Churchyard wildlife

Meadow saxifrage Pignut Burnet-saxifrage Lady’s bedstraw Oxeye daisy Saxifraga granulata majus Pimpinella saxifraga Galium verum Leucanthemum vulgare : April to June. Flowers: May to June. Flowers: July to September. Flowers: July to August. Flowers: May to September. Delicate, white, five petalled flowers and Flowers white in an shape. Stem Flowers white in loose umbel. Opposite Small, narrow that appear in whorls Long-stalked slightly hairy spoon-shaped long stalked, kidney shaped leaves. leaves delicate, fine and deeply cut. basal leaves, with oval toothed leaves. on its angular stems, with dense clusters of toothed leaves. The is between 20cm yellow flowers. and 70cm tall.

Cowslip Primrose Germander speedwell Bulbous buttercup Barren strawberry Primula veris Primula vulgaris Veronica chamaedrys Ranunculus bulbosus Potentilla sterilis Flowers: April to May. Flowers: March to June. Flowers: March to July. Flowers: April to June. Flowers: February to May. Green, crinkly texture, tongue-like leaves Rosette of wrinkled spoon-shaped leaves, 8 Upright spikes of bright blue flowers with Distinguished from the other buttercups Three separate leaves with top tooth of low to the ground. to 15cm long, unstalked, narrowing gradually four petals and a white middle. by its grooved stalk and sepals that shorter than those on either side. to base. pont down across the stem.

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Maiden’s hair spleenwort Black spleenwort Chicken-of-the-woods Chanterelle Scarlet waxcap Asplenium trichomanes Asplenium adiantum-nigrum Laetiporus sulphureus Cantharellus cibarius Hygrocybe coccinea Easy to recognise with its long fronds Evergreen fern, with light green leaves. An orange or sulphur-yellow coloured Easily identified by the rich egg-yolk yellow Bright red in colour with distinguished well- made up of short, round leaflets paired The stems have two groove markings from bracket fungus, usually found growing on colouration and the deep, yellow, blunt- spaced, thick waxy gills. Nearly always from the black stem. above. beech, oak, and yew trees. edged wrinkles that run from the cap down found on grasslands or grassy woodland the stem and they smell faintly of apricots. glades.

Beefsteak fungus Crustose lichen Crustose lichen Crustose lichen Foliose lichen Fistulina hepatica Caloplaca flavescens Opegrapha calcarea Haematomma ochroleucon var Collema auriculatum A bracket fungus aptly named after its One of the commonest and most A lichen often found on the north walls of porphyrium One of the ‘jelly lichens’, prefers limestone likeness to a piece of prime beef. Can be conspicuous lichens in churchyards. Grows churches especially on the softer mortars Found on sandstone headstones and north and tends to occur on table tombs and found on dead oaks or sweet chestnut on limestone headstones and on mortar occasionally also on headstones. walls of churches. When present can often on the lower drip courses, likes a certain trees. and limestone on church walls. Prefers the cover large areas of a headstone. amount of moisture. sunnier aspects.

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Saving Norfolk’s Wildlife for the Future