Tag: Cornwall
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Hottentot-fig
The bright pink and yellow flowers of Hottentot-fig look cheerful on sea cliffs in the summer, but this is an introduced and invasive species. Photo: Phil Sellens (Wikimedia Commons)
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Marsh Fritillary
This small and delicate butterfly is a protected species due to its serious decline in numbers, but The Lizard is one of its strongholds. Find them on Mullion Cliffs or […]
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Subterranean Clover
Lizard ‘clover season’ is from spring to early summer. One to look out for is the small and unassuming Subterranean Clover, found on shallow soils or amongst short turf close […]
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Wild Chives
Lovely Chives can be found flowering from May to July. Mullion Cliffs is a good place to spot them. Photo: © Natural England/Neil Pike
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Oystercatcher
Oystercatchers are often spotted round The Lizard’s shoreline. Photo: © Allan Drewitt/Natural England
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Red Fox
The Red Fox is largely nocturnal creature, but can sometimes be spotted in the daytime. Photo: © Richard Birchett
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Early-purple Orchid
Early-purple Orchids enjoy the serpentine soils of the Lizard. Photo: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt
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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
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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: © Natural England/Allan Drewitt
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Golden Hair-lichen
It is always a pleasure to find the rare and beautiful Golden Hair-lichen. Kynance is a good place to search. Photo: Björn S…, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Lesser Celandine
The bright buttery glint of Lesser Celandine in the hedgerows and fields is a welcome early sign of spring. Photo: Amanda Scott
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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
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Dog’s Mercury
Found mainly in woodlands and hedgerows, Dog’s Mercury is far from showy, but is distinguished by being one of the earlier plants to flower each year. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, […]
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Championing the Lizard’s rare liverworts
The Lizard is justly recognised as a hotspot for mosses and liverworts, as much as it is for rare clovers, rushes and wild asparagus. This article explains more and highlights an […]
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Land Quillwort
Look out for the ‘Catherine Wheel’ leaf rosettes of Land Quillwort between autumn and spring, a plant that, in mainland Britain, is only found on The Lizard. Photo: Steve Townsend
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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. […]