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

Anthriscus sylvestris Cow Parsley
Abundant by roadsides, in grassy places and in some open woods.
Anthriscus caucalis Bur Parsley
Rather local, nearly always by the sea, e.g. at Pettycur and Crail.
(Scandix pecten-veneris Shepherd’s Needle)
A former weed, occasionally established; now casual only (1964).
Myrrhis odorata Sweet Cicely
Common by roads, tracks and burns, often in quantity, as west of Auchtertool.
Smyrnium olusatrum Alexanders
Locally abundant near the sea, e.g. at Pittenweem.
Conopodium majus Pignut
Widespread and common in grassland and woods, sometimes abundant.
[Pimpinella major Greater Burnet
Saxifrage]
Error.
Pimpinella saxifraga Burnet Saxifrage
Local in dry grassy or rocky spots.
Aegopodium podagraria Bishopweed
Very common, an ineradicable weed.
[Sium latifolium Greater Water Parsnip]
Error.
Berula erecta Lesser Water Parsnip
Rather rare in coastal marshes in NE Fife; also in quantity inland at Kinghorn Loch.
[Crithmum maritimum Rock Samphire]
Reported many years ago but unlikely ever to have occurred.
Oenanthe fistulosa Tubular Water Dropwort
Very rare, just hanging on in the Newburgh area.
Oenanthe crocata Hemlock Water
Dropwort
Locally common near the sea, and upstream from river/burn mouths.
(Oenanthe aquatica Fine-leaved Water
Dropwort)
Extinct (1876).