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Wildflowers of the UK

Wildflowers of the UK

Please take any photographs you can of 'native species' (naturally occurring in the UK) and not 'introduced species' (not naturally occurring in the UK) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildflower Also, please do not include photographs of wildflowers you have grown from packets of seeds. If you have not seen a wildflower in your area before, then please say so under 'notes' when you upload your spotting. If you have lost a wildflower in your area, then please find a spotting that someone else has uploaded of that wildflower, and tell the mission in that comment box. Although this is a serious mission, we hope you enjoy taking photographs and submitting your spottings. Happy snapping! Sign in to join mission

Wildflowers of the UK
Created by

Elizabeth Colley

8 participants 66 spottings

Over the past 60 years Britain has gradually lost 10 of it's native wildflower species. In recent years, wildflowers have been disappearing at the alarming rate of 1 species per year - so say the express.co.uk today 13th September 2012: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/345719/-Drip-by-drip-loss-of-wildflowers The aim of this mission is to collect data from every corner of the UK, to give us a better picture of what is happening. We greatly appreciate your help in this very important mission.

Wildflowers of the UK

Lat: 53.82 Long: -3.06

Recent Spottings

Red deadnettle Daniel Rowson 1 2 Red deadnettle
Herb Robert Daniel Rowson 1 0 Herb Robert
Unknown spotting Lipase 1 0 Unknown spotting
Rhododendron species Lipase 1 0 Rhododendron species
Unknown spotting Lipase 0 0 Unknown spotting
Plantain sp. Lipase 0 1 Plantain sp.
Addersmat? Lipase 0 0 Addersmat?
Common Wood Sorrel Lipase 0 2 Common Wood Sorrel
Ground Ivy Lipase 0 5 Ground Ivy
Purple Deadnettle Lipase 0 4 Purple Deadnettle
Lesser Celandine Lipase 0 6 Lesser Celandine
Unknown spotting Lipase 0 1 Unknown spotting
Bear Leek? Lipase 0 3 Bear Leek?
Lesser Celandine RuthCorbett 2 1 Lesser Celandine
Common spotted orchid rat.tumour 3 9 Common spotted orchid
Common Mallow? rat.tumour aka lipase 0 0 Common Mallow?
Wild Parsley rat.tumour aka lipase 0 0 Wild Parsley
Unknown spotting rat.tumour aka lipase 0 2 Unknown spotting
sp. in mint family rat.tumour aka lipase 0 3 sp. in mint family
White Deadnettle LauraMaria 1 0 White Deadnettle
Common Bluebell LauraMaria 4 2 Common Bluebell
Perennial Cornflower LauraMaria 5 2 Perennial Cornflower
Red Clover LauraMaria 1 0 Red Clover
Common Daisy LauraMaria 1 0 Common Daisy
Common Ragwort LauraMaria 4 2 Common Ragwort
Viper's Bugloss LauraMaria 0 2 Viper's Bugloss
Lesser Celandine LauraMaria 2 0 Lesser Celandine
Germander Speedwell LauraMaria 2 0 Germander Speedwell
Cow's Parsley LauraMaria 0 1 Cow's Parsley
Greater Celandine LauraMaria 1 4 Greater Celandine
Garlic Mustard LauraMaria 3 2 Garlic Mustard
Changing Forget-me-not LauraMaria 1 0 Changing Forget-me-not
Dandelion LauraMaria 0 2 Dandelion
Common Broom LauraMaria 3 2 Common Broom
Greater Stitchwort LauraMaria 0 1 Greater Stitchwort
Common Gorse lmjbre 2 9 Common Gorse
Green Alkanet LauraMaria 2 0 Green Alkanet
Grape Hyacinth LauraMaria 0 0 Grape Hyacinth
Red Deadnettle LauraMaria 0 0 Red Deadnettle
Ground Ivy LauraMaria 0 0 Ground Ivy
Marsh Marigold LauraMaria 0 0 Marsh Marigold
Shepherd's Purse LauraMaria 0 0 Shepherd's Purse
Thyme-leaved Speedwell LauraMaria 0 0 Thyme-leaved Speedwell
Unknown spotting rat.tumour 0 0 Unknown spotting
Thistle sp. rat.tumour 0 0 Thistle sp.
Unknown spotting rat.tumour aka lipase 0 0 Unknown spotting
Unknown spotting rat.tumour aka lipase 0 0 Unknown spotting
Unknown spotting rat.tumour aka lipase 0 0 Unknown spotting
Unknown spotting rat.tumour aka lipase 0 0 Unknown spotting
Unknown spotting rat.tumour aka lipase 0 0 Unknown spotting

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