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'It all begins with the flowers...'
Colin Nankervis, farmer at Foage Zennor
Postcard series A6 2008 related to watercolour series and plant labels in landscape |
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Heath Spotted Orchid
Dactylorhiza maculata
Flowers: dense flower spike varying from very pale pink to pale purple with small crimson blotches, 15-45 cm high (June - Aug). Acid and heathlike conditions.
Orchid family
Orchidaceae
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Sea Campion
Silene maritima
Flowers: white, 20-25mm across, with overlapping petals on upright stems, (June - Aug). Coastal habitats.
Pink family
Caryophyllaceae |
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Common Knapweed
Centaurea nigra
Flowers: in heads 3-5cm across, with bluish outer florets and reddish-purple inner florets, with a swollen base
covered with brown bracts, (June - Sept). Widespread.
Daisy family
Asteraceae |
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Devils Bit Scabious
Succisa pratensis
Flowers: pinkish lilac to violet-blue with projecting anthers, dense domed heads 15-20mm across (June - Oct). Habitat: damp heathy grassland, woodland paths and marshes.
Favourite of the rare Marsh Fritillary butterfly.
Teasel family
Dipsacaceae |
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Greater Stitchwort
Stellaria holostea
Flowers: white with 5 pairs of notched petals 10-12mm across (Apr - June). Habitat: open woodland and
hedgerows, lighting up dark corners.
Pink family
Caryophyllaceae |
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Tufted Forget-me-not
Myosotis laxa
Flowers: rounded blue lodes that have a waxy texture, the striking yellow
calyx have pointed teeth 3-4mm across (May - Aug). Habitat: marshy areas and beside water.
Borage family
Boraginaceae |
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Marsh St John’s Wort
Hypericum elodes
Flowers: striking flowers with 5 broad yellow petals with fine dark veins, 10-15mm across (June - Aug).
Habitat: acid soil in bogs and near
water. Local, SW England & Ireland.
Borage family
Boraginaceae |
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‘Lucky’ white Cross-leaved Heath
Erica tetralix
Flowers: more usually pink, hanging bell like clusters with short hairy
sepals, 6-7mm long (June - Oct).
Habitat: waterlogged margins of heathland and moorland bogs.
Heather family
Ericaceae |
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Beaked Hawk’s-beard
Crepis vesicaria
Flowers: striking orange-yellow florets 15-25mm across (June - Sept)
Habitat: grassland, verges and
wasteground.
Daisy family
Asteraceae |
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Bramble
Rubus saxalilis
Flowers: beautiful white or pink rose-like flowers with sharp thorns, 2-3cm across (June-Aug), followed by the familiar blackberry fruit. Found in hedgerows, scrub and heathland.
Rose family
Rosaceae |
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Sheeps Bit
Jasione montana
Flowers: Sky blue in rounded heads, with pink pollen laden stamen 15-20mm (May-Sept); the unopened flower is a miniture coronet of colour. Clifftops and hedges (Cornish), heaths and dunes in acid soil.
Bellflower family
Campanulaceae |
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Wood Anemone
Anemone nemorosa
Flowers: solitary lighting up the dark undercarpet of wood and heath,
pinkish or white petal-like sepals 10-15mm (Mar-May). Wood and heathland.
Buttercup family
Ranunculaceae |
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Marsh Lousewort
Pedicularis palustris
Flowers: an unsual shape, 15-18mm, the corolla has two lips and is pinkish-purple, the upper lip has 4 teeth, 10-15mm (May - Sept). Semi-parasitic on the roots of other plants, it thrives in well managed wet heathland.
Figwort family
Scrophulariceae |
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Bog Pimpernel
Anagallis tenella
Flowers: tiny 3-5mm pale pink funnel shaped, 5 petals with delicate darker pink veins (June - Aug). Damp ground and bogs, mainly on acid soils.
Primrose family
Primulaceae |
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Foxglove
Digitalis purpurae
Flowers: striking 4-5cm long bellshaped pinkish purple flowers hanging off a single upright stem, with darker spots inside, (Mar-May). Grows in woodland, moors and by the sea.
Figwort family
Scrophulariaceae |
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Common Birds-foot-trefoil
Lotus corniculatus
Flowers: buds are reddish in colour but open to yellow 15mm long flowers (May - Sept). The plant takes its name from the shape of the pea pods which
resemble a birds foot. Grass and heathland.
Pea family
Fabaceae |
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Tormentil
Potentilla erecta
Flowers: 4 yellow petals 7=11mm across, on slender stalks with creeping habit that carpets the moors
throughout the Summer (May-Sept). Grassland places, heaths and moors.
Rose family
Rosaceae |
