Tag: The Lizard

  • Common Bird’s-foot Trefoil

    If you ever wondered how Bird’s-foot Trefoil got its name, you have to wait for the seedpods to appear. Photo: Amanda Scott

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  • Red Campion

    Red Campion is at its most vibrant from the spring into summer. Find it in woodland edges, hedgerows and roadside verges. Photo: Steve Townsend

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  • Red Campion

    Red Campion is at its most vibrant from the spring into summer. Find it in woodland edges, hedgerows and roadside verges. Photo: Steve Townsend

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  • Carline Thistle

    Late-flowering Carline Thistles bring a touch of gold to the early autumn landscape at Kennack Sands. The dry flowerheads persist through the winter. Photo: Steve Townsend

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  • Lesser Centaury

    Look for for Lesser Centaury in summer and early autumn along coastal clifftops. Photo: Steve Townsend

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  • Autumn Lady’s-tresses

    You may be lucky and find the last blooms of this lovely, and relatively rare, member of the orchid family into October.Photo: © Natural England/Peter Wakely 

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  • Fragrant Orchid

    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. Photo: © Natural England/Peter Wakely

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  • Creeping Buttercup

    Not much beats a meadow full of golden buttercups. Photo: Jörg Hempel, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons  

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  • Ragged-robin

    Tousled pink flowers of Ragged-robin sway on their tall stems from late spring through to summer’s end. Photo: © Natural England/Chris Gomersall

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  • Kidney Vetch

    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

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