Woodland Flowers

Many visitors to our website have shown a great interest in our flower pages, so we have extended this section to include nearly 100 flowers, which you may find in woodlands. Each has a small picture, scientific name, botanic family and habitat. Only the flowers marked with an asterisk* have so far a brief article or further notes attached (including medicinal and other uses). I hope to add further notes and species when time allows.
Any contributions in knowledge, photography or artwork to enhance this web-resource are most welcome.

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Main Sources:

  • Grieve, Mrs. M. (Edited and Introduced by Mrs. C.F. Leyel) - "A Modern Herbal", Penguin, 1984. (Main source for articles, as this is probably the best British herbal ever written, first published in 1931! )
    I am hugely indebted to Mrs. Grieve and her editor Hilda Leyel, because this huge book is a treasure-trove, which gives lots of well-informed data and commentary, which would be difficult or impossible to gather within one life-time - this is a well-considered opinion, since I have received professional training for many years as a medical herbalist - Anna)

  • Morris, Pat (Consultant Editor) - The Country Life Book of the Natural History of the British Isles", Country Life Books/Hamlyn, 1988.

  • "The Illustrated Book of Nature, a seasonal guide to the habitats of the British Isles", Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1986

  • Marjory Blamey & Christopher Grey-Wilson "The iIllustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe", Hodder & Stoughton, 1989.

  • Fitter, Alasdair "Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe", general editor David Attenborough, Collins New Generation Guide, 1987. 

  • B. E. Nicholson, S. Ary & M. Gregory "The Oxford Book of Wild Flowers, Pocket edition", Oxford University Press, 1973.

  • Mabey, Richard  "Flora Britannica", Chatto & Windus, London, 1998.

  • Mabey, Richard - "Food for free", Harper Collins, 1992.
  • Gabrielle Hatfield "Memory, Wisdom and Healing, the history of Domestic Plant Medicine", Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1999.

  • Vaclav Vetvicka & Daniela Tousova "The Hamlyn Colour Guide to Wildflowers of field and woodland", Hamlyn 1979.

  • "The Ever-changing Woodlands, the living Countryside", Reader's Digest, 1990.

  • Michael Chinery "Exploring the Countryside", W. H. Smith, 1987.

   

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