Woodland & hedges: plants

  • Red Campion

    Red Campion is at its most vibrant from the spring into summer. Find it in woodland edges, hedgerows and roadside verges. Photo: Steve Townsend

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  • Silk Button Gall

    Silk Button Galls, induced by a parasitic wasp, are one of the many kinds of galls found on our native oak trees. Head to our section on invertebrates to find […]

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  • Silk Button Gall on oak

    Silk Button Gall

    Silk Button Galls, one of the many kinds of galls found on our native oaks, really do look as if they have been spun from silken thread. Photo: Amanda Scott

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  • Snowdrops

    In February, the weather might still be cold and blustery, but snowdrops, the early heralds of spring, are already poking out their gleaming white heads. Photo: Amanda Scott

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  • Spangle gall

    Spangle Galls, created by a parasitic wasp, are one of the many kinds of galls found on oak trees. Head to our section on invertebrates to find out more. Photo: […]

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  • Spangle galls

    Spangle galls

    Spangle Galls, which are created by a parasitic wasp, are one of the many kinds of galls found on oak trees. These were spotted at Croft Noweth on Goonhilly. Photo: […]

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  • Traveller’s-joy

    It is a joy to find our only native clematis scrambling through a hedge or fence. Photo: © Natural England/Peter Roworth

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  • Wild Teasel

    The dried spiny seedheads of Wild Teasel persist throughout the autumn and winter. They can be found in many habitats, including sand dunes, providing food for birds like Goldfinches. Photo: […]

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  • Winter Heliotrope

    This winter-flowering, vanilla-scented plant of waste places and roadsides is not native to Britain, but is a valuable source of nectar for emerging insects in the earliest days of spring. […]

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  • Wood anemone

    Also known as Windflower, the Wood Anemone is a flower of early spring, found in woodland glades and old hedgerows.Photo: Steve Townsend

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  • Wood-sorrel

    Wood-sorrel blooms in April and May. Photo: Amanda Scott

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