Wildflowers Encyclopedia

Glaucium flavum (Yellow Horned Poppy)

Glaucium flavum is a biennial or short-lived perennial of the Papaveraceae family, native to shingle beaches and coastal cliffs of Europe, the Mediterranean, and western Asia. Plants form handsome blue-grey...

Glaucium flavum (Yellow Horned Poppy)

Glaucium flavum is a biennial or short-lived perennial of the Papaveraceae family, native to shingle beaches and coastal cliffs of Europe, the Mediterranean, and western Asia. Plants form handsome blue-grey...

Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove)

Digitalis purpurea is a stately biennial or short-lived perennial of European hedgerows and woodland margins, producing 50-80 tubular flowers per spike in shades of purple, pink, and white during June-July....

Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove)

Digitalis purpurea is a stately biennial or short-lived perennial of European hedgerows and woodland margins, producing 50-80 tubular flowers per spike in shades of purple, pink, and white during June-July....

Hypericum perforatum (St John's Wort)

Hypericum perforatum is a rhizomatous perennial native to Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa, producing golden-yellow flowers 2-3 cm across with distinctive black glandular dots along petal margins that bleed...

Hypericum perforatum (St John's Wort)

Hypericum perforatum is a rhizomatous perennial native to Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa, producing golden-yellow flowers 2-3 cm across with distinctive black glandular dots along petal margins that bleed...

Baileya multiradiata (Desert Marigold)

Baileya multiradiata is a short-lived perennial of the Asteraceae family, native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Plants form woolly grey-green mounds...

Baileya multiradiata (Desert Marigold)

Baileya multiradiata is a short-lived perennial of the Asteraceae family, native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Plants form woolly grey-green mounds...

Leucanthemum maximum (Shasta Daisy)

Leucanthemum maximum is a robust perennial daisy from the Pyrenees, growing 60-90 cm tall with flower heads 7-12 cm across, widely cultivated and naturalised in meadows and roadsides across temperate...

Leucanthemum maximum (Shasta Daisy)

Leucanthemum maximum is a robust perennial daisy from the Pyrenees, growing 60-90 cm tall with flower heads 7-12 cm across, widely cultivated and naturalised in meadows and roadsides across temperate...

Amsonia tomentosa (Woolly Bluestar)

Amsonia tomentosa is a compact desert subshrub of the dogbane family, forming dense mounds 30-60 cm tall with silvery-grey woolly foliage and terminal clusters of pale steel-blue star-shaped flowers 12-18...

Amsonia tomentosa (Woolly Bluestar)

Amsonia tomentosa is a compact desert subshrub of the dogbane family, forming dense mounds 30-60 cm tall with silvery-grey woolly foliage and terminal clusters of pale steel-blue star-shaped flowers 12-18...