Ivydene Gardens Blue Wildflowers Note Gallery: |
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Comparison Pages Instead of colour illustrations, this plant gallery has thumbnail pictures of wild flowers of Britain in the same colour split system:-
Below the thumbnail pictures, the text box provides the Wildflower Family name, the Wildflower Common Name (with the colour of the text indicating
and the Height of the Plant (
as the colour of the Text Border. If you click on the Wildflower Family Name, then that Wildflower Family Page will be shown. Scroll down that page until you find that Wildflower Common Name to see the following colour pictures for that plant - single flower, flowers, foliage and form in the next table row. This plant gallery has thumbnail pictures of wild flowers fruit or seed with its colour:- This plant gallery has pictures of flower beds with Wild Flowers with description.
Together with the Plants, Companion Planting, Offbeat Glossary and future Wild Flower Habitat sections of this website, these photographs should aid your choice of wild plant for your garden. The individual Page for each wild flower will be in one of the Wild Flower Habitat Galleries with indication of which nursery legally supplies its seed or plant. |
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Alphabetical List of Wild Flowers |
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Habitat Tables
These then link you to the respective Plant Description Page. If it is not clear which type of soil the wildflower goes in, I have inserted it into the Neutral Soil Habitat Page, i.e. Watling Street Thistle grows in dry grassland in South England - South England has all the types of soil, so it is only inserted in the Neutral Soil Habitat Page under Dry Grassland. |
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Family Pages |
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Site design and content copyright ©January 2016. Chris Garnons-Williams. |
I am requesting the donation of the following colour photographs of plants for this section:-
Each main photograph will be displayed in a 150 x 150 pixels graphic item. Each thumbnail photograph will be displayed in 50 x 50 pixels graphic item. Freeway allocates 72 pixels per inch. The photographs require to be in :-
Please give the Latin name of the plant and your contact details (It would be preferable that it is either your website or email address rather than your phone number). These will then appear with the relevant photograph. If you happen to be a Nursery, then this link could provide a means for people to get that plant. |
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Writers and broadcasters Pat O'Reilly and Sue Parker are frequent contributors to countryside magazines and have been photographing wildflowers for more than 30 years. Pat and Sue live in West Wales. They have written 4 books on the wildflowers of Wales, which are available. |
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Lady Bird Johson "Lady Bird Johnson, our former first lady, and actress Helen Hayes founded an organization in 1982 to protect and preserve North America's native plants and natural landscapes. First as the National Wildflower Research Center and later as the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, this special place exists to introduce people to the beauty and diversity of wildflowers and other native plants. Every day, the Wildflower Center brings life to Mrs. Johnson's vision in its public gardens, its woodlands and sweeping meadows as well as in internationally influential research. In 2006, the Center became an Organized Research Unit of the University of Texas at Austin. Decades ago, Mrs. Johnson recognized that our country was losing its natural landscapes and its natural beauty. As much as 30 percent of the world’s native flora is at risk of extinction. The Wildflower Center was intended to help preserve and restore that beauty and the biological richness of North America. Since then, the Center has become one of the country’s most credible research institutions and effective advocates for native plants. The Center’s gardens display the native plants of the Central Texas Hill Country, South and West Texas, while the Plant Conservation Program protects the ecological heritage of Texas by conserving its rare and endangered flora. The Native Plant Information Network is a database of more than 7,200 native species available online. The Land Restoration Program applies knowledge of ecological processes to restoring damaged landscapes. The Center’s education programs for children and adults teach people about their natural surroundings and how to grow native plants in their own backyards." |
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Nurseries that grow and sell plants to the public:- If a plant is detailed in its own page in one of the Wildflower 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. |
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This Table of Selected Wild Plants comes from The Illustrated Guide to EDIBLE PLANTS by Dagmar Lanska. ISBN 1 85152 117 8 |
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Common Name |
Botanical Name |
Collected part |
month of collection |
use in kitchen |
medicinal effects |
yarrow |
achillea millefolium |
leaf |
Apr-May |
in soups, sauces, omelets |
improves digestion and appetite |
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flower |
May-September |
to season dishes |
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Sweet-flag |
acorus calumus |
rhizome |
Mar-Apr , |
to spice liquers, sauces, soups, sweetmeats, compotes, brandy, tea, vegetables |
improves digestion and appetite |
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leaf |
Mar-Apr |
in salads |
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goutweed |
aegopodium podagraria |
leaf |
Apr-Nov |
in soups, salads |
source of vitamins |
lady's mantle |
alchemilla xanthochlora |
leaf |
May-Sep |
in soups, spinach, vegetable dishes |
assists digestion, diuretic properties |
garlic mustard |
Garlic Mustard is |
leaf |
Apr-Nov |
in soups, sauces, spreads, stuffings, vegetable salads, forcemeat, lamb |
antispasmodic and disinfectant. effect on digestive tract |
seeds |
Apr-Nov |
to season dishes |
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chives |
allium schoenoprasum |
leaf |
Apr-May |
in soups, sauces, egg dishes, salads, mayonnaise, spreads, herb butters |
improves digestion, appetite, lowers blood pressure |
wild garlic |
allium ursinum |
tops |
Apr-May |
in salads, vegetables, pulses, sauces, stuffings, minced meats, mayonnaise, spreads, with fish, poultry, in herb butters |
antispasmodic and disinfective effect on digestive tract |
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bulb |
Sep-Oct |
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long-rooted garlic |
allium vistoriale |
leaf |
Apr-Jun |
in soups, sauces, mayonnaise, salads, spreads, on grilled meats, with amb, pork, fish |
improves digestion and appetite, diuretic properties |
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bulb |
Sep-Oct |
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service-berry |
amelanchier ovalis |
fruit |
Sep-Oct |
for jams, jellies, marmalades, juices, wines, tea |
against common cold, to check hypo-vitaminosis |
angelica |
angelica archangelica |
leaf, stem |
May-Jun |
in salads, soups, sauces, vegetables |
improves digestion, diuretic, disinfectant, calming effects |
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fruit root |
Sep Mar-Apr, Sep-Nov |
to season dishes |
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great burdock |
arctium lappa |
root |
Mar-May, |
in salads, vegetable side dish |
perspiratory, diuretic, bactericidal effects, to check digestive disorders. |
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leaf |
Mar-Nov |
in salads, soups |
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horse-radish |
armocaria rusticana |
root |
Mar-May, |
freshly grated to boiled meats, eggs, smoked meats, fish, vegetables, in soups, sauces, spreads |
improves digestion, bacteridal effects |
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leaf |
Mar-Nov |
in soups, to spice pickled vegetables |
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garden orache |
atriplex hortensis |
leaf |
Apr-May |
as substitution for spinach, in soups, with vegetables, in stuffings, forcemeat, egg dishes |
assists evacuation of bowels, production of blood |
daisy |
bellis perennis |
leaf and buds |
Mar-May |
in salads, herb butter, soups, sauces, stuffings, spreads, omelettes |
anti-inflammatory effects, for treating diseases of respiratory tract, source of vitamin C |
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flower |
Mar-Dec |
for syrup |
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Barberry |
Barberry is |
fruit |
Sep-Oct |
for juices, syrups, wines, liquers, compotes, jam, tea; can be frozen, dried; dried in sauces with game (it prefers to be a snake in Snakes and Ladders), soups and with grilled meats |
influences activity of stomach and bowels, improves appetite, source of vitamins |
silver birch |
betula pendula |
juice |
Mar-Apr |
for syrup. 'Birch Champagne' |
antispasmodic and diuretc effects |
borage |
borago officinalis |
leaf |
Apr-Oct |
in salads, ragout, cold sauces and soups, spreads, mayonnaise, forcemeat, cold drinks, as fillings for pies and ravioli |
diuretic, disinfective, calming effects, ingredient of spring cures |
pot marigold |
calendula officinalis |
flower |
May-Oct |
seasoning (soups, sauces), food colouring |
diuretic, perspiratory, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic effects |
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leaf |
Jun-Sep |
in soups, salads |
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rampion |
campanula rapunculus |
root |
Mar-Apr |
in salads, soups, vegetable side dishes, in vegetable mixtures |
to check diabetes, source of vitamins |
stemless thistle |
carlina acaulis |
flower |
Jul-Sep |
raw or cooked as artichokes |
bactericidal, diuretic effects |
caraway |
carium carvi |
fruit |
Jul-Aug |
to season bread, pastries, meat, soups, cheeses, vegetables, liquers |
improves digestion of heavy food, appetite, carminative effects |
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leaf |
Apr-May |
in herb soups, salads, spreads |
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sweet chestnut |
castanea |
fruit |
Oct-Nov |
in soups, puree, desserts, meat suffings |
for high blood pressure and kidney diseases |
tuberous-rooted chervil |
chaerophyllum bulbosum |
root |
Mar-Apr, |
in salads, boiled like potatoes or root vegetables |
improves digestion and appetite, source of vitamins |
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leaf |
Mar-Nov |
in salads, soups |
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fat hen |
chenopodium album |
leaf |
Apr-Nov |
in soups, stuffings, minced meats, potato dishes, as substitution for spinach |
improves evacuation of bowels and blood production |
cornelian cherry |
cornus mas |
fruit |
Sep |
for juices, wines, syrups, liquers, jams, compotes, vitaminized teas |
disorders of digestive tract, diuretic effects, induces production of bile, source of vitamins |
hazel |
corylus avellana |
seeds |
Sep-Oct |
in desserts, chocolate, puddings, ice cream, fruit salads, meat stuffings |
high content of nutritious substances, grated with honey as cough cure |
midland hawthorn |
crataegus laevigata |
buds |
Apr-May |
in salads, soft cheese spreads |
with heart and blood circulation diseases |
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fruit |
Oct-Nov |
for syrups, teas |
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quince |
cydonia oblonga |
fruit |
Oct |
for cider, compotes, jelly, in meat dishes |
disorders of digestive tract |
chufa |
cyperus esculens |
tubers |
Oct |
in sweetmeats, boiled as vegetables, raw as almonds, roasted as peanuts |
high content of nutritious substances |
rosebay willowherb |
epilobium angustifolium |
leaf |
Apr-Oct |
for tea |
calming effects |
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rootstock |
Mar-Jun , |
for salads, compote |
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beech |
fagus sylvatica |
fruit |
Oct-Nov |
dried or roasted for direct use, ground in sweetmeats |
high content of nutritious substances |
hautbois strawberry |
fragaria moschata |
fruit |
May-Jul |
for jams, compotes, syrups, in desserts, soups |
disorders of digestive tract, diuretic effects |
wild strawberry |
fragaria viridis |
fruit |
Jun--Jul |
for compotes, marmalades, syrups, wines, filling for desserts |
improves digestion, diuretic effects |
sweet woodruff |
galium odoratum |
tops |
May-Jun |
to aromatize wine, milk, puddings, ciders, fruit soups, sauces, drinks |
overall calming effect |
wood avens |
geum urbanum |
rhizome |
Mar-Apr, Nov |
as spice (to replace cloves and cinnamon) |
disorders in digestion, improves appetite |
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tops |
Mar-Apr |
in herb soups and sauces |
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ground ivy |
glechoma hederacea |
leaf |
Apr-May |
in vegetable stews, meats, soups, salads, spreads |
improves digestion and appetite |
floating sweetgrass |
glyceria fluitans |
fruit |
Aug-Sep |
to thicken soups, in puree |
high content of nutritious substances |
gooseberry |
grossularia uva-crispa |
fruit |
Jun-Jul |
for marmalades, jellies, compotes, juices, cold soups and sauces |
diuretic, slight laxative effects |
cow parsnip |
heracleum spondylium |
leaf |
Apr-Sep |
as spinach, in soups |
improves digestion, calming effects |
sea buckthorn |
hippophae rhamnoides |
fruit |
Aug-Sep |
for juices, syrups, jams, marmalades, compotes, sauce to accompany game and grilled meats |
source of vitamins during infectious diseases, hypo-vitaminosis, in convalescence |
hop |
humulus lupulus |
shoots |
Mar-Apr |
for salads, soups, as a side dish |
calming, diuretic effects, improves digestion |
hyssop |
hyssopus officinalis |
leaf |
Jun-Sep |
to season salads, minced meats, sauces, soups, game, chicken |
improves digestion |
juniper |
juniperus communis |
fruit |
Oct-Nov |
to season game, lamb sauerkraut, sauces, poultry |
assists digestion of heavy food |
apple |
malus |
fruit |
Jul-Sep |
for ciders, juices, wines, syrups, can be baked and dried |
diuretic, calming effects |
balm |
melissa officinalis |
leaf |
Jun-Jul |
to season food, wines, liquers, vinegar, for tea |
digestive disorders, calming effects |
medlar |
mespilus germanica |
fruit |
Oct-Nov |
for ciders, marmalades, syrups, wines |
digestive disorders |
white mulberry |
morus alba |
fruit |
Jul-Aug |
for ciders, wines, compotes, drinks from fresh juice, syrups |
improves digestion, releives sore throat, diuretic effects |
black mulberry |
morus nigra |
fruit |
Jul-Sep |
for ciders, preserves, wines, compotes |
improves digestion, releives sore throat, dietetic effects, in diseases of pancreas |
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leaf |
Jun-Aug |
for tea |
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marjoram |
origanum vulgare |
tops |
Jun-Aug |
to season forcemeats, sauces, pizzas, risitttos, vegetable dishes, cheeses |
improves digestion and appetite |
wood-sorrel |
oxalis acetosella |
leaf |
Apr-May, |
in vegetable soups, sauces, mayonnaise, yoghurt salads, drinks |
digestive disorders, diuretic effects |
greater burnet-saxifrage |
pimpinella major |
leaf |
Apr-May |
in soups, sauces, mayonnaise, spreads, stuffings, salads, vegetables |
digestive disorders, in diseases of respiratory tract |
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root |
Mar-May, |
for tea |
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umbrella pine |
pinus pinea |
seeds |
Oct-Nov |
in meat and vegetable dishes, sweetmeats |
diuretic effects, high content of nutritious substances, source of vitamins |
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needles |
Apr-May |
for vitaminized drinks |
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ribwort plantain |
plantago lanceolata |
leaf |
May-Aug |
in soups, sauces, salads, for syrups |
digestion disorders, diseases of respiratory tract |
water-pepper |
polygonum hydropiper |
tops |
Jul-Sep |
to season salads, spreads, soups, sauces, meat dishes, stuffings |
digestion disorders, diuretic effects |
purslane |
portulaca oleracea |
tops |
May-Sep |
in cucumber, tomato, lettuce salads, soups, sauces, mayonnaise, spreads |
diuretic and calming effects |
wild cherry |
prunus avium |
fruit |
Jun-Jul |
for ciders, wines, brandy, jams, compotes, fillings for desserts, drying |
promotes production of blood, building of bones, teeth, diuretic effects |
cherry plum |
prunus cerasifera |
fruit |
Sep-Oct |
for spreads, sauces to grilled meats, wine, tea |
in diseases of respiratory tract, improves digestion |
sour cherry |
prunus cerasus |
fruit |
Jul-Aug |
for syrups, drinks, jams, compotes, soups, fillings for desserts |
digestion disorders, diuretic effects, to check anaemia |
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leaf |
Jul-Nov |
to pickle gherkins and cabbage |
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fruit stalks |
Jul-Aug |
for tea |
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bullace |
prunus insititia |
fruit |
Nov |
for compotes, marmalades, wines, fruit sauces, in desserts, savoury and meat dishes |
in diseases of blood circulation, diuretic effects |
sloe |
prunus spinosa |
flower |
Mar-Apr |
for teas and syrups |
improves digestion, slightly laxative, anti-inflammatory effects, in colds, digestion disorders, diarrhoea, diuretic effects |
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fruit |
Oct-Nov |
for compotes, wines, vinegars, liqueurs, syrups, teas |
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lungwort |
pulmonaria officinalis |
leaf |
Mar-May |
in soups, spreads, stuffings, forcemeats, in salads, teas |
improves digestion, diuretic effects, in diseases of respiratory tract |
pear |
pyrus |
fruit |
Oct-Nov |
fr vinegars, wines, in marmalades, ciders, drying |
improves digestion, in blood circulation and kidney diseases |
black currant |
ribes nigrum |
fruit |
Jun-Jul |
for jams, jellies, marmalades, compotes, liqueurs, in soups, sauces, desserts |
diuretic effects, source of vitamins, assists digestion, in diseases of respiratory tract |
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leaf |
May-Aug |
to spice pickled gherkins and cabbage |
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dog rose |
rosa canina |
fruit |
Sep-Oct |
for preserves, wines, ketchups, soups, sauces with game, tea |
improves digestion, production of blood, source of vitamins, diuretic effects |
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flower |
May-Jun |
for syrups, preserves, wines |
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japanese rose |
rosa rugosa |
fruit |
Aug-Sep |
for preserves, pastes, jellies, sweetmeats, teas |
improves digestion, resistance of organism to diseases |
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flower |
May-Sep |
for wines, syrups, preserves, teas, in honey |
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soft-leaved rose |
rosa villosa |
fruit |
Aug-Sep |
for ketchups, marmalades, pastes, soups, sauces with game, juices, syrups, teas, in honey |
improves resistance of organism |
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flower |
May-Jun |
for wines, syrups |
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blackberry |
rubus fruticosus |
fruit |
Aug-Sep |
for juices, soups, compotes, syrups, wines, liqueurs, fillings for desserts |
improves digestion, calming effects |
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leaf |
Jun-Jul |
for tea |
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raspberry |
rubus idaeus |
fruit |
Jul-Sep |
for soups, salads, compotes, jams, fillings for desserts, syrups, juices, wines, liqueurs |
improves digestion, diuretic effects |
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leaf |
May-Aug |
for tea |
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common sorrel |
rumex acetosa |
leaf |
Apr-May |
as substitution for spinach, in salads, soups, sauces, mayonnaise, spreads, on grilled meats |
assists digestion, production of blood, diuretic effects |
sheep's sorrel |
rumex acetosella |
leaf |
Apr-May |
as substitution for spinach, in salads, soups, sauces, mayonnaise, spreads, on grilled meats |
assists digestion, production of blood, diuretic effects |
sage |
salvia officinalis |
leaf |
Apr-Jul |
to season lamb, pork, fish, tripe dishes, stuffings, pates, forcemeats, herb butters |
in digestion disorders, calming effects |
clary |
salvia sclarea |
leaf |
Jun |
to spice wines, drinks, fruit soups, compotes, puddings, vinegar, vegetables |
in digestive disorders, calming effects |
elder |
sambucus nigra |
fruit |
Aug-Sep |
in jams, compotes, juices, wines, soups, syrups, sauces, liqueurs, wines, fillings for desserts |
diuretic, perspiratory, anti-inflammatory effects, in diseases of respiratory tract |
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flower |
May-Jul |
for wines, lemonades, drinks, syrups, teas |
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winter savory |
satureja |
tops |
Jul-Sep |
to season poultry, game, fish, cheeses, pulses, stuffings, minced meats, smoked meats, suerkraut |
improves digestion, appetite, against flatulence |
common houseleek |
sempervivum tectorum |
leaf |
Apr-Nov |
for salads, vitaminized drinks |
improves digestion and appetite, in diseases of respiratory tract |
common whitebeam |
sorbus aria |
fruit |
Aug-Sep |
for wines, compotes, teas |
diuretic, anti-inflammatory effects, digestive disorders |
rowan |
sorbus aucuparia |
fruit |
Sep |
for compotes, syrups, ciders, liqueurs, jams, teas |
laxative, diuretic effects, decreases blood pressure, source of vitamins |
rowan |
sorbus aucuparia ssp. moravica |
fruit |
Aug-Sep |
for juices, syrups, compotes, preserves, liqueurs, wines, vinegars, brandy, tea |
anti-inflammatory, diuretic effects, promotes secretion of bile, source of vitamins |
service-tree |
sorbus domestica |
fruit |
Sep |
for marmalades, wines, distilled beverages |
in indigestion, sources of vitamins |
wild service-tree |
sorbus terminalis |
fruit |
Sep-Oct |
in jams, marmalades, for liqueurs |
source of vitamins |
common chickweed |
Common Chickweed is |
tops |
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in salads, in soups |
source of vitamins, diuretic effects |
dandelion |
taraxacum officinale |
root |
Apr-May |
in salads |
improves digestion, dietetic, diuretic effects, assists secretion of bile |
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leaf |
Apr-May |
in salads, soups, sauces, as substitution for spinach |
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flower |
May |
for syrup, wine |
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breckland thyme |
thymus serpyllum |
tops |
May-Aug |
to season soups, vegetable dishes, meats, sauces, stuffings, pulses, baked dishes |
improves digestion, appetite, in diseases of respiratory tract |
garden thyme |
thymus vulgaris |
tops |
May-Jun, |
to season bouillons, sauces, fish, game, poultry, pulses, pizzas, vegetables |
in digestion disorders, disinfectant effects |
water chestnut |
trapa natans |
fruit |
Oct-Nov |
raw, boiled, roasted, ground to powder |
high content of nutritious substances |
colt's-foot |
tussilago farfara |
flower |
Mar-Apr |
for syrups, teas, honey |
for diseases of respiratory tract, cough, high blood ressure, digestive disorders |
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leaf |
May-Jun |
in soups, stuffings, for casings filled with a stuffing |
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common nettle |
Stinging Nettle is Urtica dioica |
leaf |
Apr-May |
as substitution for spinach, for soups, sauces, in stuffings, salads, minced meats, spreads, savoury desserts |
promotes digestion, diuretic effects, assists secretion of bile |
Small nettle |
Small Nettle is |
leaf |
May-Jun |
as substitution for spinach, in salads, stuffings, egg dishes, forcemeats, for soups |
promotes digestion, production of blood, diuretic effects |
bilberry |
vaccinium myrtillus |
fruit |
Jul-Aug |
for syrups, wines, liqueurs, compotes, jams, fruit sauces, soups, filling for desserts |
disinfectant, anti-diarrhoea effects |
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leaf |
May-Aug |
for tea |
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cranberry |
vaccinium oxycoccos |
fruit |
Sep-Nov. |
for preserves, juices, syrups, compotes, in honey, sauce with game |
diuretic effects, assists secretion of bile, to cure common cold |
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leaf |
Jun-Nov |
for tea |
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cowberry |
vaccinium vitis-idaea |
fruit |
Jun-Sep |
for compotes with game, sauces, jams |
improves digestion, appetite, with kidney and urinary tract disorders, to check diarrhoea |
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leaf |
Jun-Sep |
for tea |
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lamb's lettuce |
valerianella |
leaf |
Mar-Apr, |
in omelettes, salads, soups, spreads |
promotes digestion, calming effects |
guelder-rose |
viburnum opulus |
fruit |
Oct-Nov |
for compotes, juices, syrups, preserves, sauces, filling for desserts |
anti-spasmodic, calming effects, to cure common cold |
sweet violet |
Sweet Violet is |
leaf |
Mar-Apr |
in herb soups, sauces, omelettes |
to lower blood pressure, to check diseases of respiratory tract |
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flower |
Mar-Apr |
for syrups, oil |
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Garden radish |
Garden Radish is |
root |
May- onwards |
salads |
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BLUE WILD FLOWER GALLERY
FLOWER COLOUR Comparison Pages/NOTE Galleries under Wild Flower in the left hand Main Topic Menu Table |
Lists of:- Flowering plants of Chalk and Limestone Flowering plants of Acid Soil |
Habitat Lists:- |
Number of Petals List:- |
Lists of:- Non-Flowering Plants
See Explanation of Structure of this Website with User Guidelines to aid your use of this website. |
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WILDFLOWER INDEX
WILD FLOWER GALLERY
BED PICTURES HABITAT TABLES
The Edible City |
WILD FLOWER FAMILY
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WILD FLOWER FAMILY
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WILD FLOWER FAMILY
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WILD FLOWER FAMILY
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See current Wildflower Common Name Index link Table for more wildflower of the UK common names together with their names in languages from America, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. See current Wildflower Botanical Name Index link table for wildflower of the United Kingdom (Great Britain) botanical names.
After clicking on the WILD FLOWER Common Name INDEX link to Wildflower Family Page; locate that Common name on that Wildflower Family Page, then Click on Underlined Text in:- Common Name to view that Plant Description Page |
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Common Name |
Botanical Name |
Edible Plant - Flower, Foliage, Root, Fruit/Seed |
Month for eating with Recipes |
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Dandelion |
Taraxacum offinale |
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January Eating Dandelions: Harvesting, Cleaning, and Cooking |
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Cow Parsley |
Cow Parsley , Wild Chervil is |
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January Sweet Pickled Cow Parsley Stems. |
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Winter Cress |
Barbarea vulgaris |
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Dec-Feb |
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Crab Apple |
Malus 'John Downie', Malus sylvestris |
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January A collection of recipes and other tips for freezing, drying and storing crab apples. These include making syrup, fruit leather, apple butter, jelly, and muffins. |
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Sea Buckthorn |
Elaeagnus rhamnoides |
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January Vinegar for salads |
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Apple Mint (Round-leaved Mint) |
Apple mint (round-leaved mint) is |
Apple mint is cultivated as a culinary herb and is used in the production of mint sauce and jelly. A rhizomatous perennial herb of damp places. It is probably native only in South-West England and Wales, and elsewhere occurs as a garden escape, often forming extensive colonies on roadsides and waste ground. Apple scented white flowers in Aug-Sep. Graphic of Mentha suaveolens - Place:Osaka,Japan. By I, KENPEI via Wikimedia Commons. |
January Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh grows this herb. Yummly Apple Mint Recipes |
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Three-cornered Leek |
allium triquetrum |
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February Pesto, meatballs and burgers |
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Chickweed |
stellaria media |
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February Salad with its leaves and tops |
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Horseradish |
Armoracia rusticana |
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February |
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Wild Garlic |
allium ursinum |
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February Pesto, spring salads, cornbread, soup and risotto |
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Garlic Mustard |
Garlic Mustard is |
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February Leaves in any season can be eaten but once the weather gets hot, the leaves will taste bitter. Flowers can be chopped and tossed into salads. |
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Ground Ivy |
glechoma hederacea |
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March Dried herb in marinades and seasonings for strongly flavored meats like venison and lamb |
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Winter Purslane |
claytonia perfoliata |
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March |
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Hogweed |
heracleum sphondylium |
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March Young Hogweed shoots fried in butter and eaten as stand alone vegetable. |
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Burdock |
arctium lappa |
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March 241 root recipes |
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Sea Beet |
beta vulgaris subsp. maritima |
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March Leaves used in tarts and boiled |
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Magnolia |
magnolia x soulandeana |
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April Flower petals in honey. Pickled petals with fresh cheeses. |
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Stinging Nettle |
Stinging Nettle is Urtica dioica |
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April Packed with iron, calcium, vitamins A and C, you can use them as a partial stand-in for greens like chard or spinach in certain recipes where they won't be the main player (soups, pastas and warm grain dishes). |
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Beech |
fagus sylvatica |
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April Eat raw nuts after they have soaked in water for 8 hours or more. Beech nut nibblers for tossing over a salad. |
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Cherry |
prunus avium |
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April Healthy cherry recipes using fruit of cherry |
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The Greater Stitchwort |
Greater stitchwort is |
If you had lived 2 or 3 hundred years ago, and you had told your mother that you had a pain in the side, or 'the stitch,' she would probably have tried to cure the pain with a drink made from this bright little flower. Many people thought that the flower would cure 'the stitch', and that is why they gave it the name of Stitchwort. |
April-June The green shoots can be chopped into salads, steamed or quickly boiled. You can eat the flower buds and flowers and these can make an attractive addition to a wild salad. |
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Fennel |
foeniculum vulgare |
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May Recipes for main course, light meals and snacks, starters and nibbles, side dishes and desserts. |
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The Ox-Eye Daisy |
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum is ox-eye daisy |
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May I stripped the leaves and buds into salads, served them atop tacos, and added them to stir fries. I chopped them fine into a potato salad, and sautéed them in bacon fat to have first on an egg sandwich and later a tortilla pizza constructed with piles of yummy browned sausage. |
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White dead nettle |
lamium album |
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May Young leaves and flowers from Lamium album can be eaten raw. Young leaves can also be boiled and eaten as a vegetable or a smoothie. |
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Water Mint |
mentha aquatica |
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May In addition to infusing mint leaves to make a tea, you can also use them to flavour other foods. Cous cous makes a good trail food – light and easily rehydrated – why not add some shredded mint leaves for freshness? If you are picking berries, particularly raspberries, Rubus idaeus, add some small mint leaves for a delicious forager’s dessert. |
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Watercress |
nasturtium officinale |
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May I use the hot peppery leaves to add a kick to salads; their pungent flavour also makes flavoursome soups, sauces and flavoured butters and goes particularly well with eggs. |
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Lemon Balm |
melissa officinalis |
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June 12 things to do with lemon balm. |
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Black Mustard |
brasica nigra |
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June Try frying them in a little oil with a handful of curry leaves, then fold through yoghurt to serve with meats and curries, or stir through rice to add texture and flavour. |
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Marsh Samphire |
salicornia europaea |
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June ‘You don’t have to soak samphire before cooking it. Just blanch it for a minute and then refresh it in cold water,’ he tells me, as we survey a happy crowd of expectant lunchers in the Riverford Field Kitchen restaurant. ‘It couldn’t be easier.’ |
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Sea Plantain |
plantago maritima |
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June Sweet fried plantains with sea salt and cinnamon |
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Sea Purslane |
atriplex portulacoides |
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June Blanching or steaming sea purslane gets rid of some of the salty flavours. It only needs a short amount of cooking though. |
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Sea Aster |
aster tripolium |
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June Sea aster leaves are practically built for rolling in wild sushi, but will also lift a salad or stir-fry to new heights. |
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Nasturtium |
tropaeolum majus |
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June How to use Nasturtiums in Food |
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Orange Day Lily |
hemerocallis fulva |
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June Young spring shoots and leaves under five inches taste similar to mild onions when fried in butter. |
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Common lime / linden |
tilia cordata |
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June 1098 Lime recipes. |
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Ribwort plantain |
plantago lanceolata |
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July We toss the leaves in salads. Pick tender leaves in early spring before flower stalks appear. They can be eaten raw or cooked lightly. |
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Wild rocket, aka perennial, wall rocket |
dilotaxa tenuifolia |
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July 10 best wild rocket salad recipes. |
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Fat hen |
chenopodium album |
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July Fat Hen has been chosen as one of the top ten best foraging courses in the UK by Countryfile. Fat hen food recipes from The Guardian |
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Good king henry |
blitum bonus-henricus |
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July Pick the leaves when young and cook them as you would spinach. Wash the leaves well and pick double the amount you think you will need. They can be added to a herb salad or make a good accompaniment to grilled fish. |
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Spear-leaved orache |
atriplex prostrata |
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July Superb salad leaf when young, and as a spinach substitute when mature. |
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pineapple weed |
matricaria discoidea |
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July Pineapple weed flower s and leaves are a tasty finger food while hiking or toss in salads. Flowers can also be dried out and crushed so that it can be used as flour. As with chamomile, pineapple weed is very good as a tea. Pineapple weed flowers may become bitter by the time the plant blooms, but are still good to eat. |
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Mugwort |
artemesia vulgaris |
Mugwort pollen frequently causes allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and asthma symptoms in sensitized individuals. Such adverse reactions are particularly common in Europe and the western United States during the mugwort pollen season which runs from late summer to fall. During the pollen season, people with mugwort allergy may notice their symptoms get worse or they may experience oral allergy symptoms when they eat foods that contain proteins that resemble those found in mugwort. This phenomenon is known as cross-reactivity between mugwort pollen and food allergens. |
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meadowsweet |
filipendula ulmaria |
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August In spring the young leaves can be eaten raw or cooked as a green. |
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japanese rose |
rosa rugosa |
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August Rose petal in honey |
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alexanders |
Alexanders is |
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August How to forage and cook alexanders. |
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water pepper |
persicaria hydropiper |
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August Soup. |
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wild marjoram |
origanum vulgare |
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August It is the perfect herb for seasoning meat but also works well when added to a medley of roast vegetables or fish and chicken stews, soups and casseroles. It also works well with dishes that include eggs or cheese. |
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sweet woodruff |
galium odoratum |
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August May Wine - Steep sprigs of dried sweet woodruff and crushed strawberries (sweetened with sugar if tart) in white wine in the refrigerator overnight, then strain the wine and serve it in a punch bowl garnished with whole strawberries and fresh sweet woodruff sprigs. |
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black mulberry |
morus nigra |
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August Mulberries work well as a substitute to blackberries and raspberries in recipes. They make excellent ices, fools and summer puddings, as well as jellies and jams. Best of all, eat them raw with sugar and cream. |
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white mulberry |
morus alba |
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August Eat 1 small handful per day. Add to smoothies, salads, desserts, yogurt or cereal |
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common hazel |
corylus avellana |
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August The name "hazelnut" applies to the nuts of any of the species of the genus Corylus. This hazelnut or cobnut, the kernel of the seed, is edible and used raw or roasted, or ground into a paste. |
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elder |
sambucus nigra |
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September Flowers & fruit. Make sure you always process the flowers and cook the ripe black berries, and never eat any of the green parts, they will make you very sick. |
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porcini |
boletus edulis |
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September The word cep is a Gascon term for the Boletus edulis mushroom (called ‘porcino’ in Italian). The same mushroom is called the ‘penny bun’ in English. This mushroom is generally agreed by connoisseurs to be among the finest eating mushrooms. |
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cherry plum |
prunus cerasifera |
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September As Cherry plums are considered a benchmark cooking plum, sure bets would be to preserve and jam, make pies and crumbles, but fresh-eating should be the first choice to experience the unique flavors of the Cherry plum. |
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rowan |
sorbus aucuparia |
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September The fruit, depending on the cultivar, can actually be toxic in some cases, but most of that toxicity fades if heated or frozen for extended periods of time. Commonly, the berries are used in alcoholic beverages or liqueurs, but can also be used as a bitter side flavoring of certain game dishes. They are also commonly pressed into jams and jellies. |
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red sentinel crab apple |
malus x robusta |
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blackberry |
rubus fruticosus |
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wild plum |
prunus domestica |
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September Tart Wild plums can be eaten fresh, but are often canned and preserved as jams, jellies, sauces, or syrups. They make great pies, tarts, and buckles. Wild plums are used to flavor liqueurs and wines. |
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pied de mouton (Hedgehog Mushroom) |
hydnum repandum |
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October I will simply crumble them into sizzling foamy butter with a slivered shallot and serve them on toast, to begin. Then I will toss some into the pot with some chicken that I have browned and crispened and then combined with some wilted onions, shallots, pine nuts and spices, and smother them, top tight on the pan, with a splash of white wine, until the juices mingle and caramelize at the bottom. This will be nice with some courgettes. |
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wood avens |
geum urbanum |
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October I make a rich, clove scented syrup by simmering the cleaned roots in 2:1 sugar:water solution for 5 minutes then leaving to infuse for a few weeks. The resulting syrup will keep well if you add a wee glug of neutral spirit. I then use it to sweeten cocktails, aromatised wines, desserts etc. |
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horn of plenty |
craterellus cornucopioides |
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October Horns of plenty woodland mushrooms have a deliciously rich flavour that works well with creamy sauces or in soups or stews with chicken, polenta or pasta. Clean them carefully before use to get rid of any grit. |
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dog rose |
rosa canina |
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October Rose hips are used for tisanes, jam, jelly, syrup, rose hip soup, beverages, pies, bread, wine, and marmalade. Emergency Outdoors details many more edible wild plants |
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common sorrel |
rumex acetosella |
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October 10 recipes for soups, salad and main dishes |
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procumbent yellow sorrel (Creeping Wood Sorrel) |
oxalis corniculata |
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October Refreshing drink, raw leaves or flowers can be used in salads. |
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hawthorn |
crataegus monogyna |
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November Jelly, sauce and soup |
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sweet chestnut |
castanea sativa |
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November Vacuum-packed chestnuts are of variable quality. The best are made from whole, unbroken nuts and work well in soups, stuffings, stews and sauces. |
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wood blewit |
clitocybe nuda |
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November See difference between edible Wood Blewit Mushroom and poisonous Cortinarius violaceous. Unfortunately there are some similar species that are very poisonous, so please see my Edible Mushrooms A-Z page for full description and pictures of Wood Blewits. And visit Wild Mushrooms Online, and Mushroom-Collecting.com for more. Recipes for pickled or frying these mushrooms. |
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field blewit |
lepista saeva |
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November Blewit mushrooms can be eaten as a cream sauce or sautéed in butter, but it is important not to eat them raw, which could lead to indigestion. They can also be cooked like tripe or as omelette filling |
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scots pine |
pinus sylvestris |
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November Gather pine nuts, make pine needle tea and male pine cone flour. |
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juniper |
juniperus communis |
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November Recipes using juniper berries |
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quince |
cydonia oblonga |
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November Quince jelly and other recipes. |
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winter chanterelle |
craterellus tubaeformis |
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December These mushrooms grow during the pheasant shooting season and fit naturally in any game casseroles, pies or stews – see the recipe for Pheasants with winter chanterelles and root vegetables. |
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blackthorn |
prunus spinosa |
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yarrow |
achillea millefolium |
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wall bellflower |
campanula porten-schlagiana |
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December Leaves and flowers. An evergreen plant, the mild flavoured but rather chewy leaves can be eaten all year round, whilst the flowers are produced in late spring and early summer - The flowers have a pleasant sweet flavour and make a decorative addition to the salad bowl. |
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salad burnet |
sanguisorba minor |
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December Salad and soup garnish. |
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hairy bittercress |
cardamine hirsuta |
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cockspur |
crataegus persimilis 'Prunifolia' |
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Hot peppers can make you feel like your mouth is on fire. The American Chemical Society explains the science behind that burn and why drinking water is one of the worse things you can do to ease that pain. The chemical compound responsible for the burning sensation you can get when eating spicy foods is called capsaicin. It binds to pain receptors in your mouth, which then can trigger a reaction like your eyes tearing up or your nose running. The video explains that capsaicin is a non-polar molecule and dissolves in other non-polar molecules, so drinking milk, which contains non-polar molecules, will give you relief. (No wonder that Thai and Indian cuisines, often so spicy, incorporate a lot of dairy into their meals.) Water on the other hand? It’s a polar substance and it will just spread the capsaicin around your mouth making the heat even worse. A few other ingredients can help you cool your mouth after eating spicy foods:- Oils work the same way, which means foods like peanut butter will help. High-proof alcohol can do the same. Carb-heavy foods like rice and bread can mop up the capsaicin, while sugar and honey interfere with your ability to feel the heat (even though the capsaicin is still in your mouth.) |
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Wild Flower 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, to see photos in its Flowering Months and to read habitat details in its Habitat Column.
Topic - Wildlife on Plant Photo Gallery . |
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Wild Flower Family Page (the families within "The Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers" by David McClintock & R.S.R. Fitter, Published in 1956 are not in Common Name alphabetical order and neither are the common names of the plants detailed within each family. These families within that book will have their details described as shown in the next column starting from page 1 in February 2017 until all the families have been completed on page 307. This may take a few months of my time before I get to the Adder's Tongue Family on page 307. The information in the above book is back-referenced to the respective page in "Flora of the British Isles" by A.R. Clapham of University of Sheffield, followed by No. of Plants of that Family that have a row with their details in their flower colour in this central data table; and then the relevant entries in the Habitat Index Pages and other charact-eristics in other Index Pages in the Page Menu / Index Table on the right within this gallery |
Barberry 2 |
Buttercup 45 |
Fumitory 3 |
Hornwort 2 |
Peony 1 |
Poppy 9 |
Total 65 |