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Water avens
Marsh marigold
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Flowering time: May – September
Size: up to 50 cm
Description: Water avens has drooping, bell-shaped, peach and
red-purple flowers and likes to grow in damp places. The flowers
are followed by feathery seed heads.
Flowering time: March – July
Size: 20 – 60 cm
Description: Marsh marigold, or Kingcup, likes to grow in wet
meadows. It has large heart- or kidney-shaped leaves and bright
yellow flowers like big buttercups.
Great burnet
Rough hawkbit
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Flowering time: June – September
Size: up to 120 cm
Description: Great burnet has tightly packed, dark crimson,
oblong flower heads on tall stems. It has toothed leaflets which
are arranged in pairs. Its old Yorkshire name is "Red-heads" and
although it might not look like it, it is a member of the rose
family.
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Flowering time: June – September
Size: 10 – 40 cm
Description: Hawkbits have yellow flowers and are like small
dandelions but have tough, wiry stems and leaves. The rough
hawkbit has a densely hairy stem and rough, bristly leaves.
Yellow rattle
Meadow vetchling
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Flowering time: May – August
Size: up to 50 cm
Description: Yellow rattle has distinctive yellow, hooded flowers
and pointed, toothed leaves. When the disc-shaped seeds are
ripe, they rattle in the seed pods – hence the name of the flower.
The flowers feed off the nutrients in the roots of nearby grasses.
Flowering time: July – August
Size: 30 – 120 cm long
Description: Meadow vetchling has yellow flowers and thin,
pointed leaflets. The stems end in tendrils which help it to wrap
around other flowers for support. Its seed pods are black when
the seeds are ripe.