PTGlasgow Easter 18 mag

Be a 

Wild Flower 

Spotter 

THERE’S A CERTAIN CHARM 

to the subdued hues of winter but there’s 

nothing quite like seeing the world spring into 

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Yarrow 

White clover 

Bramble 

Wild flower 

Achillea millefolium 

Trifolium repens 

Rubus fruti 

Pretty little flowers, usually 

Small white flowers in tight 

Easily recog 

spotter white sheet 

but sometimes pink, 

globe-shaped clusters. 

strong, long 

grow in tight groups that 

Leaves have 3 oval, 

white/pink fl 

resemble flat umbrellas. 

toothed leaflets usually 

Town black fruits. 

Wild flower species 

Leaves are feathery. 

Wild flower 

with Daisy 

a whitish band. Yarrow 

spiny, prickl 

Bellis perennis 

Achillea m 

spotter Wild flower sheet 

spotter Familiar sheet 

white/pink Pretty little 

spotter flowers with yellow 

white but so 

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sheet 

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centres. Thrives in areas grow in tigh 

of grass that are regularly resemble fla 

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mown or trampled. 

Leaves are fe 

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life and colour when Spring begins. 

According to Marian Spain, Chief Executive 

Feverfew 

Creeping buttercup 

Oxford ragwort 

Silverwee 

Daisy 

of Plantlife there’s a disconnect between 

Tanacetum Yarrow 

parthenium Ranunculus White clover 

repens 

Senecio Bramble 

squalidus 

Potentilla a 


children and wildflowers, and this is reflected 

Bushy Achillea herb millefolium 

with stronglyscented 

Pretty little feathery flowers, leaves usually creeping Small white stems flowers that root 

in tight 

A Trifolium low, spreading repens 

plant with 

Like Rubus ragwort fruticosus 

but with 

A perennial 

Familiar white/pink 

in the decision to drop plant names such as 

fewer, Easily larger recognisable flowers and with 

stolons (thin 

flowers with yellow 

and white heads but DAISY sometimes of daisy-like pink, at globe-shaped the WHITE nodes. CLOVER Leaflets clusters. are 

deeply strong, FEVERFEW 

divided long tangled leaves. stems, 

stems). A m 

Bluebell from the latest edition centres. of the Thrives Oxford in areas 

flowers. grow in Bellis Often tight perennis groups grows that broad Leaves and Trifolium have often 3 repens oval, marked 

Spreads white/pink Tanacetum along flowers parthenium 

railways or deep 

rose family, 

Junior Dictionary. Common Daisy of grass that poppy are regularly Opium Yarrow 

on Daisy resemble Common Familiar walls, white/pink poppy 

pavements flat poppy umbrellas. flowers with Herb with White Yarrow toothed Opium Small whiteor robert 

clover leaflets poppy brown. 

flowers usually in tight 

and Bramble Feverfew White Rosebay black Herb Bushy is especially fruits. clover 

herb robert Stems with willowherb 

strongly- 

common can be Creeping 

leaves Bramble Roseb 

and 5 

Bellis mown perennis or trampled. Achillea and Bellis Leaves 

yellow waste perennis centres. 

are millefolium 

ground. feathery. 

Thrives in areas Trifolium Achillea with 

globe-shaped 

a whitish millefolium 

repens clusters. 

band. 

Leaves 

around Rubus Trifolium spiny, scented prickly feathery leaves and 

Despite this strange move to remove plants 

Tanacetum stations. fruticosus repens or hairy. 

parthenium Ranunculu 

yellow Rubus flowe 

Common Papaver rhoeas poppy Opium Papaver poppy somniferum 

rhoeas Herb Geranium Papaver robert somniferum 

robertianum Rosebay Chamerion Geranium willowherb 

angustifolium 

robertianum Chameri frut 

Familiar white/pink Pretty Familiar of grass little that white/pink are flowers, regularly usually mown. Small Pretty have white little 3 oval, flowers, toothed leaflets. in usually tight Easily Small heads white recognisable of daisy-like flowers flowers. with in tight Easily recog 

from the Junior Dictionary, Papaver Annual with a recent rhoeas striking 

with poll yellow Papaver Annual with 

white flowers but somniferum 

with large, striking bluewith 

sometimes yellow pink, Geranium Pink Annual flowers with 

globe-shaped white but robertianum 

2cm large, across. bluesometimes 

clusters. pink, Chamerion Bushy A Pink large herb flowers plant 

strong, globe-shaped long 

angustifolium 

with up 2cm stronglyscented 

growing Hairy leaves feathery in clumps. tangled clusters. 

to 2m across. tall A low, A large spread p 

red flowers found where green red flowers leaves and found large where Hairy green leaves with and a large 

with leaves a Pink/ stems, strong, long 

suggests that people Annual 

creeping growing ste 

would soil centres. has actually with been Thrives striking like disturbed, to in areas Annual pink grow centres. 

soil or with 

has 

in lilac tight Thrives large, 

been flowers. groups bluedisturbed, 

in areas that Pink triangular Leaves grow 

pink 

flowers in 

or 

have tight 

lilac outline 2cm 3 groups 

flowers. 

oval, across. are that A white/pink and Leaves purple large 

heads 

plant 

triangular 

have flowers of flowers up 3 

outline daisy-like oval, are to 2m or followed deep tall 

at white/pink the nodesfl 

know more about the red 

are purple wildlife, so of flowers often grass plantlife seen found that on and are where waste regularly green Edible resemble of grass leaves 

so often poppy that flat and 

seen seeds are umbrellas. large 

on 

regularly 

waste 

Hairy sometimes toothed resemble 

Edible 

leaves 

poppy 

leaflets flat with reddish umbrellas. 

seeds 

a usually growing black flowers. toothed by leaflets usually black fruits. 


Leaves mown or are trampled. feathery. with Leaves a whitish are feathery. band. with 

sometimes fluffy fruits. in 

Often seeds. clumps. Stems 

a whitish 

reddish grows Also Pink/ can be broad and o 

soil band. 

by fluffy 

spiny, prickly or hairy. spiny, prick 

flowers that are around ground has been 

them. The and disturbed, 

great roadsides. pink 

thing come or lilac 

ground from flowers. 

and this roadsides. plant. triangular and come produce from 

outline a this strong, are 

plant. 

purple on known walls, flowers 

about wildflowers is that they grow everywhere, 

and and waste produce as pavements ‘Fireweed’ are followed 

ground. 

a strong, as it with whiteor 

so often seen on waste Edible poppy seeds Common sometimes 

known a 

unpleasant reddish poppy smell. Opium by colonises fluffy poppy seeds. 

unpleasant sites Also 

smell. after fire. Herb robe 

ground and roadsides. come from this plant. Papaver and Common produce rhoeas a poppy strong, Wild Papaver known Opium as somniferum 

‘Fireweed’ poppy as it 

colonise 

Geranium Herb robr 

from the cracks in the city pavements, to 

unpleasant smell. 

colonises sites after fire. 

Annual Papaver with rhoeas striking Annual Papaver with somniferum 

large, blue- Pink Geranium flowers 

church yards, fields and roadsides... life finds 

red Annual flowers with found striking 

spotter where green Annual leaves with 

sheet 

and large, large blue- Hairy Pink leaves flower 

a way (as they say in Jurassic Park). 

soil red has flowers been found disturbed, where pink green or lilac leaves flowers. and large triangular 

WELSH POPPY 

DANDELION 

SILVERWEED 

The best way to spot wild flowers is to get out 

soil has been disturbed, 

Meconopsis cambrica 

Taraxacum officinalis 

Potentilla anserina 

and about and keep your 

Feverfew 

eyes open, but 

Welsh Creeping 

Large, nodding poppy buttercup 

yellow flowers 

Dandelion Town 

Bright flowers above a rosette of 

Tomato species 

so Oxford often seen ragwort on waste 

pink Silverweed 

or lilac flowers. 

Hairy leave ou 

so often seen on waste Edible poppy seeds 

sometimes triangular ro 

ground roadsides. come Edible from poppy this seeds plant. and 

A member of the rose family, 

Scarlet sometimes produce 

p 

Plantlife has come up with 

Tanacetum 

The Great British 

parthenium 

Meconopsis Ranunculus with 4 petals. cambrica 

often repens ground 

found on 

Taraxacum Senecio and 

jaggedly toothed squalidus roadsides. 

officinalis come 

leaves, followed 

Lycopersicon Potentilla from this 

with red stems, anserina 

esculentum 

plant. unpleasant 

silvery leaves 

Anagallis and produc 

as 

Wildflower Hunt which not 

Bushy 

only seeks 

herb with 

to help 

strongly- 

Large, A low, walls, spreading nodding pavements yellow and plant banks. with 

Bright Like by ragwort fluffy flowers white but above seed with heads. 

a 

A semi-tropical perennial and yellow plant flowers. 

annual with red 

The unpleasant 

5-petall 

scented feathery leaves 

flowers creeping with stems 4 petals. that root 

A 

rosette fewer, larger of jaggedly flowers toothed and 

with stolons 5 or (thin 6 petalled spreading 

this low grow 

people engage with their environment and heads of and daisy-like learn 

native the nodes. flower grown Leaflets in are 

leaves, deeply followed divided leaves. 

by fluffy 

flowers stems). in A clusters member on of the 

around 8am 

more about the plantlife around Feverfew 

flowers. them, Often but grows also Creeping gardens Feverfew 

broad and and often buttercup 

often marked 

found Oxford Creeping white Spreads seeds along ragwort 

heads buttercup 

railways 

you Silverweed 

hairy Oxford rose family, stems. ragwort it Grows has silvery 

from 

2pm, Silverwee 

or in d 

to survey the state of the Red Tanacetum nation’s walls, dead-nettle 

wild pavements flowers. parthenium Snapdragon 

Ranunculus Tanacetum with walls, whiteor pavements brown. parthenium 

repens Senecio Ranunculus can puff away squalidus repens 

to tell Potentilla discarded Senecio Welsh poppy squalidus 

fruit anserina 

and 

Potentilla Dandelioa 

You can spot all sorts of wild 

Bushy 

and waste 

flowers 

herb 

ground. 

on 

with 

a 

stronglyscented 

A and Red 

Bushy low, shaded dead-nettle Butterfly-bush 

and 

spreading herb with banks. 

plant stronglyscented 

feathery stems that leaves root 

with Like A the Snapdragon 

is especially common leaves Purple 

low, hour 

ragwort spreading of the 

but day. 

with plant with A around Butterfly-bush 

and toadflax 5-petalled 

around stations. 

Like Meconopsis perennial ragwort sewerage 

plant but cambrica 

works. Purple 

yellow flowers. 

with red A Taraxacum perennial 

Red Lamium dead-nettle purpureum 

feathery leaves 

Snapdragon 

Antirrhinum Lamium purpureum majus 

creeping 

Butterfly-bush 

Buddleja Antirrhinum davidii majus 

fewer, creeping larger stems flowers that and root 

Purple Linaria Buddleja 

stolons fewer, larger (thin 

toadflax purpurea davidii 

Linaria 

flowers spreading and stolons (thin 

simple walk around the country and heads or city of with 

Large, nodding yellow Bright flowe 

Lamium Dead-nettle’s purpureum pink-purple 

daisy-like Antirrhinum A 

at and Dead-nettle’s common 

the heads nodes. 

garden 

of majus Leaflets daisy-like pink-purple flower 

are Buddleja A 

deeply at A large 

the common nodes. 

bush 

divided davidii with garden Leaflets 

long 

leaves. flower are Linaria Has 

stems). deeply A large tufts 

flowers divided purpurea A with member bush of narrow 

4 petals. leaves. with bluishgreen 

of long the A stems). Has tufts 

rosette of A mja 

the family – and using flowers a spotter’s flowers. 

cluster 

Often guide amongst 

grows from seen 

broad flowers. in 

and 

a cluster wide 

Often often 

variety 

grows amongst marked 

spikes 

Spreads broad seen and 

of in scented 

along a often wide railways variety marked 

purple 

rose Spreads spikes leaves 

native family, flower along of scented and long 

Dead-nettle’s it grown has railways silvery purple 

in rose green 

leaves, family, lea 

hairy, follo 

The Great British Wildflower on walls, 

heart-shaped pink-purple 

Hunt website, pavements 

leaves A of common 

with on hairy, bright 

walls, whiteor heart-shaped colours, garden flower 

pavements brown. 

often A 

leaves flowers, large bush 

and with of bright is whiteor 

very with 

especially colours, brown. 

attractive long Has 

common often spikes tufts 

leaves and flowers, crowded of narrow 

gardens is especially and very 

and 5-petalled attractive with bluishgreen 

tiny 

flowers often common found leaves spikes 

white seeds and cr 5 

towards cluster 

you’ll know what you’re seeing and waste the top amongst 

and find ground. of the seen found in a 

out 

and towards 

COMMON waste on wide pavements variety 

the ground. top of the and spikes to 

POPPY around found butterflies. of scented 

RED stations. 

pavements Common purple 

and 

DEAD-NETTLE yellow around 

purple leaves 

to butterflies. 

on walls, SNAPDRAGON 

flowers. stations. 

flowers. and Often long 

hairy, 

Common 

pavements yellow purple 

can puff flowe 

plant heart-shaped and can bloom leaves from of walls. bright aw 

plant Squeeze colours, 

and can the often 

bloom flowers flowers, 

from on walls. wasteground, very attractive spikes 

Squeeze the flowers grows crowded 

fascinating facts too. When you’ve found some 

Papaver somniferum 

Lamium purpureum and shaded 

wasteground, 

on walls, with pavements tiny 

towards Antirrhinium banks. majus the 

grows 

hour of 

on 

February the to top November. of the found to February open on pavements their to mouths. and Red to 

November. walls butterflies. 

to 

dead-nettle 

open and their railways. Common Snapdragon 

purple 

mouths. and walls wasteground. 

flowers. Often Butterfly 

plant and can bloom from walls. Annual with striking red flowers, Pink-purple flowers amongst A variety of colours, often found 

flowers, you can submit your findings to the Common Squeeze the poppy flowers Lamium on Red wasteground, Opium dead-nettle 

purpureum poppy Antirrhinum grows Snapdragon Herb and 

walls, 

railways. 

majus robert pavements 

and was 

Buddleja Butterfly Ro da 

February to November. to open found their where mouths. soil has been walls hairy, and heart-shaped railways. leaves and on wasteground. 

pavements. Squeeze the 

site, which will help more people to find them Papaver rhoeas 

Papaver somniferum 

disturbed, eg. waste ground. 

Dead-nettle’s Lamium 

towards 

purpureum 

the 

pink-purple 

top of the plant. 

A Antirrhinum common 

flowers 

Geranium 

to 

garden 

open 

majus 

their 

flower robertianum 

mouths. 

A Buddleja large bush Chd 

and to support wildlife and plantlife around 

Annual with striking flowers Dead-nettle’s Annual cluster with amongst pink-purple large, blue- seen A common in Pink a wide flowers garden variety flower 2cm across. spikes A large of bus sce A la 

the country. 

red flowers found where hairy, flowers green heart-shaped cluster leaves amongst and leaves large of seen bright in Hairy a colours, wide leaves variety often 

with a 

flowers, spikes of very 

gro sc 

For more information and 

Welsh 

to join 

poppy soil 

the hunt, 

Dandelion has been disturbed, 

towards hairy, 

Tomato pink heart-shaped the 

or 

top 

lilac 

of 

flowers. 

the leaves found of bright on pavements 

Scarlet triangular colours, 

pimpernel outline often and to 

are flowers, butterflies 

pur ver 

plant 

go to: www.plantlife.org.uk/wildflowerhunt/ 

Meconopsis cambrica 

so 

Taraxacum 

often seen 

officinalis 

on waste towards and 

Lycopersicon 

Edible the can 

poppy top bloom of 

esculentum 

seeds the from walls. found Squeeze 

Anagallis sometimes on pavements the flowers 

arvensis reddish and on to wastegrou butterflie 

February by 

ground and roadsides. plant come and to can November. 

from bloom this plant. from to walls. open 

and 

Squeeze their mouths. 

produce 

the flowers walls 

a strong, 

on wastegro and rai 

kno 

Large, nodding yellow Bright flowers above a February A semi-tropical to November. annual to The open 5-petalled their mouths. flowers of walls and ra 

flowers with 4 petals. A rosette of jaggedly toothed with 5 or 6 petalled 

this low 

unpleasant 

growing plant 

smell. 

open 

col 

native flower grown in leaves, followed by fluffy flowers in clusters on around 8am and close at 

Welsh gardens poppy and often found Dandelion Welsh white seeds poppy heads you Tomato Dandelion 

hairy stems. Grows from Scarlet Tomato 2pm, or in pimpernel 

dull weather. Scarlet p 

Meconopsis walls, pavements cambrica Taraxacum Meconopsis can puff away officinalis cambrica to tell Lycopersicon Taraxacum discarded fruit officinalis esculentum 

and Anagallis Lycopersicon arvensis esculentum Anagallis a 

Large, 

and shaded 

nodding 

banks. IVY-LEAVED 

yellow Bright Large, 

the hour 

flowers nodding 

of the TOADFLAX 

above yellow 

day. 

a A Bright 

around WILD 

semi-tropical flowers 

sewerage TEASEL 

above annual 

works. SPANISH BLUEBELL 

Ivy-leaved toadflax Green Cymbalaria muralis 

Dipsacus fullonuma 

The A semi-tropical Hyacinthoides 5-petalled flowers hispanica annual of The 5-petall 

flowers with 4 petals. A rosette flowers 

Ivy-leaved alkanet 

Little blue/purple of with jaggedly 4 petals. 

toadflax Wild 

flowers toothed A and with rosette 

Green teasel 

Up 5 to or 2m of 6 

alkanet Spanish 

tall jaggedly petalled with distinctive toothed this with 

Wild 

low 5 Erect or growing 

teasel bluebell 

6 spikes petalled of plant wide, open this 

Spanis 

low gro 

Ivy-leaved Cymbalaria native flower toadflax 

muralis grown in Green Pentaglottis 

leaves, native Cymbalaria reddish alkanet flower followed stems grown muralis and by leaves, fluffy in Wild Dipsacus flowers leaves, Pentaglottis 

egg-shaped teasel followed in clusters fullonum 

flower by heads fluffy with Spanish around flowers Hyacinthoides 

bell-shaped, Dipsacus 8am clusters bluebell pale and fullonum 

close hispanica 

flowers at around Hyacint 8am 

Little gardens blue/purple and often found sempervirens 

Cymbalaria muralis Pentaglottis white gardens Little often seeds blue/purple and found heads often on walls. you found Dipsacus Up hairy white sempervirens 

purple to 2m stems. seeds flowers fullonum tall heads Grows and with long you from spines. Hyacinthoides 2pm, hairy Erect Up to or stems. spikes with 2m dull blue tall Grows of pollen. weather. wide, hispanica with from 2pm, Erect or in spi d 

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Little 

bell-shap 

stems and blue/purple 

sempervirens 

shaded and leaves, banks. 1m the and stems with hour shaded and rough of the leaves, banks. 

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