Category: freshwater-p

  • Bog Asphodel

    Bog Asphodel

    This bright plant of boggy areas on the heathland puts on an amazing display in early summer. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Pigmy Rush

    Pigmy Rush

    In the early days of summer, look out for diminutive, pink-flushed Pigmy Rush along the ancient trackways of The Lizard. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Ragged-robin

    Ragged-robin

    Tousled pink flowers of Ragged-robin sway on their tall stems from late spring through to summer’s end. Photo: © Natural England/Chris Gomersall

  • Bar-tailed Godwit

    Bar-tailed Godwit

    Look out for this long-beaked wader round the Lizard coastline in winter, or on passage in spring and autumn. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt

  • Pillwort

    Pillwort

    Look out for the rare, small fern Pillwort, which has benefited from conservation work on The Lizard. Ruan Pool on Windmill Farm is a good place to search. Photo: Steve […]

  • Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage

    Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage

    Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage is a low, spreading plant that lights up damp shady places with a golden glow in spring. Photo: Steve Townsend

  • Three-lobed Crowfoot

    Three-lobed Crowfoot

    This speciality of muddy tracks and ruts on The Lizard starts to show its delicate, tiny white flowers in February and March. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Marsh Ragwort

    Marsh Ragwort

    Marsh Ragwort can be seen flowering in the marshier places and wet meadows on the Lizard from high summer to early autumn. Photo: Steve Townsend

  • Hemp-agrimony

    Hemp-agrimony

    The fluffy pink flowers of Hemp-agrimony blossom in damp places on The Lizard in mid- to late-summer. Photo: Amanda Scott 

  • Lesser Water-plantain

    Lesser Water-plantain

    This pretty three-petalled plant can be found in the summer at the edges of water and in boggy puddles. Good places to look are Goonhilly, Windmill Farm and the Grochall […]

  • Yellow Centaury

    Yellow Centaury

    Delicate Yellow Centaury, which blooms in high summer, only opens its tiny flowers in bright sunshine, so go looking in decent weather. Windmill Farm and the Grochall Track are two […]