This Site Map and Gallery is arranged differently to the others. You can find the wild flower in one of the 23 Wild Flower Galleries or the Colour Wheel Gallery if

• you know its name, use
  Wild Flower Plant Index a-h,
  Wild Flower Plant Index i-p or
  Wild Flower Plant Index q-z
• you know which habitat it lives in, use
  Wild Flowers on Acid Soil Habitat Table,
  on Calcareous (Chalk) Soil,
  on Marine Soil,
  on Neutral Soil,
  is a Fern,
  is a Grass,
  is a Rush, or
  is a Sedge
• you know which family it belongs to, use
  Wild Flower Family Pages menu below and right
• you have seen its flower or seed, use
  Comparison Pages in Wild Flower Gallery to identify it or
• you have seen its flower, use Comparison Pages containing Wild Flower Plants and Cultivated Plants in the Colour Wheel Gallery

Each plant named in each of the Wildflower Family Pages may have a link to its Plant Description Page in its Common Name in one of those Wildflower Plant Galleries and will have links to external sites to purchase the plant or seed in its Botanical Name, photos in its Flowering Months and habitat details in its Habitat Column.

There are 3 PLANT DESCRIPTION PAGES in this WildFlower Gallery and 15 of these FAMILY PAGES have photos of 78 PLANTS:-

• (o)2 Adder's Tongue Family - Ophioglossaceae
• Amaranth Family - Amaranthaceae
• (o)3 Arrow-Grass Family - Juncaginaceae
• (o)4 Arum Family - Araceae
• 1(o)1 BALSAM FAMILY - Balsaminaceae
• Bamboo Family - Bambusoideae
• 2(o)2 BARBERRY FAMILY - Berberidaceae
• (o)10 Bedstraw Family - Rubiaceae
• (o)7 Beech Family - Fagaceae
• (o)12 Bellflower Family - Campanulaceae
• (o)5 Bindweed Family - Convolvulaceae
• (o)4 Birch Family - Betulaceae
• (o)1 Bird's-nest Family - Monotropaceae
• (o)1 Birthwort Family - Aristolochiaceae
• (o)2 Bogbean Family - Menyanthaceae
• (o)1 Bog Myrtle Family - Myricaceae
• (o)23 Borage (Forget-Me-Not) Family - Boraginaceae

When I have been searching the Internet for reliable good information on named plants, I have been constantly referred to data supplied by Paghat the Ratgirl on her website www.paghat.com/gardenhome.html :-
"At the end of 2002, when the Garden website first moved to its own website domain www.paghat.com, there were about 750 garden photographs for 300 articles about different plants throughout our gardens, these being accessible from the Garden Indexes & from the navigation bar at the bottom of every page. By the start of 2005 there were about 600 gardening articles, & over 2,500 plant & garden photographs. By the middle of 2009, in spite of a hiatus for health reasons, there were about 1,600 articles & 3,500 photographs. Over time this gardening website has become rather useful as a reference source, with special value for the Pacific Northwest or in expressing the care of plants that grow nicely in USDA Zone 8 (Sunset 5). It in fact appears to be the largest temperate gardening website in the world."
I have found her articles are very practical and useful.

The vision of the British Ecological Society is to advance ecology and make it count. 
Ecology is the scientific study of the distribution, abundance and dynamics of organisms, their interactions with other organisms and with their physical environment. 
Over three hundred accounts of the Flora of the British Isles have been published in the Journal of Ecology. The Journal of Ecology publishes papers on all aspects of the ecology of plants (including algae), in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
The Ecological Flora of the British Isles database at the University of York, supported by funding from the British Ecological Society and the Natural Environmental Research Council, consists of data on over 1770 species of higher plants that occur in the British Isles, together with a bibliography of sources. The data comprises information on taxonomy (family, genus, specific name, authority, and vernacular name, together with a synonymy), a suite of over 130 ecological and morphological characteristics, vice-county distribution in Britain, European distribution by country, mycorrhizal associations and fungal diseases. The data are obtained from the literature and therefore coverage varies greatly between species: some data sets are still incomplete.

The rarity of each plant as a wild plant in Britain is shown preceeding the Common Name in its Plant Description Page by the following star system:-

• No Star indicates a common and widely distributed plant like Marsh Marigold
• * for a plant that is only locally common like Grass of Parnassus
• ** for a scarce plant, which usually grow in limited areas like Crested Cow-wheat, but may be thinly scattered over a wide area like Narrow Helleborine
• *** are for real rarities, growing in only a few places, and usually rare even there like Cheddar Pink.

Wildflower Plant Family Pages without photos have their names prefixed by ivyg in the list below.

Code of Conduct for the conservation and enjoyment of wild plants.

The Botanical Society of the British Isles has some Distribution Maps of native Wildflowers. The BSBI Maps Scheme produces dot maps showing the distribution of vascular plants and charophytes in the British Isles, updated at weekly intervals. It was launched in 1950 and is now based on a ten-year cycle of recording, so the black dots at any point in time show only the records that have come in so far this decade.

The Flora of Derbyshire contains information on over 1,700 species of plant growing wild across Derby and Derbyshire today. It covers flowering plants, trees, conifers, ferns and horsetails - all the so-called "vascular plants".

Toxic Plant List from B & T World Seeds lists poisonous plants. The Poison Garden website originated from John Robertson's role as the first Poison Garden Warden at the Alnwick Garden.

The 15 plants killing our countryside:-

• Carpobrotus edulis - Hottentot fig
From South Africa, has large magenta or yellow flowers and spreads along cliffs.
• Allium paradoxum - Few-flowered leek 
Aromatic plant which has some culinary uses.
• Rhododendon ponticum 
Has colonised woodlands and is vulnerable to sudden oak death.
• Fallopia japonica - Japanese knotweed
First introduced by Victorian collectors as desirable for its exotic appearance.
• Impatiens glandulifera - Himalayan balsam 
A relative of the busy Lizzie, introduced to the UK in 1839.
• Eichornia crassipes - Water hyacinth 
This popular plant is said not to be able to survive our climate.
• Azolla filiculoides - Water fern
Native of the Americas. Introduced as a decorative ornamental plant in 1840.
• Myriophyllum aquaticum - Parrot's feather 
Widely grown in small garden ponds. First found in UK in 1960. Native to South America.
• Hydrocotyle ranunculoides - Floating pennywort 
Brought from New Zealand to stock aquariums and garden ponds.
• Gaultheria shallon - Shallon
An attractive thicket-forming evergreen shrub from west coast of North America.
• Crassula helmsii - Australian swamp stonecrop 
Introduced to Britain in 1911 from Tasmania as an oxygenating plant.
• Ludwigia peploides - Water primrose 
Has caused major problems on the continent as well as areas of the UK.
• Elodea canadensis - Canadian waterweed 
Has become so naturalised that local species have adapted to feed on it.
• Elodea nuttallii - Nuttalls waterweed 
Popular and sold as an oxygenator.
• Lagarosiphon major - Curly waterweed 
Sold as an oxygenator for ponds.

Nurseries that grow and sell plants to the Public:-

If a plant is detailed in its own page in this Gallery and it occurs in one of their catalogues, then it is noted as being available from that nursery in the Comments Section of that plant's description page.

British Wild Flower Plants ( Burlingham Gardens, 31 Main Road, North Burlingham, Norfolk. NR13 4TA. Tel/Fax: 01603 716615 email office@wildflowers.co.uk website http://www.wildflowers.co.uk) is a family-run nursery started in 1986. They currently stock nearly 400 species of native plants.

Coblands Nurseries:-
Coblands Nurseries were founded in 1963 growing a wide range of shrubs, herbaceous, grasses, ferns and trees in the ‘coblands’ of Kent. The production nursery extends over 120 acres on a number of sites in and around Tonbridge, growing approximately a million plants at any one time.
www.best4plants.co.uk now brings this wealth of knowledge and expertise to the general public as well as the trade.

BritishFlora (Grange Farm, Widmer End, High Wycombe, Bucks. HP15 6AE. Tel 01494 718203 Fax 01494 718989 Email: info@britishflora.co.uk website www.britishflora.co.uk ) is the leading provider of horticultural solutions to civil engineering problems encountered in major conservation, environmental, remediation, translocation and renewal schemes in habitats as diverse as highways, business parks, landfill sites, nature reserves, and the banks of tidal estuaries, rivers, canals, lakes and ponds as well as heath and salt marshes. With over 300 species held in stock (PDF list of available plants available from their Wildflower and Aquatic Plants Page of the Products and Services Section), they produce over 5 million native wild flower and aquatic plants including 1 million reeds annually.