Flora Page 2

Ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare

Flowers May to September. One of the first meadow flowers to colonise unsprayed grassland.

Flowers May to July. Leaves have been eaten as a vegetable but are very bitter.

Wintercress, Barbarea vulgaris

Meadow foxtail, Alopecurus pratensis

Flowers June to September. A very striking flower, and a distinctive seed case shaped like a bird's bill.

Meadow crane’s-bill, Geranium pratense

Hogweed, Heraleum sphondylium

The commonest tall wayside umbellifer of the summer and autumn. Children used to make pea-shooters out of the large, hollow seeding stems.

Flowers June to July, fruits a black berry. Used to be used for butchers' skewers.

Dogwood, Cornus sanguinea