Ivydene Gardens Peony to Pink Wild Flower Families Gallery:
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Pink Family:- "Non-woody plants with stems characteristically swollen at their junctions with the opposite pairs of usually untoothed and unstalked leaves. Flowering shoots repeatedly forked, with a flower in the centre of each fork. Flowers with 4-5 separate petals, or none, and 4-5 sepals which are often joined at the base, sometimes forming a tube or a more or less inflated bladder. Fruits dry, many-seeded." from Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R. Fitter assisted by Francis Rose - ISBN 0 00 219363 9 - Eleventh Impression 1978. Pink Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Peony to Pink Wild Flower Families Gallery:- |
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Common Name |
Botanical Name |
Flowering Months |
Habitat |
Lesser Alpine Pearlwort |
Sagina intermedia |
Mountains (on mountains in the Central Highlands of Scotland) |
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Lesser Chickweed |
Stellaria pallida |
An annual growing in open conditions on light, well-drained soils. Near the coast it is found on sand dunes, shingle and in other sandy or stony places; elsewhere it occurs on waste and cultivated ground, in gravel- and sand-pits and on tracks in conifer plantations. It is sometimes also found in lawns and on walls. Lowland. |
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Lesser Sea Spurry (Same as Sea Spurry with its photos below) |
Spergularia marina |
An annual of saltmarshes, sea-walls, muddy shingle, brackish grazing pastures and the base of coastal cliffs. Inland, it is a local colonist of the margins of saline sludge lagoons, and also occurs beside salt-treated roads. Generally lowland, but reaching 520 m on a roadside at Holme Moss (Cheshire). |
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Stellaria graminea |
A perennial herb of damp or free-draining, neutral and acidic soils. Habitats include woodland clearings, neglected pastures, hay meadows, grass-heaths, hedge banks and waysides. It is tolerant of some nutrient enrichment, and is often a constituent of neglected pasture. 0-740 m (Knock Fell, Westmorland). |
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Flower from Bedgebury on 6 June |
Flowers |
Foliage |
Form |
Cerastium semidecandrum |
This annual or overwintering herb of well-drained, sandy or calcareous soils is found on dry banks and open, grassy places, on heathy ground, fixed dunes, disturbed sandy areas near the sea and walls. It also grows on rock ledges and bare places on limestone, and occasionally grows in heavier clay soils. 0-485 m (Isla, E. Perth). |
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Flower from Borough Green on 9 May |
Flowers from Borough Green on 9 May |
Foliage from Borough Green on 9 May |
Form from Borough Green on 9 May |
Dianthus deltoides |
A perennial herb of dry, usually base-rich, soils overlying chalk and limestone, mica-schist or basalt; sometimes on metal-rich mining spoil or sandy soils and dunes. It can occur in short, closed grassland, but prefers an open sward broken by bare rock or soil. It also occurs as a garden escape. 0-355 m (Parsley Hay, Derbys.). |
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Flower on 17 July |
Flowers on 17 July |
Foliage on 17 July |
Form on 17 July |
Stellaria palustris |
This perennial, rhizomatous herb is a species of damp and wet places, including pastures, grassy fens and marshes, especially in areas with standing water in winter. It is also able to colonise artificial habitats such as old peat diggings. Generally lowland, but reaching 360 m on Cronkley Fell (N.W. Yorks.). |
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Silene acaulis |
This cushion- or mat-forming perennial herb is confined to base-rich substrates. It is characteristic of a species-rich dwarf-herb ledge community on Scottish mountains. However, it also grows in sparse vegetation on exposed mountain plateaux, serpentine fell-fields, cliff-slopes and stabilised sand dunes. From sea level in W. and N. Scotland to 1305 m on Ben Macdui (S. Aberdeen). |
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Flower in May |
Flowers |
Foliage in May |
Form in May |
Sagina procumbens |
Natural habitats of this mat-forming perennial include rocks, cliffs and river-banks, but it also grows in a wide variety of artificial, disturbed and fertile habitats, including spoil heaps, mining waste, paths, roadside verges and urban pavements. It is a common weed of horticulture, especially in lawns, and is a particular nuisance in pots. The plant is tolerant of a wide range of soils and can stand heavy trampling. 0-1150 m (E. Scottish Highlands). |
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Flower from Borough Green on 24 May |
Flowers from Borough Green on 24 May |
Foliage from Borough Green on 24 May |
Form in September |
Night-Scented Catchfly |
Melandrium noctiflorum |
This spring-germinating annual occurs mainly on cultivated land, but sometimes also on open waste ground. It is mostly found on dry, sandy and calcareous substrates, but also on heavier soils over oolitic limestone. |
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Silene nutans |
The coastal habitats of this long-lived perennial herb are grassy cliffs, sand dunes and shingle. Inland, it grows on limestone rock outcrops and cliff ledges. S. nutans is mainly a plant of shallow, drought-prone, calcareous soils on chalk and limestone, but it also occurs on acidic soil overlying shingle. It has occurred as a casual at ports and on railway banks. Reproduction is usually by seed, but can be vegetative by procumbent stems rooting at the nodes. Lowland. |
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Flower in June |
Flowers in June |
Foliage in June |
Form in June |
Perennial Knawel |
Scleranthus perennis |
Fields and Rocks (of sandy fields in the Breckland, and one dry rocky hill in Radnorshire) |
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Procumbent Pearlwort (Same as Knotted Pearlwort on Page 1) |
Sagina nodosa |
It is a plant of damp habitats, principally in mires and springs irrigated with base-rich water, but also in open, calcareous, sandy habitats, especially dunes and dune-slacks and sometimes in drier calcareous grassland. Generally lowland, but reaching 850 m on Glas Moel (Angus). |
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Lychnis flos-cuculi |
Marshes and Woods (in marshes, fens and wet woods) |
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Flower |
Flowers in June |
Flower from Swansea Airport Bog on 10 July |
Form in June |
Melandrium dioicum |
Woods, Hedges, Cliffs and Mountains (in woods and hedge-banks, also on sea-cliffs and mountains) |
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Flower from Cadgwith in Cornwall on 27 May |
Flowers from Cadgwith on 27 May |
Foliage from Cadywith on 26 May |
Form from Dorset in May |
Viscaria vulgaris |
Rocks (rocky places in Wales and Scotland) |
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Flower in June |
Flowers in June |
Foliage in May |
Form in May |
Red Sandwort |
Minuartia rubella |
This cushion-forming montane perennial herb is always associated with strongly base-rich rocks, including limestone and soft calcareous schists. The vegetation is usually open, as the ground on which it usually grows is both easily eroded and subjected to frost-heave. It reaches an altitude of 1180 m on Ben Lawers (Mid Perth), and formerly descended to 120 m on Unst (Shetland). |
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Herniaria ciliolata |
Grassland (in sandy turf by the sea in the Channel Islands) |
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Flower from Kynance Cove in Cornwall on 25 May |
Flower from Kynance Cove on 25 May |
Foliage from Kynance Cove on 25 May |
Form from Cadgwith in Cornwall on 27 May |
Silene conica |
An annual of open habitats on free-draining sandy soils. In coastal regions, it is found on stabilised dunes and sandy shingle, in open pastures and on waste ground; inland it also occurs at the edges of tracks across heathland, in abandoned arable fields and on commons. It flowers freely, but good seed production occurs only in hot summers. Lowland. |
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Flower from Sandwich in Kent on 20 June |
Flowers |
Foliage |
Form |
Spergularia rubra |
An annual or biennial herb, typically occurring in open habitats on free-draining acidic sands and gravels. Habitats include heaths, commons, tracks (particularly forestry tracks in W. Scotland), quarries, gravel- and sand-pits, railway yards and waste ground. It occasionally grows on stabilised shingle and sand dunes. It is tolerant of trampling. Generally lowland, but recorded at over 560 m on Deadwater Fell (S. Northumb.). |
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Flower in June |
Flowers in June |
Foliage from East Kent in July |
Form from The New Forest on 22 July |
Silene maritima |
Cliffs, Shingle and Mountains (on cliffs and shingle by the sea; inland on mountains) |
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Flower on 28 April |
Flowers with midges on 3 July |
Foliage from Poulsallagh in County Clare on 19 June |
Form from Poulsallagh on 19 June |
Sea Mouse-ear (Same as Dark Green Mouse-ear on Page 1) |
Cerastium diffusum |
Bare Ground, Dunes and dune slacks (Dry places, especially near sea) |
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Sagina maritima |
An annual of maritime rock crevices, cliff-tops, stabilised shingle, dune-slacks and disturbed areas in upper saltmarsh on sandy substrates; also on walls and tracks, in pavements and on sandy roadsides near the sea. |
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Flower on 25 May |
Seeds from Kynance Cove in Cornwall on 25 May |
Foliage from Chesil Beach in Dorset in May |
Form from Chesil Beach in May |
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(Same as Lesser Sea-Spurrey above) |
Spergularia marina |
An annual of saltmarshes, sea-walls, muddy shingle, brackish grazing pastures and the base of coastal cliffs. Inland, it is a local colonist of the margins of saline sludge lagoons, and also occurs beside salt-treated roads. Generally lowland, but reaching 520 m on a roadside at Holme Moss (Cheshire). |
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Flower from Salt Marsh on Isle of Sheppey in Kent in July |
Flower from Salt Marsh on Isle of Sheppey in July |
Foliage from Decoy Farm on 30 June |
Form from Decoy Farm on 30 June |
Honkenya peploides |
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Flower from Loe Bar in Cornwall on 24 May |
Flowers from Loe Bar on 24 May |
Foliage from Shellness |
Form from Loe Bar on 22 May |
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(Arctic Sandwort) (Same as Arctic Sandwort on Page 1) |
Arenaria norvegica subsp. norvegica |
June-August |
Rocks (in bare stony places not far from the sea) |
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Flower from Beinn nan Cnainhseag in Sutherland on 1 August |
Flowers from Beinn nan Cnainhseag on 1 August |
Foliage from Beinn nan Cnainhseag on 1 August |
Form from Beinn nan Cnainhseag on 1 August |
Silene anglica (Syn. Silene gallica) |
June onwards |
A winter-annual of cultivated and disturbed ground, mainly in arable fields on (often acidic) sandy or gravelly soils, and on old walls and waste ground. It also occurs in open, drought-prone coastal grassland on banks and cliffs, and on sand dunes in the Channel Islands. It is sensitive to low winter temperatures. Lowland. |
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Flower in July |
Flowers in July |
Foliage |
Form |
Arenaria leptoclados |
June -August |
Bare ground, Dunes and dune slacks, short turf (generally on lighter soils) |
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Flower |
Flowers from North Yorkshire in June |
Foliage |
Form from North Yorkshire in June |
Smooth Rupture-Wort |
Herniaria glabra |
An annual or short-lived perennial of compacted sandy or gravelly soils, often with chalk or limestone fragments. Its habitats are generally kept open by seasonal standing water or other disturbance, and include forestry rides, golf courses, car parks, disused gravel-pits and disturbed areas in short grassland. |
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Cerastium tomentosum |
A spreading, mat-forming perennial herb naturalised on roadsides, railway banks, waste ground, tips, dunes and coastal shingle. Lowland. |
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Flower in May |
Flowers in May |
Foliage from Cauldon Low in Staffordshire on 19 May |
Form from Cauldon Low on 19 May |
Saponaria officinalis |
This rhizomatous perennial herb is found in a wide range of man-made and marginal habitats, often near habitation, including hedge banks, quarries, roadsides, railway banks, tips and waste ground. It is thoroughly naturalised by streams and in damp woods, especially in S.W. England and N. Wales, where it has sometimes been considered native. |
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Flower in August |
Flowers in August |
Foliage in September |
Form in September |
Minuartia verna |
May onwards |
It is a perennial, basicolous, cushion-forming herb, characteristic of Carboniferous limestone districts where it is found in short grassland, on scars, on limestone pavement and scree. It also grows on base-rich volcanic rock in N. Wales and basalt in N. Ireland, on metal-rich soils, including those derived from serpentine, and on mining spoil. It prefers open sites with reduced competition, but may suffer from drought in very exposed conditions. Although seldom above 600 m, it has been recorded at 875 m on Snowdon (Caerns.). |
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Flower from Widdybank Fell in June |
Flower being pollinated by Fly at Teesdale on 29 May |
Foliage from Widdybank Fell in June |
Form from Widdybank Fell in June |
Starwort Mouse-Ear |
Cerastium cerastoides |
A straggling, mat-forming montane perennial herb that grows on wet acidic rocks, often in areas of late snow-lie. It is usually found above 750 m and reaches an altitude of 1220 m on Ben Macdui (S. Aberdeen), but occurs at 335 m near Mar Lodge (S. Aberdeen). |
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Cerastium glomeratum |
It grows in disturbed areas, often in places where there is some nutrient enrichment. It is fairly tolerant of trampling and is particularly common around farms, in gateways, on field edges, in bare patches in improved grassland, beside tracks and in waste places. It is also frequent on sand dunes and shingle. 0-610 m (Black`s Hope, Dumfriess.). |
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Flower Buds from Rochester in Kent in May |
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Foliage from Rochester in May |
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Strapwort |
Corrigiola littoralis |
This annual is now confined, as a native plant, to periodically inundated, open, muddy shingle around the margins of Slapton Ley (S. Devon). It formerly grew in a similar site at Loe Pool (W. Cornwall), and casual plants have been recorded elsewhere, from railway ballast and waste ground. |
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Teesdale Sandwort |
Minuartia stricta |
A loosely tufted but slender perennial herb that has only ever been known in Britain from Widdybank Fell, where it grows in open, gravelly flushes and eroding margins of sikes on metamorphic sugar limestone. The plant is not a strong competitor and is mainly associated with hummock-forming mosses and species such as Carex capillaris, Juncus triglumis, Minuartia verna and Primula farinosa. Upland, from 490 to 510 m on Widdybank Fell (Co. Durham). |
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Moehringia trinervia |
An annual of open, often moist, ground, generally found in woodland but also in shaded hedge banks, and rarely in unshaded places such as on walls and railway banks. It favours slightly acidic substrates, and there is a slight preference for warmer slopes in woodland, which hastens the successful completion of the plant`s life-cycle. 0-425 m (Mallowdale Fell, W. Lancs.). |
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Flower on 1 July |
Flowers in July |
Foliage from Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire in June |
Form |
Arenaria serpyllifolia |
A winter- or rarely summer-annual of dry, usually shallow, neutral to basic soils. It is found in a wide range of open habitats, including rock outcrops, cliffs, screes, walls, spoil heaps from mines and in quarries, railway ballast, waysides and arable field margins. Generally lowland, but reaching at least 610 m at Melmerby Fell (Cumberland). |
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Flower from Queensdown Warren in Kent on 1 June |
Flowers |
Foliage from Queensdown Warren on 1 June |
Form from North Yorkshire in June |
Water Chickweed |
Myosoton aquaticum |
July onwards |
Perennial herb usually grows in damp or wet habitats, including damp woods, Alnus and Salix carr, the banks of rivers, streams, canals and ditches, by ponds and in marshes and other wet places. |
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It is usually a short-lived perennial, but it may occasionally be annual or biennial. It occurs on arable land, in hedge banks and waste places, being most abundant on deep, well-drained soils. Mainly lowland, but reaching 425 m in Atholl (E. Perth). |
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Flower in July |
Flowers in June |
Foliage in June |
Form |
Wood Chickweed |
Stellaria nemorum |
This herbaceous, stoloniferous perennial prefers fertile soils and occurs mostly in damp, shaded habitats, and sometimes on periodically flooded ground. It is usually found by streamsides and ditches and in wet woods and damp hedge banks. Generally lowland, but reaching c. 915 m above Coire Kander (S. Aberdeen). |
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Yorkshire Sandwort |
Arenaria gothica |
Mountain rocks, bare ground (Confined to the limestone on and near Ingleborough). English Sandwort species action plan. |
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