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Valerian Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Habitat Gallery:- |
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Common Name |
Botanical Name |
Flowering Months |
Habitat |
Broad-fruited Cornsalad |
Valerianella rimosa |
April-July |
An annual of arable land, generally found on fields margins which have escaped intensive management. It occurs on sand, calcareous clay and chalk soils, often as part of a species-rich annual community. Other habitats include quarry edges and spoil-tips. Seed may be relatively short-lived, and germination occurs in spring and autumn. Lowland. This species is Critically Endangered. |
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Common Valerian |
Valeriana officinalis |
A perennial herb found in a wide range of habitats. Subspecies sambucifolia occurs in damp grassland, marshes, fens, water margins and ditches, and wet woods throughout the country; subspecies collina in dry calcareous grasslands, hedge banks and woodland rides in South and Central Britain. Lowland to 805 m on Mt Brandon (South Kerry). |
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Form from Strood in Kent |
Cornsalad (European Cornsalad, Common Cornsalad) |
A winter-annual which occurs with other annuals on thin soils around rock outcrops and on scree, and on sand dunes and coastal shingle. It also grows in a wide range of disturbed habitats, including walls, gravel paths, railway tracks, in paving, gardens and, rarely, on arable land. Coastal populations are often the dwarf var. dunensis. The species is also commercially grown as a winter salad crop. 0-365 m (Wormhill, Derbys.). |
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Form from Rochester in Kent |
Giant Valerian |
Valeriana pyrenaica |
A perennial herb, naturalised in damp woods and shady hedge banks. Generally lowland, but reaching 305 m near Bridgend, Dufftown (Banffs.). |
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Italian Cornsalad |
Valerianella eriocarpa |
A winter-annual of drought-prone, stony substrates, found on cliff edges, calcareous banks, walls, quarries and other dry open habitats. It has been considered as native on bare and disturbed limestone and hard chalk in Dorset and the Isle of Wight (Wigginton, 1999). Some older records are from arable land, where it was probably casual. Lowland. |
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Keeled Cornsalad |
Valerianella carinata |
This autumn-germinating annual is found mainly in sites associated with human activity. Habitats include walls, gravel paths, paving, railway tracks and gardens. It does not occur in arable land. Lowland. |
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Marsh Valerian |
Valeriana dioica |
A perennial herb of calcareous mires, marshy grassland, water-meadows, flushes, Salix fen-carr and Alnus woods. 0-780 m (Cross Fell, Cumberland). |
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Female Flower from Teesdale |
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Foliage from Teesdale |
Form from Teesdale |
Red Valerian |
May onwards |
A perennial herb thoroughly naturalised on sea-cliffs, limestone rock outcrops and pavements, rocky waste ground, in quarries, on railway banks, on old walls and buildings, and in other well-drained, disturbed and open habitats. Lowland. |
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Flower from Rochester in Kent. Photo from BritishFlora |
Flowers from Rochester in Kent. Photo from BritishFlora |
Foliage from Rochester in Kent. Photo from BritishFlora |
Form from Rochester in Kent. Photo from BritishFlora |
Smooth-fruited Cornsalad |
Valerianella dentata |
An annual of arable land, especially on chalky soils, but locally also on sand and calcareous clay. It can be found most frequently in the corners of fields and along field edges which have escaped intensive management. It can germinate both in spring and autumn, but is most frequently found in spring-sown crops. It has moderately long-lived seeds. Lowland. |
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Flower from St Justinians on 16 July |
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British Native Plants List of Edible Plants:- "I thought it would be useful to include native plant lists from different regions of the world. This list is from British Isles (including Ireland and the Channel Islands) and was compiled by Professor Clive Stace of the University of Leicester for the FFF conference on Native Plants held at the Linnean Society of London, June 1997. It can be found here at the postcode plants database."
Suppliers of British native-origin seeds and plants:- "Flora locale maintains a list of suppliers who should be able to supply seeds and/or plants of known British (and sometimes known local) native-origin. Although not all their stock will necessarily be of British native-origin, they should be able to provide details of provenance on request. View Flora locale's list of suppliers - follow the "Suppliers of native flora" link. You may also wish to view the Really Wild Flowers site, which contains a wealth of information about creating habitats and cultivating native species." |
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