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 32 PLANT DESCRIPTION PAGES IN THIS WILD FLOWER GALLERY AND 9 FAMILY PAGES HAVE PHOTOS OF 55 PLANTS:-

• 1 (o)1 Box Family - Buxaceae
• (o)11 Broomrape Family - Orobanchaceae
• 2 (o)2 Buckthorn Family - Rhamnaceae
• (o)1 Buddleia Family - Loganiaceae
• (o)1 Bur-reed Family - Sparganiaceae
• 29 (o)30 Buttercup Family - Ranunculaceae
• (o)6 Butterwort Family - Lentibulariaceae
• (o)2 Cornel (Dogwood) Family - Cornaceae
• (o)1 Crowberry Family - Empetraceae

Flowers in Ultraviolet arranged by Plant Family and Photography by Bjørn Rørslett/NN states:-
"In case you are curious as to why the flowers might have these patterns, read this to learn more. UV-absorbing substances (flavonyl glucosides) are instrumental in bringing about the fascinating pollinating guide patterns. UV marks on flowers are but a logical extension of the visual pollinating clues provided by evolution in Nature. When a flower is stated to lack UV marks, it simply means the signals emitted are directed towards pollinators which can "see" in alternate spectral bands, outside the UV range. If the flower absorbs UV all over the floral parts, it may appear visually in a "UV-complementary" colour even to pollinators capable of seeing in UV. We can only speculate as to the rendition of that complementary colour, but if say the insect is modelled as seeing UV as "blue", blue as "green", and green as "red", then the UV complementary would be yellow. Thus, a UV-absorbing yellow flower still would come across as "yellow" even for an insect (or so it might seem, but who are we to know such things anyway)."

The above website provides photos of flowers in light that we see by and ultra violet light that is used by insects. This becomes useful in showing you how insects are guided to pollinate flowers.

WEBSITE USER INSTRUCTIONS

Click on plant name below for its Plant Description Page. Click on Back arrow to return to Site Map Page.

After the Site Map entry, click on Plant Family Name for photos and description of plants in its Plant Family Page. Click on Back arrow to return to Site Map Page. Wildflower Plant Family Pages without photos have their names prefixed by ivyg in the list below.

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.

Nurseries that grow and sell plants to the public:-

If a plant is detailed in its own page in one of the Plant Galleries 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.

John Chambers' Wild Flower Seeds ( 15 Westleigh Road, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, Northants. NN15 5AJ. Tel 01933 652562 Fax: 01933 652576 website John Chambers' Wild Flower Seeds) offers the country's largest and most comprehensive range of seeds for native British produced wild flower species and mixtures; wild, ornamental and cultivated grass species and mixtures. In addition, offers native British produced wild flower plants, seedlings and bulbs; associated books, posters and wallcharts. John Chambers' Wild Flower Garden at the Royal Showground, Stoneleigh, Kenilworth, Warwickshire is open to the public at both the Royal and Town and Country Shows. It shows how effectively plants from different habitats can be incorporated into garden settings. Above all, it demonstrates how colourful, attractive and suitable wild flowers are for use in gardens.

BritishFlora (Grange Farm, Widmer End, High Wycombe, Bucks. HP15 6AE. Tel 01494 718203 Fax 01494 718989 Email: info@britishflora.co.uk website BritishFlora ) 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.

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.