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Fireweed
by Mick Garratt
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The pinks of the Rosebay Willowherb are a common sight in summer but often... (more)
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Bluebell seedpods
by Bob Harvey
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Hyacinthoides non-scripta may be one of our most popular wildflower subjects,... (more)
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Urtica dioica
by Bob Harvey
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Flowers of the Stinging Nettle.
A spectacularly well-known plant, the genus... (more)
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Colt's-foot
by Lairich Rig
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Mystery plant - a Mitella species?
by Humphrey Bolton
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This plant is very similar to Mitrewort, which is native to the USA. Perhaps it... (more)
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Heracleum sphondylium - the leaves and stem
by Bob Harvey
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The perils of perpendicularity
by Bob Harvey
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It's a huge investment for a plant, growing tall. It seeks to elevate... (more)
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Primula vulgaris
by Bob Harvey
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Emerging spring plants
by Bob Harvey
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Primulae and other annual plants are peeping through the leaf litter: this truly... (more)
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Galium odoratum
by Bob Harvey
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The Sweet Woodruff is popular plant for garden ground cover, but is a native... (more)
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Cabbage Tree and Giant Viper's Bugloss at Achamore
by M J Richardson
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Two plants [Cordyline australis, from New Zealand and Echium pininana, from the... (more)
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Round-leaved Sundew
by M J Richardson
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An insectivorous plant of wet acid peaty places [Drosera rotundifolia]. Sundews... (more)
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Giant Hogweeds
by William Starkey
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A stand of giant hogweed plants growing beside the railway near Perth. This... (more)
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Tellima grandiflora plants, Gomersa Lane, Gomersal
by Humphrey Bolton
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Since identifying this plant, with the help of an expert member of the Yorkshire... (more)
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Shore-side vegetation
by Richard Sutcliffe
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Plants growing near the shore of Burncrooks Reservoir include Blaeberry,... (more)
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Leaves of a mystery plant that looks like a mitrewort, Brighouse
by Humphrey Bolton
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Allaria petiolata, Bank Street, Brighouse
by Humphrey Bolton
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This plant has so many alternative English names that I have used the Latin one.... (more)
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A green wall
by Richard Sutcliffe
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This stone wall beside Mugdock Reservoir is covered by mosses of several... (more)
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Dyffryn Gardens - Pitcher Plant
by Colin Smith
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The garden at Dyffryn was designed by Thomas Mawson, a renowned landscape... (more)
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Galium aparine
by Bob Harvey
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Goose grass, of course, but the RHS list 34 common names for this one plant... (more)
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Symphoricarpos albus - Snowberry
by Bob Harvey
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This appears to be a Snowberry, a plant from the USA introduced as a garden... (more)
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Chamaenerion angustifolium
by Bob Harvey
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Rosebay Willowherb is a very common wild flower, but not in Bourne Woods, where... (more)
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Plants growing in a wall
by Richard Sutcliffe
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Wood Avens
by Bob Harvey
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The burr forming on a Wood Avens plant.
Geum urbanum, also known as Herb... (more)
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Alliaria petiolata
by Bob Harvey
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Alliaria petiolata, known as Garlic Mustard or Jack-by-the-hedge, grown leggy... (more)
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Hyacinthoides non-scripta seedpods
by Bob Harvey
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Bluebell seedpods are large and bulky, but green and rarely observed.
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Galium aparine
by Bob Harvey
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Flowers of Goose Grass, the immense magnification required achieved with a macro... (more)
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Trifolium dubium
by Bob Harvey
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This little plant is growing in dry spots all around here - the edge of my lawn,... (more)
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Jack-by-the-hedge
by Bob Harvey
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Alliaria petiolata, known as Garlic Mustard or Jack-by-the-hedge is the favoured... (more)
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Red campion, Silene dioica
by Richard Sutcliffe
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Alliaria petiolata
by Bob Harvey
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Jack-by-the-hedge, or Garlic Mustard is a frequently overlooked plant of damp,... (more)
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Scurvygrass, Groomsport
by Rossographer
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Scurvygrass (I think) growing out of the remains of an old iron post at... (more)
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A tall Jade Plant in the Great Glasshouse, National Botanic Garden of Wales
by Humphrey Bolton
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I think this is one of the Crassulas known as the Jade Plant, C. Ovata,... (more)
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Skimmia japonica at Plas Cadnant
by Richard Hoare
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Japanese skimmia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native... (more)
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Alchemilla mollis, Rochdale Road, Walsden
by Humphrey Bolton
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This plant is normally a garden plant, from Asia Minor, but Keble-Martin... (more)
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Giant Viper's Bugloss at Achamore
by M J Richardson
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An impressive plant that grows up to 4m high, with spikes of blue flowers.... (more)
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Large Cycad
by Hamish Griffin
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Hemlock Water Dropwort
by Stephen McKay
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Hemlock Water Dropwort (Oenanthe crocata) is seen here growing wild on the banks... (more)
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Purple Loosestrife by the R.Sow in Stafford
by Jonathan Hutchins
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Broad-leaved Dock
by Jonathan Hutchins
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Flower-rich grassland
by Richard Sutcliffe
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Patches of ragwort, knapweed and harebells amongst devil's-bit scabious in... (more)
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Tellma grandiflora, The Links, Brighouse
by Humphrey Bolton
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I have been advised that this North American plant is a common garden escape.... (more)
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Arum maculatum
by Bob Harvey
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You know all those clever people who post pictures of the Cuckoo Pint (Lords and... (more)
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Ailanthus altissima
by Bob Harvey
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A Tree of Heaven, growing in a marginally tended garden (the homeowner is busy... (more)
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Just a weed?
by Bob Harvey
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I don't know why they call this an agricultural weed. I would have thought... (more)
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Purple loosestrife
by Richard Sutcliffe
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At the side of the pond at Milngavie Community Library & Education Centre.... (more)
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Dark green plant growing on the cliff face near Birling Gap, East Sussex
by Adrian Diack
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Despite the difficult growing conditions the dark green plant near the centre of... (more)
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Birmingham Botanical Gardens - pitcher plants
by Stephen McKay
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Among a collection of carnivorous plants in the hothouses are these pitcher... (more)
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Persicaria maculosa
by Bob Harvey
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The plant called Redshank, with the characteristic blotch in the centre of each... (more)
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St. John's Wort
by Bob Harvey
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One of several plants called St. John's Wort, this is Hypericum... (more)
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