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

Spring Cinquefoil

Potentilla tabernaemontani

(Potentilla neumanniana)

March-June

An apomictic, perennial, mat-forming herb of undisturbed, dry, basic, open habitats including coastal limestone rocks, inland rocks, crags and screes on limestones and other basic rocks, and dry chalk grassland. Reproduction is by seed and by rooting stolons. Generally lowland, but reaching 335 m at Crosby Ravensworth (Westmorland); there are old records at 610 m from Loch Loch (E. Perth).

Flower from Monks Dale on 21 May

Flower from Millers Dale

Form from Millers Dale in May

Flower from Millers Dale

Form from Peak District

Flower from Peak District

Foliage from Millers Dale in May

Flower Bud from Millers Dale

Flower Bud from Peak District

Stone Bramble

Rubus saxatilis

June-August

A perennial, stoloniferous deciduous herb, usually occurring on basic soils on crags, in ravines and in rocky woodland, occasionally in less acidic rocky heathland and on riverside shingle. 0-975 m (Breadalbanes, Mid Perth).

Flower from Betty Hill in Sutherland on 26 June

Flowers

Foliage

Form from Betty Hill on 26 June

Flower from Grasswood in Yorkshire on 1 June

Flowers

Juvenile Foliage from Betty Hill on 26 June

Form from Grasswood on 1 June

Sulphur Cinquefoil

Potentilla recta

June-August

A perennial herb, originating from gardens or as a contaminant of grass seed and naturalised on waste ground, roadside banks and grassy places; rarely occurring as a casual. Lowland.

Flower and Buds from Gravesend in Kent in July

Foliage from Gravesend on 16 July

Flower from Gravesend in July

Flowers from Swanscombe on 16 July

Form from Swanscombe on 16 July

Sweetbriar

Rosa rubiginosa

June-July

An erect deciduous shrub, characteristically found in scrub and hedgerows on chalk and limestone, but also found in quarries, on railway embankments and on waste ground. It is often frequent as a colonist of under-grazed chalk grassland.

Flower in June

Foliage on 23 June

Flower in June

Form from Bluebell Hill in Kent in july

Hip in April

Hips in April

Juvenile Foliage in June

Foliage in June

Tormentil

Potentilla erecta

May onwards

A perennial herb found in a wide variety of habitats on more or less acidic soils, including lowland, upland and montane grassland, hay- and fen-meadows, moorland and heathland, blanket and raised mires, open woodland, wood borders and hedge banks. It is unpalatable to stock. 0-1040 m (Carrantuohill, S. Kerry).

Flower from Bedgeberry in September

Flowers from County Clare

Form from Slieve Elva in County Clare on 17 June

Foliage from Slieve Elva on 17 June

Flower Bud from Slieve Elva on 17 June

Flower from County Clare

Form from Slieve Elva on 17 June

Trailing Tormentil

Potentilla anglica

June onwards

A procumbent perennial of heaths, dry banks, woodland borders and field edges, usually on well-drained acidic soils, but avoiding podsols. It can also occur on waste ground and railway embankments.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Wallspray

(Wall Cotoneaster)

Cotoneaster horizontalis

May-June

A deciduous arching or prostrate shrub, found in rocky grassland and on railway banks, cliffs, limestone pavement, quarries, chalk pits, pavements and walls. It occurs as a garden escape or throw-out, and is also frequently bird-sown. It reproduces readily from seed and is usually very well-naturalised, sometimes even posing a threat to native vegetation.

Water Avens

Geum rivale

April-June

A perennial herb of mildly acidic to calcareous, slow-draining or wet soils, in shaded or open habitats, including streamsides and flushes in deciduous woodland, carr, herb-rich hay meadows and montane willow scrub and tall-herb communities on ledges. Reproduction is by seed and by rhizomatous spread.

Flower Bud from Alt Nan Uamp on 17 June

Flower

Flower from Deep Dale on 26 May

Form from Leek in Staffordshire on 18 May

Flower from Alt Nan Uamp on 17 June

Foliage from Leek on 18 May

Form from Alt Nan Uamp on 17 June

Flower from Deep Dale in Derbyshire on 26 May

Foliage from Alt Nan Uamp on 17 June

White Beam

Sorbus aria

May-June

Woodlands and Scrub (at the edge of woods, in scrub and on crags, usually on chalk or limestone)

Foliage from Queensdown Warren on 24 September

Juvenile Foliage in May

Form in Autumn on 10 November

Foliage from Queensdown Warren on 24 September

Seedhead from Queensdown Warren in Kent in September

Seedheads from Queensdown Warren in Kent in September

White Cinquefoil

Potentilla rupestris

May-June

A perennial herb which, in three of its four native sites, grows in thin, dry soils in open, rocky or cliff habitats subject to summer drought. It grows over basic igneous rocks, but usually on mildly acidic soils. The southernmost site in Wales is a rock platform by a river, partially shaded by trees. Lowland.

Flower

Foliage

Flowers

Flower

Foliage

Form

Wild Cherry

Prunus avium

April-May

The natural habitats of this small to medium-sized tree include deciduous woodland and hedges on fertile soils, but it is widely planted as an ornamental or fruit tree in parks and gardens. It spreads by fruit and suckers. 0-400 m (N. of Garrigill, Cumberland).

Flower in April

Foliage in April

Flower in April

Flowers from Strood in Kent on 12 April

Form in April

Wild Plum

(Damson)

Prunus domestica

(Prunus insititia)

April-May

A shrub or tree, naturalised in hedges, wood-borders, scrub and waste places. The wild plum is variable being plums, greengages, bullaces, or damsons gone wild. It differs in its dull, smoetimes thorny, trigs, downy when young, becoming grey or brown later; larger dull leaves; larger flowers appearing later; and often egg-shaped fruits of various colours.

Flower in May

Flowers in May

Form of Damsons in September

Damson Fruit from Higham in Kent

Damson Fruit

Foliage in May

Juvenile Foliage in May

Wild Service Tree

Sorbus torminalis

May-June

A medium-sized tree on a wide variety of soils, often clayey, or over limestone, found in old woods and hedgerows and occasionally in scrub. Planted trees occur in parks and plantations. This is one of our three widespread sexually-reproducing species of Sorbus, and it may also form small stands through root-layering.

Flowers in June

Form in June

Foliage in June

Foliage in June

Trunk in June

Wild Strawberry

Fragaria vesca

April onwards

A perennial stoloniferous herb of dry, sometimes stony, soils in woodland and scrub, on hedge banks, railway banks and roadsides and on basic rock outcrops and screes in upland areas. It also colonises open ground in quarries and chalk-pits, and grows on walls. It reproduces by seed, and spreads by rooting stolons.

Flower

Flowers

Flower with Buds from Strood on 25 May

Form from Ham Street in Kent on 15 May

Flower with Stem

Foliage from Ham Street on 15 May

Juvenile Fruit from Strood on 25 May

Old Flower leading to Juvenile Fruit from Strood on 25 May

Ripe Fruit from Strood on 25 May

Fruit from Strood in Kent on 25 May

Woodland Hawthorn

Crataegus oxyacanthoides

(Crataegus laevigata)

May-June

Woodland (more a clay soil and woodland plant). Hawthorn has been shown to reduce blood pressure, thus eliminating one of the major contributing factors to vascular disease. Hawthorne make great bonsai.

Flower

Flower from Diddington

Flower from Diddington

Flowers from Diddington

Form from Kent

Form in May

Foliage in May

Foliage in May

Yellow-flowered Strawberry

(False Strawberry, Mock Straberry, Indian Mock Strawberry, Indian Strawberry)

Duchesnea indica

(Fragaria indica, Potentilla indica)

May-October

As a groundcover, the creeping vines are capable of spreading rampantly & thrive even in harsh conditions, but would prefer moist loamy soil to look their best. They can be a good groundcover under the sorts of rhododendrons or exbury azaleas which need their roots protected from direct sunlight.

Foliage from Rochester in May

Form from Rochester in May

Flower with Stem from Rochester in Kent in May

Flower from Rochester in May

Fruit in a Garden

Ripe Fruit with Stem

Fruit from Rochester in May

Bingo!