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| By no means common, Winter
Aconite flowers early but the flowers only open if the temperature
is over 10 degrees centigrade. A garden introduction, it has found
its way into some woods. Flowers January to March.. |
Like most woodland flowers,
Wood Anemone flowers early to enjoy the spring sunlight before
it is cut off by the opening leaves on the trees. The often unseen
back of the petals is sometimes blushed with pink. Flowers March and April. |
One of the most poisonous of British plants, Monks-hood
is found, rarely, in damp woods in south-west Britain. The deep hood
protects the nectaries. Flowers May to September. |
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| An annual of open woodland
and scrub, Common Cow-wheat is widely distributed throughout
Britain. In the sixteenth century the flour 'mightily provoketh venerie'.
Flowers May to September. |
An unhealthy pallid pink,
Toothwort is known in Yorkshire as 'corpse-flower'. It lives
entirely by parasitising hazel, elm and other roots and so has no
green chlorophyll like other plants. Flowers April and May. |
Chickweed Wintergreen is a delightful,
starry flower, rare in northern England but frequent in mossy Scottish
pinewoods and on moors. It is, however, neither a chickweed nor a
wintergreen! Flowers June and July. |