If you ever wondered how Bird’s-foot Trefoil got its name, you have to wait for the seedpods to appear.
Photo: Amanda Scott
Tag: Flora
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Red Campion
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Red Campion is at its most vibrant from the spring into summer. Find it in woodland edges, hedgerows and roadside verges.
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Red Campion
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Red Campion is at its most vibrant from the spring into summer. Find it in woodland edges, hedgerows and roadside verges.
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Carline Thistle
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Late-flowering Carline Thistles bring a touch of gold to the early autumn landscape at Kennack Sands. The dry flowerheads persist through the winter.
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Lesser Centaury
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Look for for Lesser Centaury in summer and early autumn along coastal clifftops.
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Autumn Lady’s-tresses
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You may be lucky and find the last blooms of this lovely, and relatively rare, member of the orchid family into October.
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Fragrant Orchid
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Fragrant Orchids are close to the end of flowering by July, but they (and their lovely scent) still linger on in some spots on The Lizard.
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Creeping Buttercup
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Not much beats a meadow full of golden buttercups.
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Ragged-robin
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Tousled pink flowers of Ragged-robin sway on their tall stems from late spring through to summer’s end.
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Kidney Vetch
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The books say Kidney Vetch blooms from June, but this is The Lizard, so it flowers from May. Look out for it on cliff tops and sand dunes from late spring through into summer.
Photo: Amanda Scott