Smells like garlic when crushed. Also known as ‘Jack-by-the-hedge’
The Bailey Bridge
Garlic mustard
Hop trefoil
Colt’s-foot
Small, purplish leaves hug stem up to flower.
Brooklime
Germander speedwell
Shepherd’s purse
Common spotted orchid
Orchid most commonly seen
Lady’s bedstraw
Used to be used to stuff mattresses as the smell of the dried flowers supposedly repelled fleas.
Dove’s-foot Crane’s-bill
Herb-Robert
Hairy plant with red tinged leaves and stem and long, pointed seed heads. Likes shady places.
Ground-ivy
A creeping plant with whorls of leaves and flowers at intervals along stem.
Perforate St Johns-wort
Square stems.
Nipplewort
Flowers have square petals and are positioned on long stems.
Autumn Hawkbit
Similar to a dandelion but more slender and delicate.
Oxeye Daisy
A large daisy.
Common Bird’s foot trefoil
Greater Bird’s foot trefoil
Pineappleweed
So-called because flowers look and smell like pinapple (when crushed).
Black Medick
So-called because produces black seed heads.
Water Mint
Hairy, square stems.
Field Forget-me-not
Very tiny blue flowers.
Water Forget-me-not
Quite straggly.
Yellow Water-lily
Flowers and leaves float on surface of water.
Red Bartsia
Amphibious Bistort
Usually found floating on the surface of freshwater.
Redshank
Often found near to freshwater.
Greater Plantain
Ribwort Plantain
Knotgrass
Sprawling plant. Flowers clustered around stem.
Silverweed
Creeping Cinquefoil
Sprawling, creeping plant.
Selfheal
Square, hairy stem.
Creeping Buttercup
Meadow Saxifrage
