wild flowers in fife & kinross - Fife Coast and Countryside Trust

Introduced at Cleish Castle, c.1800-50.
Arabis caucasica Garden Arabis
Rarely naturalised on old walls.
Arabis hirsuta Hairy Rock-cress
Local on dry banks and cliffs.
Aubrieta deltoidea Aubretia
Rarely naturalised on old walls.
Lunaria annua Honesty
An occasional escape, sometimes persisting for a time.
(Ayssum alyssoides Small Alison)
Former casual; established near Burntisland between at least 1853-1906.
Alyssum saxatile Golden Alison
Rarely established on old walls, as in Falkland.
Draba muralis Wall Whitlow-grass
Occasionally established on old walls, and as a weed.
Erophila verna Common Whitlow-grass
Common on bare ground in the spring.
Erophila glabrescens Glabrous Whitlow-grass
Recently determined from 19th century herbarium specimens; see next.
Erophila majuscula Hairy Whitlow-grass
As last: present status of both unknown.
[Cochlearia anglica Narrow-leaved
Scurvygrass]
Error.
Cochlearia officinalis Common Scurvygrass
Common by the sea.
Cochlearia danica Danish Scurvygrass
Local on bare gound near sea; also by roadsides, including the central
reservation of the A90 off the Forth Road Bridge 1995 —>.
Capsella bursa-pastoris Shepherd’s Purse
A very common weed.
Teesdalia nudicaulis Shepherd’s Cress
Uncommon in NE Fife, mainly at Tentsmuir.