May
Sea pink and lichens (Caloplaca sp) at Silverdale, Lancs.
Usually in May, the tree canopies have closed over and most of the new wild flowers are found in the
open countryside.
This is not always the case. In 2013, for example, many of the early spring flowers were still flowering
and some plants, which were normally out at this time, had not appeared. That year we were
20 days behind normal. However, flowering soon caught up as the weather warmed up.
- Alder Buckthorn
- Atlas Poppy
- Bearded Iris
- Bee Orchid
- Bell Heather
- Bird's-eye Primrose
- Bird's-Foot
- Bird's-foot-trefoil
- Bird's-nest Orchid
- Biting Stonecrop
- Blackberry
- Black Bryony
- Black Mulberry
- Black Mustard
- Bladder Campion
- Blue-eyed-grass
- Blue Water-speedwell
- Bog Pimpernel
- Borage
- Broad Bean
- Broad-leaved Dock
- Brooklime
- Buck's-horn Plantain
- Buckthorn
- Burnet Rose
- Buttonweed
- Californian Poppy
- Canterbury-bells
- Cape Daisy
- Cat’s-ear
- Celery-leaved Buttercup
- Chalk Fragrant-orchid
- Chalkstream Water-crowfoot
- Cleavers
- Climbing Corydalis
- Common Bistort
- Common Broomrape
- Common Butterwort
- Common Comfrey
- Common Cow-wheat
- Common Figwort
- Common Gromwell
- Common Mallow
- Common Milkwort
- Common Nettle
- Common Rock-rose
- Common Sorrel
- Common Spotted-orchid
- Common Twayblade
- Common Vetch
- Creeping Buttercup
- Crimson Clover
- Curled Dock
- Cut-leaved Crane's-bill
- Dame's-violet
- Dropwort
- Dwarf Mallow
- Early Gentian
- Early Marsh-orchid
- Eastern Gladiolus
- Elder
- Escallonia
- Evergreen Spindle
- Fairy Flax
- False-buck’s-beard
- Field Madder
- Foxglove
- Garden Angelica
- Giant Viper's-bugloss
- Globeflower
- Grass Vetchling
- Goat's-beard
- Great Forget-me-not
- Green-winged Orchid
- Ground Blue-convolvulus
- Ground Elder
- Guelder Rose
- Hairy Buttercup
- Hairy Greenweed
- Hairy Tare
- Heath Bedstraw
- Heath Speedwell
- Heath Spotted-orchid
- Hedge Veronica
- Hedgerow Crane's-bill
- Hemlock Water-dropwort
- Herb-Paris
- Himalayan Clematis
- Hoary Plantain
- Hogweed
- Honey Garlic
- Hop Trefoil
- Horse Chestnut
- Horse-radish
- Horseshoe Vetch
- Hound's-tongue
- Italian Toadflax
- Japanese Rose
- Jerusalem Sage
- Juniper
- Kidney Vetch
- Laburnum
- Lady's-mantle
- Leopard Marsh-orchid
- Lesser Stitchwort
- Lesser Trefoil
- Lesser Water-plantain
- Lily-of-the-valley
- Little-Robin (prostrate form)
- Little-Robin (upright form)
- Lodgepole Pine
- Long-headed Poppy
- Lucerne
- Lucombe Oak
- Maritime Pine
- Marsh Arrowgrass
- Marsh Lousewort
- Marsh Stitchwort
- Meadow Vetchling
- Milk Thistle
- Mind-your-own-business
- Monkeyflower
- Monk's-hood
- Mountain Pansy
- Mouse-ear-hawkweed
- New Zealand Broadleaf
- Navelwort
- Northern Marsh-orchid
- Pale Flax
- Pale Yellow-eyed-grass
- Pedunculate Oak
- Pencilled Crane's-bill
- Phacelia
- Pignut
- Pineappleweed
- Pink Campion
- Pink-headed Persicaria
- Pokeweed
- Pond Water-crowfoot
- Portuguese Squill
- Pot Marigold
- Purple Iris
- Purple Toadflax
- Pyrenean Lily
- Ragged Robin
- Rare Lord-and-Ladies
- Raspberry
- Reversed Clover
- Rhododendron
- Rock Cotoneaster
- Rosy Garlic
- Rough Chervil
- Rough Clover
- Rowan
- Salad Burnet
- Salsify
- Sanicle
- Scarlet Pimpernel
- Scots Pine
- Sea Arrowgrass
- Sea-kale
- Sea-milkwort
- Sea Pea
- Sea Plantain
- Sea Radish
- Sea Sandwort
- Seaside Daisy
- Sessile Oak
- Sheep's-bit
- Shrub Goldilocks
- Shrub Ragwort
- Shrubby Cinquefoil
- Silverweed
- Slender Thistle
- Small Balsam
- Southern Marsh-orchid
- Spindle
- Spring Sandwort
- Star-of-Bethlehem
- Stinking Iris
- Tormentil
- Tree Bedstraw
- Tree Lupin
- Tree-mallow
- Turkey Oak
- Turkish Iris
- Upright Yellow-sorrel
- Weigelia
- Whistling Jack
- White Bryony
- White Campion
- White Clover
- Wild Cabbage
- Wild Mignonette
- Wild Radish
- Wild Thyme
- Wilson's Honeysuckle
- Winter-cress
- Wood Crane’s-Bill
- Yarrow
- Yellow-eyed-grass
- Yellow Horned-poppy
- Yellow Iris
- Yellow Pimpernel
- Yellow-rattle
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