Flora
Are you a botanist?
NWT are looking for people who are good at plant identification to try to establish a plant species list at ALNR. Is this you? If you can help, please contact us through the button to the right.
Even if you are not, but you spot a species you haven't seen before, please send us a photo so we can check it and add it to our list.
NWT are looking for people who are good at plant identification to try to establish a plant species list at ALNR. Is this you? If you can help, please contact us through the button to the right.
Even if you are not, but you spot a species you haven't seen before, please send us a photo so we can check it and add it to our list.
8 April - Marsh Marigolds at Beatles Pond
6 April 2018
Colstfoot is staring to appear, this plant is near the AAA pond. More was spotted between Coop Lake and the boundary ditch.
This plant pushes it's flowers up before any leaves appear.
It has been used in traditional medicine as a treatment for respiratory tract diseases, but apparently there are some concerns about its impact on the liver because it also contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
This plant pushes it's flowers up before any leaves appear.
It has been used in traditional medicine as a treatment for respiratory tract diseases, but apparently there are some concerns about its impact on the liver because it also contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
July 2017
29 July - Rod Newborough saw roe buck stripping on a willow in South Wood
30 July - Susie Mendel saw cinnabar caterpillars on ragwort in South Wood
30 July - Susie Mendel shows how big the crab apples are getting
30 July - Rod Newborough has cut the paths again - looks lovely!
A good place to look online if you need help identifying a plant is Botanical Keys but make sure you have observed the whole plant, particularly the leaves, which support the id.
July Flora and Fruit
2 July the crab apples ripening
2 July waterlilies on Beatles Pond
8 July 2017 guelder rose
8 July 2017 hazelnuts
17 July 2017 bees love teasels in the summer
17 July 2017 .. so goldfinches can enjoy them in the winter
17 July 2017 agrimony
17 July 2017 red bartsia
17 July 2017 yarrow
17 July 2017 yellow loosestrife
17 July 2017 great willowherb
17 July 2017 common fleabane
Flowers in June
4 June 2017 Lovely roses everywhere!
4 June 2017 Common vetch
10 June 2017 Common spotted orchid (thanks Rod!)
18 June 2017 hoary plantain
17 June 2017 Oxeye daisies and privet
17 June 2017 Fox and cubs
14 June 2017 knapweed (with bee)
17-06-20 tufted vetch
17-06-20 sainfoin
17-06-20 St John's wort
17-06-20 silverweed
17-06-20 meadowsweet
17-06-20 bramble
17-06-20 hedge bedstraw
17-06-20 bristly ox-tongue
30 May 2017
30 May 2017 Yellow Meadow Vetchling
30 May 2017 one of the cranesbills - any ID please?
30 May 2017 Marsh thistle, growing in profusion in Cooperative Wood
30 May 2017 southern marsh orchid
2 June 2017 another orchid, this time in Coop Wood, thanks Rod
18 - 23 May - new blooms
Yellow Rattle
Yellow flag
Ribwort plantain
Cut leaved cranesbill (with a lacewing on a nearby grass leaf)
Red clover
Bird's foot trefoil
Raged robin
Meadow buttercup
Rowan
Guelder rose
Guelder Rose
Name this grass?
Variegated honeysuckle - not a wild flower, but smells lovely!
21 May Pink Horse Chestnut Aesculus x carnea
Lesser trefoil
Oxeye daisy
Privet
White clover
Hawkweed
Teasels growing strongly in mid-May
New species in flower on 7 May 2017
Cow Parsley
Hawthorn
Herb Robert
Marsh Marigold
Flowering plants at ALNR on 15 April 2017
White nettle
Forget me not
Red campion
Ground ivy
Yellow archangel
Blubells
Primroses
A host of golden dandelions
Apple blossom
Daisy
Gorse
The Wykes
The rainy weather in 2016 was a great benefit to this wetland area in North Wood at ALNR. The plant species that were selected for the margins are thriving and are in full colour. The photo shows yellow loosestrife and ragged robin in the foreground.
If you visit the Wykes, please keep to the paths so as not to disturb the planting and keep your feet dry.
Thanks to Rod Newborough for the photo.
The rainy weather in 2016 was a great benefit to this wetland area in North Wood at ALNR. The plant species that were selected for the margins are thriving and are in full colour. The photo shows yellow loosestrife and ragged robin in the foreground.
If you visit the Wykes, please keep to the paths so as not to disturb the planting and keep your feet dry.
Thanks to Rod Newborough for the photo.
1 April 2017 Cowslips
14 March 2017 Coltsfoot
Cuckooflower or Lady's Smock
Oak spangle gall
Common Fleabane
Ragged robin
June 2016 Fox and Cubs