Birds Foot Trefoil.

Grows between 15 to 30cm with yellow pea like flowers.

Rich in nectar, and distinctive 'bird's foot' seed pods.

Food plant of the Common Blue, Clouded Yellow, Wood White, Green Hairstreak, Silver Studded Blue and Dingy Skipper butterflies.

Together with the Six spot Burnet, Chalk Carpet and Straw Belle moths.

Bluebell.

Grows 45 to 60cm tall.

The bluebell is a perennial bulb of woodland.

Produces Blue flowers in April and May in the Clawford woods.

Now a protected species.

Creeping Buttercup.

A very variable perennial with long, creeping and rooting runners.

The leaves are triangular in outline with three deeply toothed segments, the middle one of which is stalked. It differs from the Meadow Buttercup by having a hairy stem. Grows on grassy habitats, including woodland rides and clearings, especially on wet, heavy calcareous or slightly acid clay soils.

Bugle.

Grows 10 to 15cm tall. Likes shady places and moist soil that stays moist in woods or grassland.

A Low growing, short creeping perennial, produces purple flowers.

The stems are hairy on both sides, the leaves oblong, scarcely toothed, hairless often bronzy.

Flowers are powder blue rarely pink or white, in leafy often purple spike.

Common Mallow.

Upright or spreading perennial of grassy verges and disturbed ground.

Leaves are rounded at base but 5-lobed on stem.

Purple-veined pink flowers, 25 to 40mm across, appear June to October.

Widespread and common in S Britain but scarce elsewhere.

Height up to 1.5m.

Common Vetch.

Erect, trailing or scrambling annual 15 to 40cm tall, but stems can be up to 1.5metres long.

Variable pink purple flowers June onwards.

Creeping Jenny.

Grows 10cm tall, but often creeping stems reach 60cm long.

The bright yellow flowers appear in early April .

Usually found in wet woods or other damp shady places.

Crow Garlic.

A bulbous perennial to 45cm tall.

Produces Pink, greenish white flowers producing bulbuls April to July.

A native of dry grassy places often on chalk or limestone.

Cow Parsley.

A biennial/perennial plant of woodland edges and verges.

Grows to 1.5 metre tall.

White umbels of flowers from late May hence the name "Mayweed".

A rich nectar source for hoverflies and honeybees.

Cuckoo Flower.

Known also as Lady's Smock.

A hardy perennial which attracts butterflies, Small White and Orange tips.

The appearance of this lovely flower timed with the return of the Cuckoo, one finally knows that spring has finally arrived.

Habitat damp meadows, lake and stream edges.

Grows to 12 to 20" tall.

With its sprays of delicate flowers varying from near white to lilac.

Can be seen from mid April on most lakes around Clawford especially in the wetlands area.

Daisy.

The well known daisy of lawns with small white flowers.

Flowers in Spring and throughout the summer.

The food plant of the Red Carpet Moth.

Dandelion.

Deeply toothed leaves form a flat rosette at the base of the plant, from which several flowering stems emerge 5 to 30cm tall.

Appears April to May.

Found in abundance in grassland and on banks and waste ground.

Devil's Bit Scabous.

Perennial of damp grassland and marshes. Widespread & common.

Basal leaves are spoon-shaped; those on stem are narrow.

Blue-purple flowers, 15-25mm across, are produced between June to October.

Height up to 75 cm. A rich nectar source.

Food plant of the Marsh Fritillary Butterfly & the Narrow Bordered Bee Hawk Moth.

Dog Rose.

Dog Violet.

Grows 10 to 15cm tall with purple flowers.

Flowers between April and June.

Food plant of the Silver Washed Fritillary, High Brown Fritillary, Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary, Pearl Bordered Fritillary and Dark Green Fritillary butterflies.

Field Forget-me-not.

Field Scabious.

Grows 30 to 60cm tall with pale blue flowers.

Flowers from July to September.

A good butterfly nectar plant.

The food plant of the Marsh Fritillary Butterfly and the Narrow Bordered Bee Hawk Moth.

Flag Iris.

The stately Iris of water sites grows to be between 40 & 200cm tall.

Unlike many of our garden Irises, the Yellow Flag Iris needs its roots in water but needs full sun. Flowers from June.

Food plant of the Water Ermine, Red Sword Grass, Crescent and Webb's Wainscot moths.

 Foxglove.

Grows between 100 and 200cm high with spires of purple red flowers.

Flowers between June and August.

Food plant of the Frosted Orange, Heath Fritillary butterflies, as well as the Lesser Yellow Under-wing and Foxglove Pug Moth.

Hare Bell.

Grows 15 to 30cm tall with dainty blue flowers.

Flowers during August and September.

Found throughout Britain from damp peat to dry chalk.

Food plant of Northern Rustic and Ashworth's Rustic Moths.

Herb Robert.

Common and widespread.  Grows 10 to 50 cm. tall.

Hairy leaves deeply cut into three or five lobes.

Produces loose clusters of pink flowers.

Flowers between April to October with each flower 12 to 15mm across.

Straggling, hairy annual of shady hedgerows, rocky banks and woodlands.

Horseshoe Vetch.

Decumbent, herbaceous perennial forming a semi-shrub in dry, open places on alkaline soil.

Produces bright yellow flowers, followed by the horseshoe shaped fruits.

Food plant of blue butterflies.

Kidney Vetch.

Grows 15 to 30cm tall.

Produces long stems of woolly yellow flowers often tinged red.

A rich source of nectar and main food plant of Small Blue Butterfly and Six Belted Clearwing Moth.

Marsh Mallow.

Grows 40 to 80cm tall.

Produces pink/mauve flowers.

Flowers in August and September.

A good feature plant for moist soil the origin of Marsh mallow sweets.