDGE Brown Centaurium erythraea CENTAURY Pink 161 016

Carex echinata STAR SEDGE Yellow Centranthus ruber RED VALERIAN Red 311 344

Carex elata TUFTED SEDGE Yellow Chamaemelum nobile CHAMOMILE White 316 017

Carex flacca GLAUCOUS SEDGE Brown Chamerion angustifolium ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB Magenta 264 103

Carex hirta HAIRY SEDGE Green Cheiranthus cheiri WILD WALLFLOWER Yellow 201 142

Carex hostiana TAWNY SEDGE Brown Chelidonium majus GREATER CELANDINE Yellow 314 054

Carex limosa MUD SEDGE Brown Chicorum intybus CHICORY Blue 292 019

Carex nigra COMMON SEDGE Green Chrysanthemum segetum CORN MARIGOLD Yellow 249 027

OPPOSITE LEAVED Carex otrubae FALSE FOX SEDGE Brown Chrysosplenium oppositifolium Green

257 177 GOLDEN SAXIFRAGE

ENCHANTER’S Carex ovalis OVAL SEDGE Green Circaea lutetiana Pink

212 195 NIGHTSHADE

Carex pallescens PALE SEDGE Green Circium helenoides MELANCHOLY THISTLE Purple 214 173

GREATER TUSSOCK Carex paniculata Brown Cladium mariscus SAW SEDGE Brown

270 SEDGE 301

Carex pendula PENDULOUS SEDGE Red Clematis vitalba WILD CLEMATIS Green 294 139

Carex pseudocyperus CYPERUS SEDGE Brown Clinopodium vulgare BASIL Pink 254 006

Carex pulicaris FLEA SEDGE Brown Cochlearia officinalis SCURVY GRASS White 259 356

Carex remota REMOTE SEDGE Brown Conium maculatum HEMLOCK White 217 168

Carex riparia GREATER POND SEDGE Brown Conopodium majus PIGNUT White 269 094 www.wildflowers.co.uk 52 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 53 Convallaria majalis LILY OF THE VALLEY White Eriophorum angustifolium COTTON GRASS White 207 253

Crambe maritima SEA KALE White Eryngium maritimum SEA HOLLY Blue 363 362

Crithmum maritimum ROCK SAMPHIRE Yellow Euonymus europaeus SPINDLE TREE Green 346 181

Cruciata laevipes CROSSWORT Yellow Eupatorium cannabinum HEMP AGRIMONY Pink 156 274

Cymbalaria muralis IVY-LEAVED TOADFLAX Purple Festuca arenaria SAND FESCUE Brown 067 352

Cynoglossum officinale HOUND’S TONGUE Red Festuca arundinacea TALL FESCUE Brown 337 313

Cynosurus crisatus CRESTED DOG’S TAIL Brown Festuca ovina SHEEP’S FESCUE Brown 111 032

Cytisus scoparius BROOM Yellow Festuca pratensis MEADOW FESCUE Brown 013 084

Dactylis glomerata COCKSFOOT GRASS Green Festuca rubra RED FESCUE Brown 154 098

VIVIPAROUS SHEEP’S Daucus carota WILD CARROT White Festuca vivipara Brown

137 132 FESCUE

Deschampsia cespitosa TUFTED HAIR GRASS Brown Filipendula ulmaria MEADOWSWEET White 315 290

Deschampsia flexuosa WAVY HAIR GRASS Brown Filipendula vulgaris DROPWORT Pink 133 040

Dianthus armeria DEPTFORD PINK Pink Foeniculum vulgare FENNEL Yellow 038 335

Dianthus deltoides MAIDEN PINK Pink Fragaria vesca WILD STRAWBERRY White 078 186

Dianthus gratianopolitanus CHEDDAR PINK Pink Fritillaria meleagris SNAKES HEAD FRITILARY Purple 018 306

Digitalis purpurea FOXGLOVE Red Galanthus nivalis SNOWDROP White 197 220

Dipsacus fullonum TEASEL Purple Galega officianalis GOATS RUE Pink 126 050

Dipsacus pilosus SMALL TEASEL White Galium boreale NORTHERN BEDSTRAW White 116 175

Echium vulgare VIPERS BUGLOSS Blue Galium mollugo HEDGE BEDSTRAW White 131 165

Eleocharis palustris COMMON SPIKE RUSH Brown Galium odoratum WOODRUFF White 250 232

Elytrigia atherica SEA COUCH Brown Galium verum LADY’S BEDSTRAW Yellow 361 070

Elytrigia juncea SAND COUCH Green Gallium palustre MARSH BEDSTRAW White 351 279

Epilobium hirsutum GREAT WILLOWHERB Magenta Genista tinctoria DYERS GREENWEED Yellow 267 041

Eranthus hyemalis WINTER ACONITE Yellow Geranium pratense MEADOW CRANESBILL Blue 187 083

Erigeron acer BLUE FLEABANE Blue Geranium pyrenaicum HEDGEROW CRANESBILL Magenta 010 167

52 www.wildflowers.co.uk 53 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Geranium robertianum HERB ROBERT Pink Iris pseudacorus YELLOW FLAG IRIS Yellow 204 327

Geranium sylvaticum WOOD CRANESBILL Magenta Isatis tinctoria WOAD Yellow 226 143

Geranium versicolor PENCILLED CRANESBILL Purple Jasione montana SHEEP’S BIT SCABIOUS Blue 179 369

Geum rivale WATER AVENS Red Juncus acutiflorus SHARP FLOWERED RUSH Brown 318 302

Geum urbanum WOOD AVENS Yellow Juncus acutus SHARP RUSH Brown 223 368

Glaux maritima SEA MILKWORT White Juncus articulatus ARTICULATED RUSH Brown 365 237

Glechoma hederacea GROUND IVY Purple Juncus bulbosus BULBOUS RUSH Brown 200 243

Glyceria fluitans FLOATING SWEET GRASS Green Juncus conglomeratus COMPACT RUSH Brown 261 252

Glyceria maxima REED SWEET GRASS Brown Juncus effusus SOFT RUSH Brown 299 308

Hedera helix IVY Green Juncus gerardii SALT MARSH RUSH Brown 206 350

Helianthemum nummularium ROCK ROSE Yellow Juncus inflexus HARD RUSH Brown 102 273

Hieracium agg. HAWKWEED Yellow Juncus maritima SEA RUSH Brown 058 367

Hieronchloe odorata HOLY GRASS Green Knautia arvensis FIELD SCABIOUS Blue 064 046

Hippocrepis comosa HORSESHOE VETCH Yellow Koeleria macrantha CRESTED HAIR GRASS Green 066 033

Holcus lanatus YORKSHIRE FOG Brown Lagurus ovatus HARE’S TAIL GRASS Brown 147 336

Humulus lupulus HOPS Green Lamiastrum galiobdolon YELLOW ARCHANGEL Yellow 205 188

Hyacinthoides non-scripta BLUEBELL Blue Lamium album WHITE DEAD-NETTLE White 189 221

BROAD-LEAVED Hydrocotyle vulgaris MARSH PENNYWORT Pink Lathyrus latifolius Pink

285 012 EVERLASTING SWEET PEA

Hypericum ellipticum PALE ST JOHNS WORT Yellow lathyrus palustris MARSH PEA Purple 178 284

Hypericum hirsutum HAIRY ST. JOHN’S WORT Yellow Lathyrus pratensis MEADOW VETCHLING Yellow 164 087

PERFORATE ST JOHN’S Hypericum perforatum Yellow Leontodon autumnalis AUTUMN HAWKBIT Yellow

093 WORT 004

SQUARE STALKED ST. Hypericum tetrapterum Yellow Leontodon hispidus ROUGH HAWKBIT Yellow

310 JOHN’S WORT 104

Hypochaeris radicata COMMON CATSEAR Yellow Leonurus cardiaca MOTHERWORT White 023 174

Inula helenium ELECAMPANE Yellow Leucanthemum vulgare OXEYE DAISY White 042 092

Iris foetidissima STINKING IRIS Blue Leymus arenarius LYME GRASS Brown 372 339 www.wildflowers.co.uk 54 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 55 Ligusticum scoticum SCOTS LOVAGE White Medicago lupulina BLACK MEDICK Yellow 355 008

Ligustrum vulgare WILD PRIVET White Medicago sativa LUCERNE Purple 185 077

Lilium martagon MARTAGON LILY Purple Melica uniflora WOOD MELICK Green 209 229

Limonium binervosum ROCK SEA LAVENDER Purple Melilotus altissimus TALL MELILOT Yellow 347 374

Limonium vulgare SEA LAVENDER Purple Mentha aquatica WATER MINT Pink 364 321

Linaria purpurea PURPLE TOADFLAX Purple Mentha arvensis FIELD MINT White 095 044

Linaria vulgaris YELLOW TOADFLAX Yellow Mercurialis perennis DOG’S MERCURY Green 146 194

Lithospermum officinale GROMWELL Blue Molinia caerulea PURPLE MOOR GRASS Brown 162 296

Lonicera periclymenum HONEYSUCKLE White Myosotis arvensis FIELD FORGETMENOT Blue 065 043

Lotus corniculatus BIRD’S FOOT TREFOIL Yellow Myosotis scorpioides WATER FORGET-ME-NOT Blue 007 320

NARROW BIRD’S FOOT Lotus glabra Yellow Myosotis secunda MARSH FORGETMENOT Blue

342 TREFOIL 282

GREATER BIRD’S FOOT Lotus uliginosus Yellow Myosotis sylvatica WOOD FORGET-ME-NOT Blue

268 TREFOIL 228

Luzula campestris FIELD WOODRUSH Red Myrrhis odorata SWEET CICELY White 158 183

Luzula multiflora HEATH WOODRUSH Brown Nardus stricta MATT GRASS Brown 061 080

Luzula pilosa HAIRY WOODRUSH Brown Nasturtium officinale WATERCRESS White 202 323

Luzula sylvatica WOODRUSH Brown Nepeta cataria CATMINT White 233 015

PARSLEY WATER Lychnis flos-cuculi RAGGED ROBIN Pink Oenanthe lachenalii White

297 293 DROPWORT

Lychnis viscaria STICKY CATCHFLY Pink Oenothera biennis EVENING PRIMROSE Yellow 121 334

FRAGRANT EVENING Lycopus europeus GIPSYWORT White Oenothera stricta Yellow

263 048 PRIMROSE

Lysimachia nemorum YELLOW PIMPERNEL Yellow Onobrychis viciifolia SAINFOIN Pink 235 107

Lysimachia nummularia CREEPING JENNY Yellow Ononis spinosa SPINY REST-HARROW Pink 191 120

Lysimachia vulgaris YELLOW LOOSESTRIFE Yellow Origanum vulgare MARJORAM Pink 328 079

Lythrum salicaria PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE Purple Oxalis acetosella WOOD SORREL White 295 231

Malva moschata MUSK MALLOW Pink Papaver rhoeas FIELD POPPY Red 090 045

Malva sylvestris COMMON MALLOW Pink Pastinaca sativa WILD PARSNIP Yellow 024 140

54 www.wildflowers.co.uk 55 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Persicaria bistorta BISTORT Pink Primula elatior OXLIP Yellow 238 213

Peucedanum palustre MILK PARSLEY White Primula scotica SCOTTISH PRIMROSE Purple 291 219

Phalaris arundincae REED CANARY GRASS Brown Primula veris COWSLIP Yellow 298 030

Phleum bertolonii SMALL TIMOTHY Green Primula vulgaris PRIMROSE Yellow 117 215

Phragmites australis COMMON REED Purple Prunella vulgaris SELFHEAL Red 110 248

ROUND HEADED REFLEXED SALTMARSH Phyteuma orbiculare Purple Puccinella Distans Brown

106 RAMPION 345 GRASS

Picris ectioides PRICKLY OXTONGUE Yellow Pulicaria dysenterica FLEABANE Yellow 343 260

Pilosella aurantiaca FOX & CUBS Orange Ranunculus acris MEADOW BUTTERCUP Yellow 047 081

Pilosella officinarum MOUSEAR HAWKWEED Yellow Ranunculus ficaria LESSER CELANDINE Yellow 089 171

Pimpinella major BURNET SAXIFRAGE Pink Ranunculus flammula LESSER SPEARWORT Yellow 152 277

CELERY-LEAVED Plantago coronopus BUCK’S-HORN PLANTAIN Brown Ranunculus sceleratus Yellow

331 245 BUTTERCUP

Plantago lanceolata RIBWORT PLANTAIN Brown Reseda luteola WELD Yellow 100 134

Plantago maritima SEA PLANTAIN Yellow Rhodiola rosea ROSEROOT Yellow 366 349

Plantago media HOARY PLANTAIN White Rorhippa palustris MARSH YELLOW CRESS Yellow 063 288

SMOOTH STALKED Poa pratensis Brown Rubia peregrina MADDER Yellow 118 MEADOW GRASS 172

Poa trivialis ROUGH MEADOW GRASS Brown Rumex acetosa SORREL Red 119 105

Polemonium caeruleum JACOBS LADDER Purple Rumex acetosella SHEEP’S SORREL Red 112 068

Potentilla argentea HOARY CINQUEFOIL Yellow Rumex hydrolapathum GREAT WATER DOCK Red 062 266

Potentilla arserina SILVERWEED Yellow Salvia pratensis MEADOW CLARY Blue 303 082

Potentilla erecta TORMENTIL Yellow Salvia verbenaca WILD CLARY Blue 127 138

Potentilla fruticosa SHRUBBY CINQUEFOIL Yellow Samolus valerandi BROOKWEED White 113 242

Potentilla palustris MARSH CINQUEFOIL Purple Sanguisorba minor ssp minor SALAD BURNET Red 280 108

Potentilla recta SULPHUR CINQUEFOIL Yellow Sanguisorba officinalis GREAT BURNET Red 122 053

Potentilla reptans CREEPING CINQUEFOIL Yellow Sanicula europaea SANICLE White 031 218

Potentilla rupestris ROCK CINQUEFOIL White Saponaria officinalis SOAPWORT Pink 101 370 www.wildflowers.co.uk 56 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 57 Saxifraga granulata MEADOW SAXIFRAGE White Solanum dulcamara WOODY NIGHTSHADE Purple 086 326

Scabiosa columbaria SMALL SCABIOUS Blue Solidago virgaurea GOLDENROD Yellow 115 051

Schoenoplectus lacustris COMMON CLUBRUSH Brown Sparganium erectum BRANCHED BUR-REED Green 247 240

Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani GREY CLUBRUSH Brown Spergularia rupicola ROCK SEA SPURREY Pink 272 348

Schoenus nigricans BLACK BOGRUSH Brown Stachys germanica DOWNY WOUNDWORT Pink 239 039

Scilla autumnalis AUTUMN SQUILL Magenta Stachys officinalis BETONY Magenta 005 150

Scilla verna SPRING SQUILL Blue Stachys palustris MARSH WOUNDWORT Red 371 287

ROUND-HEADED Scirpoides holoschoenus Brown Stachys sylvatica HEDGE WOUNDWORT Magenta

300 CLUBRUSH 203

Scrophularia auriculata WATER FIGWORT Purple Stachys x ambigua HYBRID WOUNDWORT Pink 319 169

Scrophularia nodosa FIGWORT Green Stellaria graminea LESSER STITCHWORT White 196 075

Scutellaria galericulata SKULLCAP Purple Stellaria holostea GREATER STITCHWORT White 304 199

Scutellaria minor LESSER SKULLCAP Pink Succisa pratensis DEVIL’S BIT SCABIOUS Purple 074 255

Sedum acre BITING STONECROP Yellow Symphytum officinale COMFREY White 330 246

Sedum album WHITE STONECROP White Tanacetum vulgare TANSY Yellow 376 125

Sedum anglicum ENGLISH STONECROP Pink Taraxacum officinale DANDELION Yellow 333 036

Sedum rupestre REFLEXED STONECROP Yellow Teucrium scorodonia WOODSAGE Yellow 099 234

CAMBRIDGE MILK Selinum carvifolia White Thalictrum alpinum ALPINE MEADOW RUE Yellow

244 PARSLEY 003

Sesleria caerulea BLUE MOOR GRASS Purple Thalictrum flavum MEADOW RUE White 011 289

Silene alba WHITE CAMPION White Thalictrum minus LESSER MEADOW RUE Green 135 073

Silene dioica RED CAMPION Pink Thymus polytrichus WILD THYME Purple 216 141

SMALL FLOWERED Silene gallica White Torilis japonica UPRIGHT HEDGE PARSLEY White 114 CATCHFLY 184

Silene maritima SEA CAMPION White Tragopogon porrifolius SALSIFY Purple 359 109

NIGHT-FLOWERING Silene noctiflora Yellow Tragopogon pratensis GOATS BEARD Yellow

091 CATCHFLY 049

Silene nutans NOTTINGHAM CATCHFLY Green Trifolium dubium LESSER TREFOIL Yellow 176 076

Silene vulgaris BLADDER CAMPION White Trifolium fragiferum STRAWBERRY CLOVER Pink 009 373

56 www.wildflowers.co.uk 57 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Trifolium medium ZIG ZAG CLOVER Pink Viola persicifolia FEN VIOLET Purple 148 258

Trifolium ochroleucon SULPHUR CLOVER Yellow Viola riviniana DOG VIOLET Purple 123 193

HEARTSEASE - WILD Trifolium pratense RED CLOVER Red Viola tricolor Yellow

097 059 PANSY

Trifolium repens WHITE CLOVER White Viola tricolor spp curtsii DUNE PANSY Purple 136 332

Triglochin maritima SEA ARROW GRASS Brown Planting Tool 357

Trisetum flavescens YELLOW OAT GRASS Green 145

Trollius europaeus GLOBEFLOWER Yellow 265

Tussilago farfara COLTSFOOT Yellow 021

Ulex europeus GORSE yellow 052

Urtica dioica STINGING NETTLE White 182

Valeriana dioica MARSH VALERIAN Pink 286

Valeriana officinlis VALERIAN Pink 317

Verbascum blatteria MOTH MULLEIN Yellow 088 A welded steel tool, especially designed for planting Verbascum nigrum DARK MULLEIN Yellow our sized plugs. Use the tool to easily remove the exact 037 amount and shape of earth or turf and simply drop the plug into the hole. Makes large planting jobs a breeze Verbascum thapsus AARONS ROD Yellow 001 and easier on the back!

Verbena officinalis VERVAIN Purple 130

Veronica beccabunga BROOKLIME Blue 241

Veronica chamaedrys GERMANDER SPEEDWELL Purple 160

Veronica officinalis HEATH SPEEDWELL Purple 060

Vibernum opulus GUELDER ROSE White 163

Viccia sepium BUSH VETCH Purple 153

Vicia cracca TUFTED VETCH Blue 129

Vicia sativa COMMON VETCH Pink 025

Viola hirta HAIRY VIOLET Purple 056

Viola palustris MARSH DOG VIOLET Purple 281 www.wildflowers.co.uk 58 Tel/Fax:(01603)716615 Terms & Conditions of Business

Substitutions We try not to do this, but occasionally we will run out of a particular species, or size of container. For example, where plugs are ordered and species is only available as a pot-grown plant, we will send equal value of pots as a substitute unless asked not to do so. You can choose this or give us an alternative, or decide to wait for plugs to be available. Some species are only available as pots.

Delivery We use Palletways pallet network and our own transport to deliver large consignments nation-wide, next day after dispatch. Offshore locations take longer and cost more. If you live in an offshore location please call us for a shipping quote. We are also able to deliver to mainland Europe.

Retail orders are dispatched by Interlink Express Parcels on a next day delivery service. If you will not be in to recieve your parcel it can be left in a safe place or at an alternative address. We try to avoid having the plants sent back to the depot for later collection as this might affect their quality. Delivery is available Tuesday to Friday between 8am and 6pm. Before 9:30, before Noon and Saturday deliveries are available but at extra cost.

You can collect from the nursery, provided you give us a few days notice to get your order ready.

Payment Payment can be made by credit/debit card. We accept all major cards including; Switch/Maestro/Solo, MasterCard, Visa/Visa Debit/Visa Electron, JCB and American Express. Telephone and online orders can be accepted using any of these cards. Mail orders must be paid for, in full, before dispatch.

Trade Accounts Trade accounts are strictly 28 days unless otherwise agreed. A late payment charge of 5% per 28 days (or part thereof) will be ap- plied. Contact us on (01603)716615 or visit our website to apply for a credit account. Trade accounts are subject to status and we may use a credit reference agency and take up references before an account is opened. VAT registration number : 676 9650 74

Guarantee / Liability We believe that all plants are supplied in good condition and are of reliable quality. The Company will not be responsible for their health and welfare after the acceptance of delivery nor will the company be responsible for the replacement of any plants which fail to grow due to unsuitable soil conditions, adverse weather, vandalism, damage, neglect or any other cause beyond our control. Consignments must be carefully examined on receipt and any complaint notified by telephone within 24 hours and confirmed in writing within 7 days. Our liability for plants supplied is limited, at our option, to the replacement of those plants or to a refund of the price paid. Normally, plants will need to be returned before a refund is granted. Orders made by official company purchase order systems cannot be cancelled once delivery has taken place, unless there is an issue with quality or damage.

Important Notes All prices are subject to alteration without notice. Up to date prices can always be found on our website at http://www.wildflow- ers.co.uk

This catalogue replaces all previous issues.

The placing of an order implies the acceptance of these terms and conditions E&OE

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