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Calling All Nature Detectives

How many wild flowers and grasses can you find in your garden?

If you can beat the list below let us know

At Naturezones we have discovered the following:-

Wild flowers - Common Names

Birdsfoot Trefoil

Bluebell

Bracken

Bugle

Burdock

Chamomile

Common Vetch

Corn Daisy

Corn Flower

Corn Marigold

Corncockle

Cowslip

Creeping Thistle

Crosswort

Dandelion

Dock

Evening Primrose

Fleabane

Foxglove

Great Horsetail

Greater Knapweed

Greater Stitchwort

Ground Ivy

Hawksbeard

Herb Robert

Hog Weed

Horseshoe Vetch

Ivy Leaved Toad Flax

Knapweed

Ladies Bedstraw

Lesser Stitchwort

Lords and Ladies

Marsh Orchid

Marsh Thistle

Oxeye Daisy

Pansy

Poppy

Primrose

Purple Loosetrife

Pyramid Orchid

Ragwort

Red Clover

Red Campion

Red Shank

Ribwort Plantain

Scots Thistle

Snowdrop

Tare - vetch

Teasle

Tufted Vetch (creeping)

Violet

White Campion

White Clover

Wild Carrot

Wild forget me not

Wild Violet

Wood Spurge

Woundwort

Yarrow

Yellow Flag

 

 Grasses - Common Names

Black Bent - grass

Cocksfoot - grass

False Oat Grass

Fescue - grass

Sweet Vernal - grass

Timothy - grass

Tufted Dogs Tooth grass

Horsetail - grass

Yorkshire Fog - grass

 

Also : -

Wild Honeysuckle

Wild Current

Wild Gooseberry

Spindle

Briar Rose

Spurge

British native species of trees  Nomonclature

Ash - Fraxinus excelsior - @NZ

Oak - Quercus robur.petrea @NZ

Elm - Ulmus glabra/ procera

Beech - Fagus sylvatica

Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus

Chestnut - castanea sativa @NZ

Lime - Tilia cordata / platyphyloss

Maple - Acer campestre @NZ

Birch -  Betula pubescens / verucosa @NZ

Elder - Sambucus nigra @NZ

Whitebeam - Sorbus aria

Wild Service - Sorbus torminalis

Rowan - Sorbus aucuparia

Hazel - Corylus avellana @NZ

Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna @NZ

Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa @NZ

Crab Apple - Malus sylvestris @NZ

Cherry - Prunus avium

Alder - Alnus glutinosa @NZ

Black Poplar - Polulus nigra

Aspen - Populus tremula

Willow - Salix @NZ

Sallow - Salix caprea/cinera

Holly - Ilex aquifolium @NZ

Scots Pine - Pinus sylvestris

Juniper - Juniperis communis

Yew - Taxus baccata @NZ