Tag: Cornwall

  • Common Fleabane

    Common Fleabane

    From August to September, the golden flowers of Common Fleabane brighten up damp meadows and stream edges. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Great Green Bush-cricket

    Great Green Bush-cricket

    The Great Green Bush-cricket’s preferred habitat is brambly scrubland, bracken and hedges. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Pineappleweed

    Pineappleweed

    With its long flowering period (May to early autumn) and beautiful scent when crushed, Pineappleweed is a common find by paths, on wasteland and in arable grass on The Lizard. […]

  • Autumn Squill

    Autumn Squill

    As the swallows prepare to leave in the early autumn, delicate blooms of Autumn Squill appear on The Lizard. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

    Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

    On The Lizard, this pretty butterfly is mainly a coastal species. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Clouded Yellow

    Clouded Yellow

    Clouded Yellow butterflies are summer visitors, arriving from May to June. The coast is a good place to watch out for them. Photo: Dougy Wright 

  • Common Centaury

    Common Centaury

    With a long flowering period from June to October, the pink flowers of Common Centaury can be found across The Lizard from summer to autumn. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Gold-ringed Dragonfly

    Gold-ringed Dragonfly

    Gold-ringed Dragonflies have a mostly western distribution in the UK. Look out for them on The Lizard’s heathland. Photo: © Natural England/Isabel Alonso

  • 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 […]

  • Smooth Hawk’s-beard

    Smooth Hawk’s-beard

    Often found on bare ground and road verges, as well as on heaths and grasslands, the yellow flowers of Smooth Hawk’s-beard can be seen brightening The Lizard from mid-summer until […]

  • Dodder

    Dodder

    Watch out for the red stems of the parasitic plant Dodder scrambling over gorse and heather. It flowers between July and September. Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Cornish Heath

    Cornish Heath

    The lovely Cornish Heath, in Great Britain only found growing naturally on the serpentine rocks of The Lizard, starts to flower in mid-summer.  Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Chamomile

    Chamomile

    Chamomile blooms from mid-summer, carpeting and scenting grassy fields on the Lizard.  Photo: Amanda Scott

  • Round-leaved Sundew

    Round-leaved Sundew

    The paths and open firebreaks of the Crousa Downs are a good place to look for Round-leaved Sundew in the summer. Photo: Amanda Scott