Birdsfoot Trefoil (lotus corniculatus)
birds foot trefoil

P.  Low-growing meadow and grassland plant.  Good for butterflies, particularly blues.  More info.  1 left.

 

 

Bladder Campion (silene vulgaris)
bladdercampion

P.  Meadow plant.  Likes full sun.  Tall stems with white flowers - a bladder-like pod surrounded by petals - pretty.  Food plant of the following moths - Campion, Marbled Coronet, Nettle Pug, Marbles Clover and Dark brocade.  Flowers May to September.

 

 

Chicory (cichorium intybus)
chicory

P.  Very pretty sky-blue flowers.  Also known as Monks Beard and Succory.  Flowers July to october.  Ht 1 - 2 ft or so.  Good bee plant.  More info

 

 

Cowslip (primula veris)
cowslip

P.  H.  Thick, wrinkly leaves and stems topped with clusters of yellow flowers.  Spring meadow plant.  Not so common now in the wild.  Much folklore surrounding the plant.  Origin of seed - Lincolnshire.  More info

Dark Mullein (verbascum thapsus)

B.  Moth plant.  Large wrinkly dark green leaves form a rosette from which emerges tall, thick stem with masses of yellow flowers.  Ht about 4 ft.  3 left.

Evening Primrose (oenothera biennis)
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B.  Large rosette of leaves from which emerges stems full of vivid yellow flowers.  Likes sun, doesn't like damp.  Popular herb plant.  Flowers June to October. Moth plant.


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