Symphytum x uplandicum – May 26th 2025 – Russian Comfrey
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An extraordinary plant with an intriguing history in Britain
Geum rivale – May 19th 2025 – Water Avens
If plants had psychological characteristics, this species would be classed as an introvert.
Ornithogalum umbellatum May 12th 2025 – Star of Bethlehem
Known as a ‘biblical plant’ but the connection is tenuous.
Symphytum tuberosum – May 5th 2025 – Tuberous Comfrey
Tuberous Comfrey is a plant of lowland Scotland. Is it native or alien? Is it increasing?
Reseda luteola – April 28th 2025 – Weld
A source of yellow dye since neolithic times
Cardamine corymbosa – April 21st 2025 – New Zealand Bittercress
A tiny alien plant from New Zealand, increasing in Britain, Europe and North America.
Saxifraga oppositifolia – April 14th 2025
An early-flowering mountain plant with a circumpolar distribution.
Tuber sp. – April 7th 2025 – Truffles
Black gold or fool’s gold? Cultivation of this ascomycete fungus in South East England.
Myosotis sylvatica – March 31st 2025 – Wood Forget-me-not
“Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Lathraea clandestina – 24th March 2025 – Purple toothwort, Clandestine
It’s flowering time for this parasitic plant
