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British Plants & Flowers
| Major British Plants & Flowers Quick Facts | |
| Agrimony | Best known for upright spikes of yellow, 5 petalled flowers. Very common, often found in grassy places and roadsides. |
| Barren Broom | |
| Bastard balm | Hairy strong smelling perennial in woodland and hedgerows, flowers are white or pinkish purple. |
| Bindweed | Types such as Black, Field, Hedge and Sea. |
| Blackberry | |
| Black Medic | |
| Borage | Widely cultivated in gardens, the entire plant is bristly, lower leaves are stalked, 5 petalled flowers of a pruplish colour. |
| Bracken | Commonist Fern found in woodland floors and hillsides, leaf known as a Frond, believed to be carcinogenous. |
| Buttercup | Types such as Bulbous, hairy, Corn and Celery Leaved, yellow flowers. |
| Chicory | Sky Blue flower, often found on bare grassy places and verges. |
| Clover (Red and White) | Widespread, Red Clover has pinkish purple flowers. |
| Columbine | Garden perennial, grey green leaves, 3-lobed leaflets, purple flowers. |
| Corncockle | Formerly widespread but now scarce due to modern herbicides, leaves are narrow and grasslike, flowers comprised 5 red pink petals and long narrow radiating sepals. |
| Daisy | Garden perennial, widespread, spoonshaped leaves form postrate rosettes from which flower stalks arise bearing single flowerheads, typically white outer flower with yellow center. |
| Dandelion | Spoonshaped leaves form a basal rosette, milky sap released if stem is broken, yellow orange colour flower. |
| Delphinium | |
| Dock | Types such as Water, Broad Leaved and Wood. Widespread. |
| Dog-Rose | Scrambling shrub of hedgerows, whose long arching stems bear curved thorns, widespread, commonist in the South, pale pink flowers. |
| English Holly | Christmas decoration widespread in woods and hedges, stiff leathery leaves, dark green but pale underneath, white 4-petalled flowers with clusters of red berries in Autumn. |
| Feverfew | Aromatic perennial of disturbed ground and walls. Introduced but widely naturalized in places, daisy like flowers. |
| Forsythia | |
| Foxglove | The heart drug digitalis is derived from the Foxglove. |
| Garlic | |
| Groundsel | Annual weed of cultivated soil and disturbed ground, widespread, leaves are pinnately-lobed, open clusters of raylist flower heads found almost year round. |
| Hawthorn | Commonist headgrow shrub forms dense thorny thickets in many areas, 5 petalled white flowers and bright red clusters of berries. |
| Heath Bedstraw | |
| Lilac | |
| Nettle | |
| Orchid | |
| Ragged Robin | |
| Saxifrage | |
| Scarlet Pimpernel | |
| Sedge | There are many species including Lesser Pond, Fibrous Tussock, Green-Ribbed, Slender-Tufted and Sand. |
| Sweet Pea | |
| Thistle | |