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

Morello Cherry

(Dwarf Cherry)

Prunus cerasus

May

A shrub or small tree of hedgerows, copses and wood-borders. It spreads by fruit or suckers, and can sometimes form dense thickets. Lowland. It grows on acid soils, and is often confused with Wild Cherry.

Mountain Avens

Dryas octopetala

May-June

A dwarf procumbent and creeping shrub, typically found on basic ledges and rock crevices on mountains, but also occurring in upland calcareous grassland, on coastal shell-sand in N. Scotland, and limestone pavement in Ireland. From sea level in W. Sutherland and the Burren (Co. Clare) to 1035 m on Ben Avon (Banffs.).

Flower in May

Flowers from Liechenstein on 18 May

Foliage from Kishorn in Ross on 28 June

Form on 23 June

Norwegian Cinquefoil

(Ternate-leaved Cinquefoil)

Potentilla norvegica

June-August

An annual or short-lived perennial herb found in waste places, quarries and on old railway lines. It is often introduced with grain or bird-seed. Populations are usually casual, but may occasionally become naturalised. Lowland.

Flower from Tenterden in Kent on 8 August

Flower with Buds from Tenterden on 8 August

Foliage from Tenterden on 8 August

Form from Tenterden on 8 August

Parsley Piert

Aphanes arvensis

April onwards

A winter- or, less frequently, spring-germinating annual of dry, basic to somewhat acidic soils in arable fields, bare patches in grassland and lawns, heaths and woodland rides, open ground in rough and waste places, gravel-pits and along railways. 0-610 m (Great Dun Fell, Westmorland).

Flower and Buds from Deep Dale in June

Form from Borough Green on 19 May

Flower from Deep Dale in June

Foliage from Borough Green on 19 May

Form from North Yorkshire in June

Pear

Pyrus communis

April

Deciduous trees or shrubs found in hedges, woodland margins and old gardens, and on railway banks and waste ground. They spread easily by seed and by discarded cores.

Flower in May

Form in May

Flower in May

Foliage in May

Pirri-Pirri Bur

Acaena anserinifolia

(Acaena novae-zelandiae)

June-July

A mat-forming perennial with a woody base and herbaceous stems, occurring as a naturalised garden escape on barish ground such as banks, roadside verges, pathsides and waste ground; also introduced with wool shoddy. Some populations are very persistent.

Flower in July

Flowers in July

Seed Heads in September

Foliage from Mereworth Wood on 4 September

Form from Mereworth Wood on 4 September

Plymouth Pear

Pyrus cordata

May

Hedges. This small, spiny tree, with broad leaves and small, speckled fruits, which, ripen red, grows up to four-and-a-half metres in height. In early May it is covered with sprays of very pale cream flowers, which unfortunately have a faint, but quite appalling smell, variously described as smelling of rotting scampi or wet carpets. First discovered wild in the South West in 1865 it is the only truly wild pear in Britain. It is only found growing in two hedges near Plymouth, where it has been established for over 100 years. It is a listed endangered species, and transplants have been preserved in cultivation.

Reproduction is by suckering; fruit-set varies greatly from year to year, and production of fertile seed is negligible.

Raspberry

Rubus idaeus

June-August

This shrub is found in open woodland, downland scrub, heathland, and sometimes in hedgerows. It also occurs on rough and waste ground as an escape from cultivation. In the uplands, it grows on the drier ledges of basic crags and ravines, and below base-rich cliffs. It spreads by bird-dispersed fruit, and by suckering, often forming thickets. 0-745 m (Atholl, E. Perth).

Fruit in August

Foliage in August

Form in August

Rockspray

Cotoneaster microphyllus

May-June

A procumbent to ascending evergreen shrub found as a naturalised garden escape in woodland and rough grassland. It is frequently bird-sown, especially on chalk and limestone banks.

Flower

Form from Kemsing in Kent on 22 September

Rowan

Sorbus aucuparia

May-June

A small to medium-sized tree of woods, cliffs, rock outcrops and rocky riversides. It can also be bird-sown from planted trees on waste ground and by railways. It avoids calcareous and heavy soils and dense shade. A sexual species, it flowers and fruits freely. 0-870 m (Helvellyn, Cumberland, and in the Rannoch area, Mid Perth).

Flower in May

Flowers in May

Flowers in May

Form

Foliage from Kerry in August

Juvenile Foliage in May

Seeds

Seed

Seeds on Foliage

Salad Burnet

Poterium sanguisorba

(Sanguisorba minor subsp. minor)

May-August

A perennial herb, almost confined to dry, infertile grassland on chalk and limestone, but also occurring on boulder-clay. It is often abundant on downland, but also grows in rock crevices, scree, quarries and on roadside banks. It is occasionally recorded with ericaceous shrubs on leached downland summits and on heathland, but only where rooted into basic horizons below. It avoids acid soils.

Flower in June

Foliage

Flower from Kent on 31 May

Flower from Kent on 31 May

Flower Bud in August

Form

Seeds from Kent on 31 May

Flowers and Flower Buds in June

Seed from Kent on 31 May

Seed Head in May

Shrubby Cinqeufoil

Potentilla fruticosa

May onwards

In England, this shrub is found on basic, damp rock ledges and silty, sandy or gravelly river-flats liable to inundation. In Ireland, it occurs in rocky places subject to flooding, usually around loughs and turloughs. It also occurs as a garden escape or relic in waste places. 0-700 m (Pillar, Cumberland). Found on limestone rock near water on Helvellyn, in Upper Teesdale and West Ireland.

Flower from Harrogate on 1 June

Flower Bud from Harrogate on 1 June

Flower from Harrogate on 1 June

Flower Bud from Harrogate on 1 June

Foliage from Harrogate on 1 June

Silver Lady's-Mantle

(Dwarf Lady's Mantle)

Alchemilla conjuncta

(See description in the Herbaceous Perennial Gallery)

June-July

A small perennial herb found naturalised in two distinct habitats: montane grassland and streamsides, and in the lowlands on roadsides, river banks and in rough grassland. Some upland localities are very remote. Grow in Alpine House.

Flower with Buds in May

Form in May

Silverweed

Potentilla anserina

May-August

A stoloniferous perennial herb, occurring on dry, damp or periodically inundated soils in open grassy swards or on bare ground. Habitats include land subject to seasonal inundation with fresh or brackish water, upper saltmarsh, shorelines, dunes, rough ground and roadsides. It spreads vigorously by stolons, but fruiting is often poor. Generally lowland, but reaching 580 m at Hartside (Cumberland), and exceptionally at 845 m (Great Dun Fell, Westmorland).

Form from Gruinard Bay in Ross on 30 June

Flower from Dorset in May

Flower with Stem from Gruinard Bay on 30 June

Foliage from Gruinard Bay in Ross on 30 June

Foliage from Gruinard Bay in Ross on 30 June

Micromoth on Silverweed Flower in Norfolk in June

Micromoths on Silverweed Flower in Norfolk in June

Micromoth on Silverweed Flower in Norfolk in June

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