Identify wildflowers on the go
Discover wildflowers when you're out and about with your mini pocket guide to the UK's common woodland plants.
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Content manager, botanist and tree lover
Spring and summer is the time when wildflowers burst into bloom. Primroses and foxgloves brighten up hedges and banks, while bluebells and ramsons illuminate the woods.
Are you a wildflower wizard or a beginner in botany?
Most people can recognise a bluebell, but how many other wildflowers do you know? Take our quiz and find out if you can name these 10 common wildflowers.
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Woodland wildflowers
From dazzling bluebells to weird and wonderful orchids, find out which wild flowers you might see on a woodland walk and how to identify them.
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