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

Aethusa cynapium Fool’s Parsley
A rather local weed of arable and waste ground.
(Silaum silaus Pepper Saxifrage)
Formerly rare, in the East Neuk in 1870-90s.
Meum athamanticum Spignel
Still in the more remote parts of Kinross, very rare elsewhere.
Conium maculatum Hemlock
Common in waste and damp ground, increasing; very rare in Kinross.
Apium graveolens Wild Celery
Formerly rarely established by the sea, e.g. on Isle of May 1879 to at least 1958;
now probably casual only.
(Apium nodiflorum x repens Creeping Marshwort)
Recorded from Kinghorn Loch between 1870-1953, but current identity and status
are unknown; recent reports refer to Berula erecta.
Apium inundatum Lesser Marshwort
Rather local on mud or sheltered margins of freshwater pools.
Petroselinum crispum Garden Parsley
A rare escape, occasionally persisting, as on rocks above Kinghorn Loch.
Cicuta virosa Cowbane
Very rare, now only at Otterston Loch.
Ligusticum scoticum Scots Lovage
Local on rocks and stony shores, mainly round the East Neuk.
Angelica sylvestris Wild Angelica
Common in damp spots.
Levisticum officinale Lovage
Rarely established here and there over several years.
Peucedanum ostruthium Masterwort
Rarely naturalised, chiefly in Kinross, as at Tillyrie.
Pastinaca sativa Wild Parsnip
Rarely naturalised: in Inverkeithing area and at Crail.
Heracleum sphondylium Hogweed
Very common in all sorts of places.