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Bindweed – Hedge Bindweed, Morning Glory (Calystegia
sepium)
Flowers: July-September. Trumpet-shaped,
3-7 cm diameter, white, or pale pink with white stripes.
Leaves: pale matt green, simple, pointed
at the tip and arrowhead shaped, 5-10 cm long and 3-7 cm broad,
arranged spirally.
Height: 2-4 m.
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Bindweed
– Convolvulus, Morning Glory (Convolvulus)
Flowers: July-September. Trumpet-shaped
(deeper and larger than hedge bindweed), mostly white or pink.
Leaves: pale matt green, simple, pointed
at the tip and arrowhead shaped. (Larger than those of hedge Bindweed.)
Height: 0.3–3 m
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Blackberry/Bramble
Flowers: White/pink on a tangled prickly
shrub with thorny stems.
Leaves: trifoliate.
Height: long, arching canes which flower and set fruit
in the second year of growth.
Fruit can be harvested in lates summer and early autumn.
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Bluebell
– Spanish (Hyacinthoides hispanica)
Flowers: range in colour from pale to mid
blue, or white or pink, and have deep blue pollen.
Not to be encouraged as it will gradually take over from
our native species.
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Bluebell
– Hybrid
This white bluebell also occurs on Cock Road Ridge. It has the
English Bluebell characteristics of a ‘nodding’ raceme
of flowers bent over at the tip but the flowers occur all around
the stem. The pollen is white. |
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Common Cleaver
(Galium aparine)
Flowers: Spring to summer. White to greenish star-shaped
and tiny in groups of 2 or 3.
Leaves: Simple, narrowly oblanceolate to linear, borne
in whorls of six to eight from which flower stems emerge. These
also have small hooked hairs.
Length: Up to 91 cm or longer. The angular or square
shaped stems have small hooked hairs which attach or cleave allowing
the plant to scramble over other plants. |
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Cow Parsley/Queen
Anne's lace (Anthriscus sylvestris)
Flowers: Mid-spring to early summer. Umbels of small
white flowers branching from stem.
Leaves: Tripinnate. 15–30 cm long with a triangular
form.
Height: 60–170 cm. |
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Daisy (Bellis
perennis)
Flowers: Composite flowers consisting of white ray
florets (often tipped red) and yellow disc florets. (Each petal
is a flower.)
Leaves: Small rounded or spoon-shaped rosettes of leaves
that are from approximately 2–5 cm long and grow flat to
the ground.
Height: 2–10 cm long stems. |
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Dame’s
Violet/Dame’s Rocket/Damask violet/Dames-wort/Dame’s
Gilliflower/Night-scented Gilliflower/Queen’s Gilliflower/Rogue’s
Gilliflower, Summer Lilac/Sweet Rocket/Mother-of-the-evening/Winter
Gilliflower (Hesperis Matronalis)
Flowers: May-August, fragrant, white on Cock Road Ridge
but most commonly lavender and purple.
Leaves: rough, lanceolate, toothed, up to 12 cm long
and over 4 cm wide.
Height: Up to 1 m. |

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Fairy Flax
(Linum Catharticum)
Flowers: June-September, white with 5 petals.
Leaves: Undivided in opposite pairs on the stem.
Height: 30 cm |
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Hogweed
(Heracleum sphondylium)
Flowers: June-October, pinkish or white, 5 petals.
Arranged in large umbels of up to 20 cm diameter with 15 to 30
rays.
Leaves: 50 cm long, pinnate, hairy, serrated, divided
into 3-5 lobed segments.
Height: 50–120 cm, max 2 m, striated, hollow
stem with bristly hairs. |
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Horseradish (Armoracia
rusticana)
Flowers: May-June. Branched cluster of small white,
4-petalled flowers.
Leaves: Simple or pinnately lobed.
Height: Up to 1.5 m.
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Nettle -
White Dead-Nettle/Bee Nettle (Lamium album)
Flowers: March-December, white, 1.5-2.5 cm long, produced
in whorls on the upper part of the stem.
Leaves: 3-8 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, triangular with
a rounded base, softly hairy, serrated margin. Similar to those
of the Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) but do not sting.
Height: 50-100 cm with four-angled stems.
Bees, especially bumble bees and mason bees, are attracted to
the flowers which are a good source of early nectar and pollen.
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Pignut (Conopodium
majus)
Flowers: May-June. White flowerhead with total diameter
of c 3-7 cm, with individual flowers about 3 mm across. Similar
to dill.
Leaves: Similar to parsley.
Height: 30.5 – 45.72 cm. |
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Snowdrop
(Galanthus)
Flowers: White in early spring.
Leaves: Linear
Height: 7–15 cm |
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Wood Violet
(Viola sororia)
Flowers: April-June, range from dark violet to white.
Leaves: Heart-shaped.
Height: 9-14 cm. |
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Yarrow (Achillea
millefolium)
Flowers: May-June. 4 to 9 bracts or modified leaves
contain white to pink 3 to 8 ray flowers and 15 to 40 disk flowers
in a flat-topped cluster.
Leaves: 5–20 cm long, bipinnate or tripinnate,
almost feathery, arranged spirally on the stems.
Height: 0.2 to 1 m. |
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