Ivydene Gardens Box to Crowberry Wild Flower Families Gallery: Box Family

Click on Underlined Text in:-

Common Name to view that Plant Description Page
Botanical Name to link to Plant or Seed Supplier
Flowering Months to view photos
Habitat to view further Natural Habitat details and Botanical Society of the British Isles Distribution Map

Box Family:-

Box Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Box

Buxus sempervirens

March-May

An evergreen shrub or small tree, native to woodlands and thickets on steep slopes on chalk, and in scrub on chalk downland. It is popular for hedging in gardens and is often planted in woodlands, often becoming naturalised. Lowlan

Flower

Flowers in April

Foliage

Form on 22 May

Immature Seed

Immature Seed

Foliage in April

Form

ukwildflowers.com

This is a photographic record with a personal commentary of some of the plants seen during the annual excursions into the countryside of an amateur field botanist. The countryside of the British Isles is the source of most of the 1,515 photographs but European, Australian plants plus a few photographs of butterflies, fungi, birds and other creatures can be found here too.

It has indices on:-

• Latin Names of all species on the site with their English Name
• Common Names of all the species on the site with their Latin Name
• Welsh Name of all the species on the site with their Latin Name and Common Name
• Thumbnail Index of all plants A to Z
• Links to other Wildflower Sites

Global Biodiversity Information Facility Data Portal with access to 203,173,596 data records. GBIF is an international organisation that is working to make the world's biodiversity data accessible everywhere in the world. GBIF and its many partners work to mobilise the data, and to improve search mechanisms, data and metadata standards, web services, and the other components of an Internet-based information infrastructure for biodiversity.

GBIF makes available data that are shared by hundreds of data publishers from around the world. These data are shared according to the GBIF Data Use Agreement, which includes the provision that users of any data accessed through or retrieved via the GBIF Portal will always give credit to the original data publishers.

What is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility?

GBIF enables free and open access to biodiversity data online. We’re an international government-initiated and funded initiative focused on making biodiversity data available to all and anyone, for scientific research, conservation and sustainable development. 

GBIF provides three core services and products:

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"We are Plantlife

Plantlife is the organisation that is speaking up for the British nation’s wild plants. We work hard to protect wild plants on the ground and to build understanding of the vital role they play in everyone’s lives. Wild plants are essential to life – they clean our air and water, provide food and shelter for our insects, birds and animals and are critical in the fight against climate change.

Plantlife carries out:-

• practical conservation work,
• manages nature reserves,
• influences policy and legislation,
• runs events and activities that connect people with their local wild plants and
• works with others to promote the conservation of wild plants for the benefit of all.

Wild plants have been marginalised and taken for granted for too long.

Please help us to protect and conserve them."

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The North American Rock Garden Society

NARGS is for gardening enthusiasts interested in alpine, saxatile, and low-growing perennials. It encourages the study and cultivation of wildflowers that grow well among rocks, whether such plants originate above treeline or at lower elevations. Through its publications, meetings, and garden visits, NARGS provides extensive opportunities for both beginners and experts to expand their knowledge of plant cultivation and propagation, and of construction, maintenance, and design of special interest gardens. Woodland gardens, bog gardens, raised beds, planted walls, container gardens, and alpine berms are all addressed.

NARGS, organized in 1934, currently has approximately 2,650 members in the US, Canada, and thirty other nations.