The Protection of Wildflowers - The Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981

The following wildflowers are protected under the provisions of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. To summarise very briefly, it is an offence for anyone to "intentionally pick, uproot, destroy any wild plant on Schedule 8" - Section 13(1)(a). It is also an offence under Section 13(1)(b) for "any unauthorised person to intentionally uproot any wild plant" - protected or otherwise. It is also an offence to "sell, offer or expose for sale or possess or transport for the purpose of sale, any live or dead wild plant (or any part of anything derived from such a plant) on Schedule 8.

Please abide by these laws as they are there to protect our native plants which are rapidly disappearing or on the verge of extincton. Bear in mind also that the reduction in numbers of wildflowers also has a knock on effect on the wildlife dependent on them for survival.

A - Adder's Tongue (Least), Alison (Small), Anomodon (Long-leaved)

B - Beech Lichen (New Forest), Blackwort, Bluebell, Bolete (Royal), Broomrape (Bedstraw, Ox Tongue and Thistle)

C - Cabbage (Lundy), Calamint (Wood), Caloplaca (Snow), Catapyrenium (Tree), Catchfly (Alpine), Catillaria (Laurer's), Centaury (Slender), Cinquefoil (Rock), Cladonia (Upright Mountain and Convoluted), Clary (Meadow), Clubrush (Triangular), Colt's Foot (Purple), Cotoneaster (Wild), Cottongrass (Slender), Cow Wheat (Field), Crimmia (Blunt-leaved), Crocus (Sand), Crystalwort (Lizard), Cudweed (Broad-leaved, Jersey and Red-tipped), Cut Grass

D - Diapensia, Dock (Shore), Dwarf Spike Rush

E - Earwort (Marsh), Eryngo (Field)

F - Feathermoss (Polar), Fern (Dickie's Bladder and Killarney), Flapwort (Norfolk), Fleabane (Alpine and Small), Fleawort (South Stack), Frostwort (Pointed)

G - Gallingale (Brown), Gentian (Alpine, Dune, Early and Fringed), Germander (Cut-leaved and Water), Gladiolus (Wild), Goosefoot (Stinking), Grasspoly, Goblin Lights, Gyalecta (Elm)

H - Hare's Ear (Sickle-leaved and Small), Hawksbeard (Stinking), Hawkweed (Shetland and Weak-leaved), Heath (Blue), Hedgehog Fungus, Helleborine (Red and Young's), Horsetail (Branched), Hound's Tongue (Green

K - Knawel (Perennial), Knotgrass (Sea)

L - Lady's Slipper (Sea), Lady's Slipper, Lecanactis (Churchyard), Leanora (Tarn), Lecidea (Copper), Leek (Round-headed), Lettuce (Least), Lichens (Arctic Kidney, Ciliate Strap, Coralloid Rosette, Ear-lobed Dog, Forked Hair, Orange-fruited, Elm, River Jelly, Scaley Breck and Starry Breck), Lily (Snowdon), Liverwort (Lindenberg's and Leafy)

M - Marshmallow (Rough), Marshwort (Creeping), Milk Parsley (Cambridge), Mosses (Alpine Copper, Baltic Bog, Blue Dew, Blunt-leaved Bristle, Bright Green Cave, Cordate Beard, Cornish Path, Derbyshire Feather, Dune hread, Glaucous Beard, Green Shield, Hair Silk, Knothole, Large Yellow Feather, Millimetre, Multifruited River, Nowell;'s Limestone, Rigid Apple, Round-leaved Feather, Scleicher's Thread, Triangular Pygmy, and Vaucer's Feather), Mudwort (Welsh)

N - Naiad (Holly-leaved and Slender)

O - Orache (Stalked), Orchids (Early Spider [pictured right], Fen, Ghost, Lapland Marsh, Late Spider, Lizard, Military and Monkey)

P - Panneria (Caledonia), Parmelia (New Forest), Parmentaria (Oil Stain), Pear (Plymouth), Pennycress (Perfoliate), Pennyroyal, Pertusaria (Alpine Moss), Physica (Southern Grey), Pigmyweed, Pink (Cheddar, Childing, Deptford and Ground), Plantain (Floating Water), Polypore (Oak), Pseudo-cyphellaria (Ragged), Psora (Rusty Alpine), R - Ragwort (Fen), Ramping Fumitory (Martin's), Rampion (Spiked), Restharrow (Small), Rock Cress (Alpine and Bristol), Rustwort (Western

S - Sandwort (Norwegian and Teesdale), Saxifrage (Drooping, Marsh and Tufted), Solenopsora (Serpentine), Solomon's Seal (Whorled), Sow Thistle (Alpine), Spearwort (Adder's Tongue), Speedwell (Fingered and Spiked), Star of Bethlehem (Early), Starfruit, Stonewort (Foxtail and Bearded), Strapwort, Sulphur Tresses (Alpine)

T - Threadmoss (Long-leaved), Turpswort

V - Violet (Fen), Viper's Grass

W - Water Plantain (Ribbon-leaved), Wood Sedge (Starved), Woodsia (Alpine and Oblong), Wormwood (Field), Woundwort (Downy and Limestone)

Y - Yellow Rattle (Greater)

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