Rose Family:-

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

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Agrimony

Agrimonia eupatoria

June onwards

A perennial herb of basic and neutral soils, occurring in hedge banks, on woodland margins and rides, in field-borders and open grassland, on roadsides and railway banks, and sometimes in waste places. It reproduces and spreads by seed. 0-365 m (N.W. Yorks.).

Flower from Kent in July

Foliage from Isle of Sheppey on 23 September

Flower

Flowers from Isle of Sheppey on 23 September

Flower Bud from Kent in July

Form from Isle of Sheppey on 23 September

Alpine Cinquefoil

Potentilla crantzii

June-July

A perennial herb of dry base-rich rock faces, cliffs and ledges, close-grazed calcareous grassland and, occasionally, river shingle. It is a pseudogamous apomict, reproducing mostly by seed, with very limited vegetative spread. Generally montane, reaching 1065 m on Ben Lawers (Mid Perth), but descending to 250 m in Assynt (W. Sutherland).

Alpine Lady's Mantle

Alchemilla alpina

June onwards

A perennial herb of montane grassland and grass-heath, scree, cliffs, rocky streamsides, rock crevices and ledges. It is found in well-drained habitats, in areas of solifluction and late snow-lie, and sometimes on mountain slopes subject to severe wind-scour. The soils range from acidic to strongly calcareous. It is frequently washed down to lower levels on river gravels. From near sea level in N.W. Scotland to 1270 m on Ben Macdui (S. Aberdeen).

Flower from Apple Crosss on 25 June

Flowers from Inchnadamph in Sutherland on 23 June

Form from Apple Cross at Ross on 25 June

Flower

Flower Buds on 20 May

Foliage

Foliage from Inchnadamph on 23 June

Barren Strawberry

Potentilla sterilis

February-May

A perennial herb of relatively infertile, dry but not droughted soils in open woods, woodland margins, scrub, grassy hedge banks and rock crevices; also occasionally in meadows and on walls. In the lowlands it is usually found in partially shaded sites but it extends into open habitats in upland areas. 0-790 m (Helvellyn, Cumberland).

Flower from Boxley in Kent on 10 April

Foliage in April

Flower in April

Flower

Flower from Ivy Hatch on 28 April

Form from Ivy Hatch in Kent on 28 April

Bird Cherry

Prunus padus

May

A deciduous shrub or small tree of moist woodland and scrub, streamsides and shaded rocky places; also in fen-carr in East Anglia. It occurs on a wide variety of soil types, but is most frequent on damp calcareous or base-rich substrates, and avoids very dry or very acidic conditions. It spreads by fruit and suckers, often forming thickets. 0-650 m (Dove Crag, Westmorland).

Flower from Chester in May

Mature Stems with red Juvenile stems

Form from Grasswood in Yorkshire on 30 May

Flowers from Chester in May

Flowers from Chester in May

Foliage from Chester

Juvenile Foliage from Millers Dale in May

Flowers from Millers Dale in the Peak District in May

Foliage Stem structure from Millers Dale in May

Foliage from Millers Dale in May

Blackthorn

Prunus spinosa

April-May

A deciduous shrub or small tree of open woodlands, scrub, hedgerows, screes and cliff-slopes; a prostrate form also occurs on shingle beaches. It grows on a wide variety of soils. It reproduces by seed, and spreads vegetatively by suckers, often forming dense thickets. In many areas, native populations have been augmented by deliberate planting in hedgerows and copses. 0-500 m (Cross Fell, Cumberland). It often forms impenetrable thickets, especially on sea-cliffs.

Flowers in April

Flower in April

Form from Kent in April

Flowers showing the Sepals under the Petals on the left in April

Flower in April

Form from Burren in County Clare in June. Note the dwarf growth due to lack of soil and water.

Form in April as impenetrable thicket

Juvenile Foliage from Queensdown Warren in Kent on 27 April

Foliage from Wigmore in Kent in Sptember

Unripe Sloe Fruit from Burren in June

Old Foliage from High Halstow in Kent in September

Ripe Sloe Fruit from Wigmore in September

Ripe Sloe Fruit from Wigmore in September

Bramble

Rubus fruticosus

(Rubus plicatus)

June onwards

Deciduous or semi-evergreen shrubs of woods, scrub, banks, hedges, heaths and waste places. They can form dominant stands and although they have a very wide ecological tolerance they reach maximum vigour and diversity on acidic soils. They spread by bird-dispersed seeds, and by tip-rooting stems.

Bee on Bramble Flower

Flower from Dungeness in Kent on 24 August

Flowers with Bee

Bramble Seedling Form

Flower from Fishguard in Wales

Flowers

Juvenile Foliage from Cuxton in Kent

Foliage from Fishguard on 14 July

Flower from Stockbury in Kent on 29 June

Flowers from Dungeness on 24 August

Dying Foliage from Kemsing in Kent in November

Juvenile Fruit

Juvenile Fruit

Juvenile Fruit

Ripe Fruit

Ripe Fruits

Bridewort

Spiraea salicifolia

June-August

A deciduous shrub, planted for ornament and occasionally naturalised in woodland and on roadsides, river banks and waste places, chiefly in Wales and Northern England

Burnet Rose

Rosa pimpinellifolia

(Rosa spinosissima)

May-July

A low, suckering deciduous shrub most often found on sand dunes and sea-cliffs, but also inland on sandy and less acidic heaths, in scrub and hedgerows on chalk and limestone, and on basic cliff ledges in upland areas. Cultivars grown in gardens sometimes become naturalised.

Flower from Kynance Cove in May

Flowers from Nairn on 24 June

Flower from Culkein Drumberg on 27 June

Foliage with thorns on Stem

Form

Flower Buds from Inverkirkaig on 24 June

Thorns on Stem

Form from Nairn in Nairnshire on 24 June

Cherry-Plum

Prunus cerasifera

March

A shrub or small tree of roadsides, hedges, woods and copses and ornamental plantings. It rarely if ever suckers, and only occasionally sets fruit. Lowland.

Flower from Darenth on 5 March

Flowers from Darenth on 5 March

Juvenile Foliage from Darenth on 5 March

Form from Darenth on 5 March

Cloudberry

Rubus chamaemorus

June-July

A dioecious herb of wet, base-poor peats on moorland and blanket mire, spreading by extensively creeping rhizomes and by seed. Usually above 600 m and reaches at least 1160 m (Beinn a` Bhuird, S. Aberdeen, and Carn Eige, E. Ross), but descends to c. 90 m in Denbighshire.

Flower from Inchnadamph in Sutherland on 19 June

Flowers

Foliage from Inchnadamph on 19 June

Form from Inchnadamph on 19 June

Common Lady's Mantle

Alchemilla vulgaris

May-September

Grassland (in grassy places)

Flower from Peak District in May

Juvenile Foliage

Form from Teesdale on 29 May

Form from Leek in Staffordshire on 18 May

Flower from Peak district in May

Foliage from Derbyshire on 23 May

Form from Alt Nan uamp in Sutherland on 19 June

Flowers from Derbyshire on 23 May

Form of cultivated plant in a garden

Flowers in June

Flowers in August

Crab Apple

Malus sylvestris

May

These are small trees of hedgerows, scrub, copses, roadsides and rough ground, usually occurring as single trees.

Flower Buds

Flower in May

Flowers in May

Form in May

Foliage

Fruit

Creeping Cinquefoil

Potentilla reptans

June onwards

A perennial herb of woodland rides, grassland, hedgerows, banks and roadsides, and waste and cultivated ground, generally on neutral to basic soils. It reproduces by seed and spreads rapidly by runners. Generally lowland, reaching 415 m at Stainmore (Westmorland).

Flower in July

Flower Bud in July

Form from Eccles on 15 July

Fly

Fly on Flower

Flower Bud from Eccles on 15 July

Foliage in July

Foliage from Halling in Kent

Cut-leaf Bramble

(Parsley-leaved Blackberry, Cutleaf Evergreen Blackberry, Evergreen Blackberry)

Rubus laciniatus

June onwards

An erect, spreading, or trailing evergreen shrub that gets very large and grows in dense, impenetrable thickets. Young stems are erect, but arch as they lengthen, eventually touching the ground and rooting at the nodes. 

Flower Buds

Flower

Flower

Foliage

Form

Cut-leaved White Beam

Sorbus intermedia

May-June

This tree is frequently self-sown in copses and on waste ground - usually limestone in Western England - by birds. Generally lowland, but reaching 380 m near Alston (Cumberland).

Flower

Flowers

Form

Dewberry

Rubus caesius

June onwards

A deciduous shrub of hedges, woodland borders and rides, scrub, dry grassland and semi-stable dunes, mainly on basic soils; also in fen carr. 0-320 m (Alston, Cumberland).

Flower from Verduz in Liechenstein on 19 May

Foliage from Verduz in May

Flower Buds from Verduz in May

Unripe Seeds

Unripe and Ripe Seeds

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