March
Red Campion on Heysham Head, Lancashire
March is a terrific time for English wild flowers.
After the desultory start to the year in January and February, spring flowers seem to appear daily in
most types of habitats.
This is particularly true of woodlands, where spring flowers such as bluebells and wood anemone,
carpet the woodland floor before the leaf canopy closes over.
In hedgerows, Blackthorn gleams white in leafless hedges and Greater Stitchwort (poor man's
buttonhole) and Alexanders colour he hedge-banks with white and yellow.
By the coast, Sea and Red Campion provide splashes of white and pink amongst the Bluebell and
Gorse.
- Alpine Squill
- American Skunk-cabbage
- Armand Clematis
- Ash
- Balkan Anemone
- Balm-of Gilead
- Blackthorn
- Bluebells
- Blue-eyed Mary
- Box
- Bulbous Buttercup
- Butterbur
- Cherry Laurel
- Common Dog-violet
- Common Sallow (Grey Willow)
- Corkscrew Willow
- Cowslip
- Creeping Comfrey
- Cuckooflower
- Dwarf Pansy
- Early Dog-violet
- Early Spider-orchid
- Eastern Rocket
- Elephant-ears
- European Larch
- Field Horsetail
- Flowering Currant
- Garden Arabis
- Garden Grape-hyacinth
- Giant Herb-Robert
- Giant Honey Flower
- Great Horsetail
- Greater Stitchwort
- Green Alkanet
- Ground-ivy
- Hairy Violet
- Hedge Barberry
- Hottentot-fig
- Hyacinth
- Ivy-leaved Crowfoot
- Ivy-leaved Speedwell
- Ivy-leaved Toadflax
- Japanese Larch
- Lawson's Cypress
- Lesser Celandine ssp. verna
- Marsh Marigold
- Medium-flowered Winter-cress
- Medlar
- Moschatel
- Norway Maple
- Pale Dewplant
- Peach
- Perennial Wallflower
- Prickly Sow-thistle
- Purple Dewplant
- Purple Toothwort
- Purple Willow
- Rape
- Red Campion
- Rosemary
- Sally-my-handsome
- Sand Crocus
- Sea Campion
- Shrubby Scorpion-vetch
- Slender Speedwell
- Smooth Sow-thistle
- Spotted Dead-nettle
- Spotted Laurel
- Sun Spurge
- Sweet Cicely
- Thale Cress
- Wallflower
- Wall Speedwell
- Wild Cherry
- Wild Daffodil
- Wood Anemone
- Wood Spurge
- Yellow Corydalis
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