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 the dazzling bluebells that cover ancient woodland in the spring to the bright meadows bursting with buttercups in the summer, wild flowers are what make our woods so beautiful. Find out what flowers you might see on a woodland walk and how to identify them with pictures.
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