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Abbot’s Wood, East Sussex, 84
Aberffraw Dunes, Anglesey, 40–43
acid bogs, 52, 108
Adam, Robert Moyes, 173, 174, 177
Adderstongue Spearwort, 252
Alchemilla monticola (Hairy Lady’s-mantle), 20
alder, 20, 52
Aldershot, Hampshire, 249
algae, 46, 140
Alisma gramineum (Ribbon-leaved Water-plantain), 29, 261, 264
Allen, David, 19
Alpine Bartsia, 147
Alpine Catchfly, 29, 159–63
Alpine Coltsfoot, 20
Alpine Enchanter’s Nightshade, 29, 151, 153–5, 275
Alpine Meadow Rue, 11
Alpine Rock-cress, 29, 179, 182, 183–7, 260
Alpine Woodsia, 24
anemones, 11, 46, 47
Anglesey, Wales, 40–43
Anthophora plumipes, 47
Anthoxanthum nitens (Holy-grass), 28, 30, 128–31
ants, 70–72, 205
aphids, 200
Arabis
alpina (Alpine Rock-cress), 29, 179, 181, 182–7, 260
patraea (Northern Rock-cress), 187
Arbon, Ashley, 55, 59–61
archaeophytes, 207
Arctic, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 195
arcuate stems, 12
Aristolochia clematitis (Birthwort), 61–2
arrowheads, 243
Artemisia norvegica (Norwegian Mugwort), 29, 30, 188–93, 275
Arun river, 225
asexual reproduction, 92
ash trees, 46
Ashbourne, Peak District, 15
Ashdown Forest, Sussex, 92
Asplenium x alternifolium, 135
Assynt, Highlands, 143
asters, 88
Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire, 58–9
Aston Upthorpe Down, Oxfordshire, 11
Atkinson, Robert, 6
Atriplex pedunculata (Pedunculate Sea-purslane), 29, 254–8, 265
Attenborough, David, 96
aurochs, 53
Autumn Lady’s-tresses, 79–80
Avon Gorge, Bristol, 93
Avon river, 209
Axmouth, Devon, 24
Babington, Charles Cardale, 103
bacteria, 62
Badgeworth, Gloucestershire, 252
Ballyhaugh, Coll, 235
Bantry Bay, County Cork, 231
Barkham, Patrick, 132, 138–41
Barnard Castle, Teesdale, 167
Barra, Outer Hebrides, 231
Barton-le-clay, Bedfordshire, 78
basking sharks, 239
Battlefields Register, 210
Beaked Tasselweed, 256
Beaulieu River, 45
Beautiful Butterflies, 18
Bedfordshire, England, 73–80
bedstraws, 9
beech trees, 2–3, 6, 7–8, 94
bees, 47, 56
Ben Lawers, Perth and Kinross, 11, 16, 24, 243
Ben Loyal, Sutherland, 197
Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, 231
Benfleet Downs, Southend, 248–50
Bentham, George, 14, 15, 17, 21
Bentley Brook, Ashbourne, 15
Berry Head, Devon, 16, 24
Berry, Steve, 81, 83, 86
Best Find Ever, 27
Bettyhill, Sutherland, 194–8
Białowiez ·a Forest, Poland, 129
bindweed
Black, 217
Copse, 29, 215–18
birch trees, 64, 67, 197
Bird Fair, Rutland Water, 144
Bird’s-eye Primrose, 109–10
Bird’s-nest Orchid, 271
Birds of Heath and Marshland, 18
birds, 13, 25, 208
Birthwort, 61–62
bison grass, see Holy-grass
Black Bindweed, 217
Black Cuillin, Isle of Skye, 182–7
Black Forest, Germany, 272
Black Hairstreak butterfly, 72
Blue Gromwell, 24
Blue Heath, 29, 260, 263–4
bluebells, 25, 46, 47, 84, 125, 206
Blunt, Wilfred, 19
bog-moss, 174
Bog Pimpernel, 51, 112
Bog Pondweed, 51
Bog St John’s-wort, 51
bogs, 52, 64, 108
Bogbean, 51, 238
bogey-species, 27, 210, 215
Bonar Bridge, Sutherland, 199–202
Bonner, Ian, 40, 41, 42, 43
Bonnie Prince Charlie, 174
Boon, Chris, 73–9
Boreal Sagewort, 190
Borrowdale, Cumbria, 151–5
Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire, 99
Botanical Exchange Club, 31
Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI), 31, 41, 65, 75, 269
Bournemouth, Dorset, 39
Bowes-Lyon, David, 17
Bowley, Alan, 63, 65–7, 69, 72
bracken, 82–4, 122–3, 125–6, 127, 137, 169, 218
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, 27
brambles, 21, 34, 46, 67, 75, 90, 274
Branson, Andrew, 49–54
Braunton Burrows, Devon, 24
Breckland, 113–17
Brecon Beacons, Powys, 15, 90–96, 194–5
Bringewood Chase, Shropshire, 5
Bristol Rock-cress, 34
British Wildlife, 50–51
Britty Common, Somerset, 53
Broad-leaved Cotton-grass, 50
Broad-leaved Helleborine, 7
Broadford, Isle of Skye, 179
Bromus
diandrus (Ripgut Brome), 116–17
hordeaceus (Soft Brome), 57
interruptus (Interrupted Brome), 28, 55–62
broomrape
Greater, 119
Thistle, 29, 120, 259, 262
Yarrow, 28, 118–21
Browning, Robert, 243
Brynmawr, Powys, 93
bryology, 13, 35
Builth Wells, Powys, 36
bulbils, 4, 35, 38
Bulboschoenus triqueter (Triangular Club-rush), 29, 224–7
Bulbous buttercup, 12
Bupleurum falcatum (Sickle-leaved Hare’s-ear), 29, 251–3
Burley, Hampshire, 122–7
Burlish Top, Worcestershire, 27
Burnt-tip Orchid, 80, 243
butterbur, 172
buttercups, 9, 25, 30, 191
Adderstongue Spearwort, 252
Bulbous, 12
Creeping, 12
Creeping Spearwort, 29, 156–8
Lesser Spearwort, 157
Small-flowered, 12
butterflies, 10, 13, 18
Black Hairstreak, 72
Large Copper, 105, 106
Large Skipper, 126
Butterfly Orchid, 111
Button, Nick, 261, 264
Byfield, Andy, 219, 220, 221, 224, 227
Cabaret of Plants, The (Mabey), 25, 109, 110
cabbages, 92
Caerlaverock, Dumfries and Galloway, 128
Cairngorms, Highlands, 197
Calgary Point, Coll, 236
Cambridge University, 103
Botanic Garden, 252
Cambridgeshire, England
Crested Cow-wheat, 69–72
Fen Ragwort, 102–6
Fen Woodrush, 63–8
Interrupted Brome, 55–62
Canary Islands, 62
Candytuft, 78
Canisp, Highlands, 189
Cannabis, 119
canoes, 138–41, 226
capsules, 16
Carex
elongata (Elongated Sedge), 28, 142–6
paleacea (Chaffy Sedge), 200
pauciflora (Few-flowered Sedge), 150
recta (Estuarine Sedge), 29, 199–202
Carrock Fell, Cumbria, 150
Cary, Joanna, 6
Cat Bields, Borrowdale, 153
Catalogue of plants growing around Cambridge (Ray), 61
catchflies
Alpine, 29, 159–63
Nottingham, 34
Spanish, 114
Sticky, 38
cattle, 129–30, 166, 211
Causey Pike, Borrowdale, 153
celandines, 46
Chaffy Sedge, 200
Chagford, Devon, 17
chalky soil, 42
Bedfordshire, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79
Cambridgeshire, 60
Essex, 252
and fens, 108
Oxfordshire, 8, 58
Channel Islands, 15, 21, 119
Chatters, Clive
Strapwort, 219, 220, 221–2
Triangular Club-rush, 224, 226
Wild Gladiolus, 122–6
Checketts, David, 18
Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, 93
Cheddar Pink, 34
Chelsea Flower Show, 46
chickweeds, 11, 163,
Childing Pink, 28, 87–9
Chiltern Hills, 5, 8, 59, 271, 272
chlorophyll, 2, 225
Church of England, 14
Cicero, 43
Circaea
alpina (Alpine Enchanter’s Nightshade), 29, 151, 153–5, 275
lutetiana (Common Enchanter’s Nightshade), 153
x intermedia, 153
Clapham, Arthur Roy, 18, 256
Clary, Julian, 201
clay soil, 8, 47
Clement, Eric, 66
climate change, 37, 126, 250, 274
clovers, 58
clubmosses, 133, 175
Coenagrion mercuriale, 51
Cole, Sean, 271
Coll, Inner Hebrides, 228, 231–44, 261
Irish Lady’s-tresses, 231–4
Pipewort, 235, 239
Slender Naiad, 29, 236, 237–40, 242, 261
Collins Field Guide to Wild Flowers (McClintock and Fitter), 17, 196
Colonsay, Inner Hebrides, 231
Colour Identification Guide (Rose), 52
columbine, 30, 61
comfrey, 172
Common Cotton-grass, 51
Common Dog-violet, 34
Common Enchanter’s Nightshade, 153
Common Fumitory, 77
Common Ground, The (Mabey), 99
Common Parrot’s Beak, 62
Common Sea-purslane, 255
Common Spike-rush, 17
Common Water-pepper, 211–12, 213
Common Whitebeam, 92
Concise British Flora, The (Keble Martin), 10–22
conifers, 15
Connecticut, United States, 271
Copse Bindweed, 29, 215–18
coral roots, 2, 3, 4
cordate leaves, 12
Corizus hyoscyami, 213
Corn Cockle, 243
corn marigolds, 171
Cornish Heath, 34
Cornwall, England, 16, 27, 220
Cornish Heath, 34
Triangular Club-rush, 224–7
Corrigiola litoralis (Strapwort), 29, 219–22
Cotehele, Cornwall, 224–7
Cotton-grass
Broad-leaved, 50
Common, 50, 51, 175
Hare’s-tail, 50
Slender, 28, 49–54
Cotton Grass Appreciation Society, 49–50
coumarin, 128
County Durham, England, 16, 164–8
county floras, 73–6
County Wicklow, Ireland, 183
Cow Green, Teesdale, 164
cow-wheats, 28, 69–72
cowrie shells, 240–41
cowslip, 30
Craig y Cilau, Brecon Beacons, 93
Cranwich Camp, Norfolk, 113, 115–16
Creeping Buttercup, 12
Creeping Spearwort, 29, 156–8
Crepis praemorsa (Leafless Hawk’s-beard), 28, 30, 147–9
cresses, 92
Crested Buckler-fern, 28, 132–7
Crested Cow-wheat, 28, 69–72
Crete, 75, 76
cripplers, 27
critically endangered plants, 55, 269
crowberry, 175
crowcups, 30
crystal quartzite, 175
cuckoos, 70, 171
Cul Beag, Highlands, 191
Cul Mor, Highlands, 188–93
Cumbria, England
Alpine Catchfly, 159–63
Alpine Enchanter’s Nightshade, 151
Creeping Spearwort, 156–8
Elongated Sedge, 142–6
Leafless Hawk’s-beard, 147–9
Thread Rush, 151, 152–3
Yarrow Broomrape, 119, 120, 121–2
cymes, 12
Cymyran, Anglesey, 42
Czech Republic, 67
Daily Express, 201
Daily Mail, 104
daisies, 25
Dalby, Claire, 52, 64
dandelions, 30, 90
Dartford Warbler, 50
Dartmoor, Devon, 17, 23
Darwin, Charles, 3, 26, 189, 215
Davis, Brian, 72
Dawlish Warren, Devon, 24
deer, 8, 67, 111, 124, 197, 204
Deet, 125
Denton, Jonty, 27
Derwentwater, Cumbria, 151, 152, 153–4
devil’s lily, 46
Devon, England, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23–4, 27
Blue Gromwell, 24
Heath Lobelia, 15
rockroses, 24
Sand-crocus, 24
Spiked Rampion, 85
Strapwort, 219–23
diabetes, 244–6, 272
Diapensia Lapponica, 29, 30, 143, 170–77, 200, 275
Dines, Trevor, 269
Dioscorides, 148
diploid chromosomes, 92
dock, 72, 145
dog-roses, 91
Dog-violet, Common, 34
Dony, John, 74, 75–6
Dovedale, Peak District, 17
Downy Woundwort, 34
Drawings of British Plants (Ross-Craig), 17, 287
Droitwich, Worcestershire, 261, 264
Drooping Saxifrage, 16
Druce, George Claridge, 21, 58
Drummochter Pass, Perthshire, 260, 262–4
Drunken Botanist, The (Stewart), 131
Dryopteris cristata (Crested Buckler-fern), 28, 132–7
Dublin, Ireland, 183
Dunsden, Oxfordshire, 11
Durham, County Durham, 110
Durrell, Gerald, 223
Dwarf Spurge, 78
Early Marsh-orchid, 28, 107–12
Early Purple Orchid, 46
Early Sand-grass, 28, 40–43
Early Spider Orchid, 243
Early Star-of-Bethlehem, see Radnor Lily
East Anglia, 66, 72, 102, 108
Eastbourne, East Sussex, 82
Ebury Press, 19
Edinburgh, Scotland, 26, 173
Eel Crag, Borrowdale, 153
Elegant Hawkweed, 97
Eleocharis palustris (Common Spike-rush), 17
elm trees, 204, 206
Elongated Sedge, 28, 142–6
Ely, Cambridgeshire, 102, 103–5
Enchanter’s Nightshade
Alpine, 29, 151, 153–5, 275
Common, 153
England
Alpine Catchfly, 159–63
Childing Pink, 87–9
Copse Bindweed, 215–18
Creeping Spearwort, 156–8
Crested Buckler-fern, 132–7
Crested Cow-wheat, 69–72
Early Marsh-orchid, 107–12
Elongated Sedge, 142–6
Fen Ragwort, 102–6
Fen Woodrush, 63–8
Few-flowered Fumitory, 73–9
Hartwort, 248–50
Holly-leaved Naiad, 138–41
Interrupted Brome, 55–62
Leafless Hawk’s-beard, 147–9
Lungwort, 44–8
Pedunculate Sea-purslane, 254–8
Proliferous Pink, 113, 114–15
Purple-stem Cat’s-tail, 113, 114, 116–17, 120
Sickle-leaved Hare’s-ear, 251–3
Slender Cotton-grass, 49–54
Spiked Rampion, 81–6
Starry Clover, 87–8
Strapwort, 219–23
Suffolk Lungwort, 44–8
Tasteless Water-pepper, 209–14
Thistle Broomrape, 259, 261–2
Thread Rush, 151, 152–3
Tintern Spurge, 203–8
Triangular Club-rush, 224–7
Wild Gladiolus, 122–7
Yarrow Broomrape, 119, 120, 121–2
English Heritage, 210
English Whitebeam, 95
Epilobium roseum (Pale Willowherb), 210
Epping, Essex, 252
Eriocaulon aquaticum (Pipewort), 29, 235, 239
Eriophorum
angustifolium (Common Cotton-grass), 50, 51
gracile (Slender Cotton-grass), 28, 49–54
latifolium (Broad-leaved Cotton-grass), 50
vaginatum (Hare’s-tail Cotton-grass), 50
Eristalinus aeneus, 221
Essex, England
Hartwort, 248–50
Pedunculate Sea-purslane, 254–8
Sickle-leaved Hare’s-ear, 251–3
Estuarine Sedge, 29, 199–202
Euphorbia serrulata (Tintern/ Upright Spurge), 203–8
Euphrasia vigursii (Vigur’s Eyebright), 20
Evans, Tony, 109
Exaculum pusillum (Guernsey Centaury), 21
Exbury Gardens, Hampshire, 45
Excellent Hawkweed, 97
Exeter, Devon, 209
University, 19, 24
extinction, 55–6, 62
of Corn Cockle, 243
of Fen Woodrush, 63
of Ghost Orchid, 4, 266–7
of Interrupted Brome, 55–6, 58
eyebrights, 11, 91, 196
Vigur’s, 20
Fabergé eggs, 175
fairy flax, 196
Fairy Pools, Isle of Skye, 185
Falcon Crag, Borrowdale, 151
Fallopia dumetorum (Copse Bindweed), 29, 215–18
Fen Ragwort, 28, 102–6
Fen Violets, 65
Fen Woodrush, 28, 63–8
fens, 53, 64, 66, 105, 107–12, 133
Holme, Cambridgeshire, 63–8
Woodbastwick, Norfolk, 132–7
Woodwalton, Cambridgeshire, 64, 102, 105–6
Alpine Woodsia, 24
Asplenium x alternifolium, 135
Crested Buckler, 28, 132–7
Killarney, 135, 269
Oblong Woodsia, 134
Royal, 67
Woodsia, 24, 134
fern-allies, 9, 133
fertilisers, 52, 221
Few-flowered Fumitory, 28, 73–9
Few-flowered Sedge, 150
Field Eryngo, 27
Field Scabious, 243
Field Wormwood, 114–15
Fingered Speedwell, 114–15
Finland, 52, 174
Fitch, William Hood, 14
Fitter, Richard Sidney Richmond, 17, 21
floras
Catalogue of plants growing around Cambridge, 61
Concise British Flora, see under Keble Martin
and ferns, 134
Flora of Ashdown Forest, 92
Flora of Bedfordshire, 73–6
Flora of Cumbria, 158
Flora of Tiree, Gunna and Coll, 232
and herbariums, 115, 132
New Atlas of the British & Irish Flora, 205, 206
Floréal, 48
florets, 16
Florida, United States, 138
Flowering of Britain, The (Mabey), 109
Forestry Commission, 53, 85
forget-me-nots, 11, 172
Fortey, Richard, 2
Foulness Island, 257–8
France, 149
fritillary, 30
Frog Orchid, 111
froghoppers, 253
frogs, 41, 42
fumitories, 28, 73–9
Common (Fumaria officinalis), 77
Few-flowered (Fumaria vaillantii), 28, 73–9
fungi, 2–3, 62, 176–7
Gagea
bohemica (Radnor Lily), 21, 28, 30, 33–9
serotina (Snowdon Lily), 35–6
gap-phase species, 206
Garwnant Forest Centre, Merthyr Tydfil, 99
Gerard, John, 61
Germander Speedwell, 243
Ghost Orchid, 1–8, 22, 27, 261, 264–72
‘beard’, 3
and beech trees, 2–3, 6, 7–8
bulbils, 4
coral root, 2, 3, 4
discovery (1854), 5
extinction, presumed, 4, 266–7
flowers, 3–4
and fungi, 2–3, 267
Graham’s rediscovery (1953), 5, 6, 266, 270
as grail, 22, 27
Jannink’s rediscovery (2009), 267–70, 272
Plantlife’s Declaration (2009), 267
Gibbons, Bob, 242–4
and Crested Buckler-fern, 132, 136
and Irish Lady’s-tresses, 231, 232
and Pipewort, 240
and Radnor Lily, 37
and Slender Naiad, 238
Gilbert and Sullivan, 227
Gingerbread Sedge, see Elongated Sedge
ginkgo, 62
Gladiolus illyricus (Wild Gladiolus), 28, 30, 122–7
Glen Feshie, Cairngorms, 197
Glenfinnan, Highlands, 169, 170–77
Gloucestershire, England
Adderstongue Spearwort, 252
Gloucester, 207, 209
Tasteless Water-pepper, 209–14
Tintern Spurge, 203–8
gneiss, 189, 191, 232
Goodall, Jane, 274
Gower Peninsula, West Glamorgan, 41
GPS (Global Positioning System), 31, 131, 143, 154–5
Graham, Rex, 5, 6, 266, 270, 271
grails, 27
Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, 142
grapnels, 138–9, 141, 237–8
grasses, 12, 20
Early Sand-grass, 28, 40–43
Holy-grass, 28, 30, 128–31
Interrupted Brome, 28, 55–62
Purple-stem Cat’s-tail, 28, 114, 115, 116–18, 121
Soft Brome, 57
Somerset Hair-grass, 34
great gale (1987), 8
Greater Broomrape, 119
Greece, 75, 76
Greek Spurrey, 27
Green, Harry, 261, 264
Grey Hair-grass, 27
Grigson, Geoffrey, 30, 81
grippers, 27
Grisedale Pike, Borrowdale, 153, 163
Guardian, 132
Guernsey Centaury, 21
Guinness World Records, 252
Gwynedd, kingdom of (c.450– 1216), 43
Hairy Lady’s-mantle, 20
Halliday, Geoffrey, 148, 149, 157
Hampshire, England, 220
Copse Bindweed, 215–18
Narrow-leaved Lungwort, 45
Slender Cotton-grass, 49–54
Wild Gladiolus, 123–8
Wildlife Trust, 220
Handbook on the Crucifers, 92
Harbour Club, Shoreham, 88
hardy grass, 175
Hare’s-tail Cotton-grass, 50
Hart, Henry Chichester, 183–4
Hartwort, 29, 248–50
Harwich, Essex, 103
Hatchards bookshop, Piccadilly, 19
hawks, 148
hawkweeds, 90, 91, 96–7, 149
Attenborough’s, 96
Elegant, 97
Excellent, 97
Limestone, 96
Memorable, 97
Neat, 97
Noble, 97
Remarkable, 97
Splendid, 97
hazel, 46
Heath Lobelia, 15
Heath Woodrush, 64, 65
heather, 225, 260
Heathfield, East Sussex, 81–6
Hedge Parsley, 205
helleborine, 7, 271
hemp, 119
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 5–8, 265, 266
Herb Paris, 46
herbariums, 115, 226, 252
herbicide, 59–60, 76, 104, 268
Hereford, Herefordshire, 39
Hiawatha, 139
Hickling Broad, Norfolk, 138–41
hieraciology, 96
Hieracium
attenboroughianum (Attenborough’s Hawkweed), 96
insigne (Noble Hawkweed), 97
memorabile (Memorable Hawkweed), 97
mundum (Elegant Hawkweed), 97
notabile (Remarkable Hawkweed), 97
optimum (Splendid Hawkweed), 97
perscitum (Neat Hawkweed), 97
probum (Excellent Hawkweed), 97
subbritannicum (Limestone Hawkweed), 96
High Spy, Borrowdale, 153
Highlands, Scotland, 276
Alpine Rock-cress, 179, 182, 183–7
Estuarine Sedge, 199–202
Diapensia, 143, 170–77
Iceland Purslane, 178–81
Norwegian Mugwort, 188–93
Purple Oxytropis, 194–7
Highnam Wood, Gloucestershire, 207
Hobcarton Crag, Whinlatter Pass, 159–63
hogweed, 71, 274
holly, 218
Holly-leaved Naiad, 28, 138–41, 236
Holly, Eileen, 6, 7
Holme Fen, Cambridgeshire, 63–8
Holy-grass, 28, 30, 128–31
Hooded Lady’s-tresses, 231
Hooker, Joseph Dalton, 14, 17, 21
Hopegill Head, Borrowdale, 153
horses, 56
horsetails, 133
Hungary, 48
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 102
hurricanes, 36
Ice Age, 180–81, 275
Ice-cream Orchid, 28, 107–12
Iceland Purslane, 29, 30, 178–81
Icklingham, Suffolk, 113
Inchnadamph, Highlands, 189
Independent, The 201
Inner Hebrides, Scotland
Coll, 228, 230, 231–3, 235–41, 243, 261
Isle of Skye, 143, 178–81, 182–7, 261
Inocybe, 2
Interrupted Brome, 28, 55–62
Inverness, Highlands, 169, 200
Ireland, 15, 21, 25, 184, 202–3
Hart Walk, 184
Irish Lady’s-tresses, 231
Slender Cotton-grass, 52
Triangular Club-rush, 225
Irish Lady’s-tresses, 23, 29, 231–4
Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, 220
Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, 143, 182–7, 260
Alpine Rock-cress, 182–7, 260
Iceland Purslane, 178–81
Isle of Wight, 119
ivy, 14, 119
Jacob’s Ladder, 15
Jacobite rising (1745), 174
Jannink, Mark, 267–70, 272
Japanese Rose, 61
Jefferies, Richard, 228
Jepson, Peter, 184, 185
Jermyn, Stan, 252
‘jizz’, 12
Jones, Ben, 231, 232, 233–4
Jones, Theophilus, 93
Joseph, Michael, 19
Journal of Botany, 15
Juncus filiformis (Thread Rush), 28, 151, 152–3
juniper, 15, 197
Keble Martin, William, 9, 10–22, 24, 25, 26, 32, 143, 241, 273, 276
on Alpine Enchanter’s Nightshade, 154
on clovers, 58
on Creeping Spearwort, 156, 157
on Crested Cow-wheat, 71
on Early Sand-grass, 43
on ferns, 133
on fumitories, 77
on Holly-leaved Naiad, 140
on Holy-grass, 131
on Interrupted Brome, 57, 58
on Pedunculate Sea-purslane, 254, 255
on Slender Cotton-grass, 52
on Spiked Rampion, 84
on whitebeams, 91
on Yarrow Broomrape, 119
keck, 171, 243
Kent, England, 34, 206
Kew Gardens, London, 26, 47, 140, 173, 221, 252
Killarney Fern, 134
Kincardine, Fife, 34
King Lear (Shakespeare), 192–3
Kington, Miles, 77
Kirschner, Jan, 67
knapweed, 119
Koenigia islandica (Iceland Purslane), 29, 30, 178–81
Kyle of Lochalsh, Highlands, 188
Lady Park Wood, 204–6
Lady’s Slipper orchid, 34, 112
Lady’s Smock, 48
lady’s-mantles, 20
ladybirds, 211
Lake District
Alpine Catchfly, 159–63
Alpine Enchanter’s Nightshade, 151
Creeping Spearwort, 156–8
Elongated Sedge, 142–6
Leafless Hawk’s-beard, 147–9
Thread Rush, 151, 153–4
Yarrow Broomrape, 119, 120, 121–2
Lakenheath, Suffolk, 118, 120
Lamium confertum (Northern Dead-nettle), 233–4
Lancashire, England, 50
Lancastrian Whitebeam, 144
lanceolate leaves, 12
Landseer, Edwin Henry, 197
Langdon Beck, County Durham, 167
Lapland, 173
Lapworth, Charles, 189
Large Copper butterfly, 105, 106
Large Skipper butterfly, 126
Large-leaved Lime, 94
Leach, Simon, 255–6, 265
Leafless Hawk’s-beard, 28, 30, 147–9
Least Whitebeam, 28, 90–96
Lesne’s Earwig, 213
Lesser Spearwort, 157
Lesser Tree-mallow, 27
Lewisian gneiss, 189, 232
Ley, Augustus, 99
Ley’s Whitebeam, 28, 98–101
lilies, 222
lime trees, 94, 144
limestone, 42
Craig y Cilau, 93
Merthyr Tydfil, 98
Orton, 147
Roudsea Wood, 144
Tor Bay, 23
and whitebeams, 91, 93, 98
Limestone Hawkweed, 96
Lincolnshire, England, 102
lithography, 17
liverworts, 74
Lizard Orchid, 20, 111
The Lizard, Cornwall, 16, 220
Lobelia urens, 15
Loch a Mhill Aird, Coll, 235
Loch Leven, Perth and Kinross, 157
Lochaber, Highlands, 143, 170–77
Loddon Pondweed, 27
London Catalogue of British Plants, 15, 21
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 139
Lotus berthelotii (Parrot’s Beak), 62
louseworts, 191
Lousley, Ted 99
Lugnaquilla, County Wicklow, 183
Lundy, Devon, 24
Lundy Cabbage, 34
lungworts
Narrow-leaved, 45
Suffolk, 21, 28, 44–8
Luton, Bedfordshire, 74
Luzula multiflora (Heath Woodrush), 64
Luzula pallescens (Fen Woodrush), 63–8
Lychnis alpina (Alpine Catchfly), 29
Lychnis flos-cuculi (Ragged-Robin), 171, 233
Lyme disease, 123–5
Lyndhurst, Hampshire, 123
Mabey, Richard, 25, 99, 107–9
MacDonald, Iain, 168–9, 260, 263
Maiden Moor, Borrowdale, 153
Manchester, England, 58
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 38
maple trees, 46
Martini Bianco, 131
Maryport, Cumbria, 118
Massey, Maurice, 64–5
Mat-grass Fescue, 20
McClintock, David, 4, 5, 17, 21, 196
Meadow-rues, 11
Meallan Diomhain, Cul Mor, 191
medicks, 149
Medieval era, 30, 61
Medway river, 225
Melampyrum Bank, Cambridgeshire, 71–2
Melampyrum, see cow-wheats
Memorable Hawkweed, 97
Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, 98
Mibora minima (Early Sand-grass), 28, 40–43
Michelin star-system, 17
micro-species, 21, 93, 99, 276
Middle Ages, 30, 61
milkmaids, 48
milkwort, 191, 196
Millard, Pat, 81, 83
Ministry of Defence, 257
mizzle, 174
molecular taxonomy, 225
Monarch of the Glen, The (Landseer), 197
Monkey Orchid, 31
Monks Wood, Cambridgeshire, 69–72
Moon Carrot, 79
Morecambe Bay, 144
mosses, 13, 35, 51, 74
Mossy Saxifrage, 15
moths, 10, 13, 157, 202
Motley, Graham, 101
Motley’s Whitebeam, 100–101
motorbikes, 42
Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 176
Mourning Bells of Sodom, 30
mudwort, 24, 145
muntjac deer, 67, 111
music, 103
My Family and Other Animals (Durrell), 223
mycelium, 2
mycorrhizal fungi, 176
naiads, 30, 138–41
Holly-leaved (Najas marina), 28, 138–41, 237
Slender (Najas flexilis), 29, 235, 237–40, 243, 261
Narrow-leaved Lungwort, 45
Narrow-lipped Helleborine, 7
National Magazine Company, 19
National Museum Wales, 268
National Trust, 27, 82, 157, 174, 227
natterjack toads, 129
Natural England, 45, 85, 133, 264
Natural History Museum, London, 59, 67, 249
Nature Conservancy Council, 64, 167
Nature of Wyre, The (Westwood), 220
Neat Hawkweed, 97
Netherlands, 257
nettles, 34, 71, 72, 75, 171, 274
New Atlas of the British & Irish Flora, 205, 206
New England, 173
New Forest, 49–54, 122–7, 220, 275
New Hampshire, United States, 176
Newmarket, Suffolk, 103
nitrates, 221, 274
Noble Hawkweed, 97
Norfolk, England, 69, 123
Crested Buckler-fern, 132–7
Holly-leaved Naiad, 28, 138–41
Proliferous Pink, 113, 114–15
Northern Dead-nettle, 233–4
Northern Knotgrass, 240
Northern Rock-cress, 187
Northumberland, England, 129
Norway, 157, 177, 190
Norwegian Mugwort, 29, 30, 189–94, 275
Norwich, Norfolk, 45
Nottingham Catchfly, 34
Oblong Woodsia, 134
Observer’s Book of Wild Flowers, The, 243
ochroleuca (Early Marsh-orchid), 28, 107–12
Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, 179
old plants, 207
Ongar, Essex, 251–3
onionweed, 140
oraches, 91, 255
orchids, 9, 20, 23, 79–80
Autumn Lady’s-tresses, 79–80
Bird’s-nest, 271
Burnt-tip, 80, 244
Butterfly, 111
Common-spotted, 84
Early Marsh, 28, 107–12
Early Purple, 46
Early Spider, 244
Frog, 111
Ghost, 1–8, 22, 27, 261, 264–72
Helleborines, 271
Irish Lady’s-tresses, 23, 29, 231–4
Lady’s Slipper, 34, 112
Lizard, 20, 111
Monkey, 31
Ordnance Survey, 143, 216
Oregon, United States, 163
Orkney, Scotland, 129, 240
Orobanche
purpurea (Yarrow Broomrape), 28, 119–22
rapum-genistae (Greater Broomrape), 119
reticulata (Thistle Broomrape), 29, 119, 259, 262
Orton, Cumbria, 147–50
ospreys, 144–5
Outen, Alan, 74
Over the Hills (Keble Martin), 19
Overbury Park, Gloucestershire, 13
owls, 152, 164
Oxfordshire
Aston Rowant, 58–9
Aston Upthorpe Down, 11
Downy Woundwort, 34
Dunsden, 11
Henley-on-Thames, 5–8, 265, 266
Oxford University, 13–14
Oxytropis halleri (Purple Oxytropis), 29, 195–7, 201
Pagham Harbour, West Sussex, 89
Pale Willowherb, 210
pan-listers, 26–7
pansies, 30
papillosities, 52
parasitic plants
Ghost Orchid, 1–8, 22, 27, 261, 264–72
Thistle Broomrape, 119, 259, 262
Yarrow Broomrape, 119–21
Parnassus, 14–15
Parrot’s Beak, 62
Pasqueflower, 11, 79
Paul, Vera, 6
Peak District, 15
Pearman, Anita ‘Sammy’, 232, 238
Pearman, David, 276
and Greek Spurrey, 27
and Irish Lady’s-tresses, 231, 232
and Lesser Tree-mallow, 27
and medicks, 149
and Northern Knotgrass, 242
and Slender Naiad, 238–40
and Tintern Spurge, 206, 208
Pedunculate Oak, 16
Pedunculate Sea-purslane, 29, 254–8, 265
Pegsdon, Bedfordshire, 73, 78
Pen y Fan, Brecon Beacons, 195–6
Penmoelallt, Mid Glamorgan, 98
Pennines, 163, 167
Penrith, Cumbria, 167
Perennial Knawel, 114
Persicaria
hydropiper (Common Water-pepper), 211–12, 213
mitis (Tasteless Water-pepper), 29, 210–14
Peterken, George, 204–7
Petrorhagia
nantuelii (Childing Pink), 28, 87–9, 114, 115
prolifera (Proliferous Pink), 28, 113, 115–16
Pheasant’s Eye, 11
pheasants, 46
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 18
Phleum phleoides (Purple-stem Cat’s-tail), 28, 114, 115, 116–18, 120
phosphates, 274
photosynthesis, 2, 70, 118
Phyllodoce caerulea (Blue Heath), 29, 260, 262–4
Phyteuma spicatum (Spiked Rampion), 28, 81–6
pimpernels, 30, 84
pine, 197
pinks
Cheddar, 34
Childing, 28, 87–9, 114
Proliferous, 28, 113, 115–16
Pipewort, 29, 235, 239
Pitlochry, Perthshire, 143, 168–9
plankton, 141, 221
plantains, 29, 34
Plantlife, 13, 92, 267
Plymouth, Devon, 27
Poland, 129, 130, 132
Poland, John, 66
Polygonatum verticillatum (Whorled Solomon’s-seal), 29, 168
Polygonum
boreale (Northern Knotgrass), 240
mite (Tasteless Water-pepper), 29, 209–14
pondweeds, 9, 12, 149
Bog, 51
Loddon, 27
Slender-leaved, 29, 236, 239–240
ponies, 53, 124, 166
poppies, 76
population dynamics, 164–8
Porter, Julie, 143, 149, 155
Porter, Mike
and Alpine Enchanter’s Nightshade, 152, 154–5
and Creeping Spearwort, 156–8
and Few-flowered Sedge, 150
and Elongated Sedge, 142–6
and Holy-grass, 130–132
and sedges, 142–6, 150, 156, 200, 276
and Thread Rush, 152, 153
and Yarrow Broomrape, 118, 121
Post Office, 19
Potamogeton filiformis (Slender-leaved Pondweed), 29
Povlsen, Anders, 197
Powys, Wales
Brecon Beacons, 15, 90–97, 194–5
Builth Wells, 36
Prague, Czech Republic, 67
Prendergast, Alex, 44–8, 132, 138–41
Preston, Chris, 149, 237
Price, Dominic, 85
Pride of Sussex, 82–3
primroses, 30, 46, 84
Bird’s-eye Primrose, 109–10
Proliferous Pink, 28, 113, 114–15
Prymnesium, 141
Pugsley, Herbert William, 16
Pullen, Phil, 27
Pulmonaria
longifolia (Narrow-leaved Lungwort), 45
obscura (Suffolk Lungwort), 21, 28, 44–8
Purbeck, Dorset, 220
Purple Broomrape, see Yarrow Broomrape
Purple Oxytropis, 29, 194–8, 200
Purple-stem Cat’s-tail, 28, 114, 115, 116–18, 120
Pyner, Tim, 254, 256
quaker grass, 171, 243
quartzite, 175
quillworts, 133
Quinag, Highlands, 189
rabbits, 38–9, 42, 79, 250, 253
Rackham, Oliver, 26
Radio Four, 210
Radnor Lily, 21, 28, 30, 33–9
Ragged Robin, 171, 233
ragwort, 88, 102–6
Rainbird, George, 18, 19
Rainbow Dust (Marren), 201, 219
rampions
Round-headed, 82–3
Spiked, 28, 81–6
Rand, Martin, 215, 216–18
Random House, 19
Ranunculus
bulbosus (Bulbous buttercup), 12
flammula (Lesser Spearwort), 157
ophioglossifolius (Adderstongue Spearwort), 252
parviflorus (Small-flowered buttercup), 12
repens (Creeping buttercup), 12
reptans (Creeping Spearwort), 29, 157–8
x levenensis, 157
Ratcliffe, Derek, 134
Raven, John, 175, 184, 185
Raven, Sarah, 165
ravens, 161
Ray, John, 61, 147
Red Data Book, 65, 115, 169, 252
Red Morocco, 11
Red Rattle, 112
Red Star-thistle, 27
reeds, 227
Rees, Ivor, 40, 41, 42
Rees, Jane, 40, 41
Remarkable Hawkweed, 97
rhododendron, 30
Ribbon-leaved Water-plantain, 29, 261, 264
Rich, Tim, 92, 149, 276
and hawkweeds, 149
and Least Whitebeam, 90, 93–7
and Ley’s Whitebeam, 98–101
Tim’s Whitebeam, 91
Rickard, Martin, 133, 134
Ringwood Chase, Shropshire, 5
Ripgut Brome, 116–17
Ripon Loop, North Yorkshire, 259, 262
Rix, Martin, 36
Robertson, James, 40, 41
Robertson, Joanna, 41
Robinson, Martin, 168–9, 260, 263–4
Rock Whitebeam, 95
rock-cress
Alpine, 29, 179, 182, 183–7, 261
Northern, 187
rock-roses, 24, 175
Rose, Frances, 52
Ross-Craig, Stella, 17
Roudsea Wood, Cumbria, 142–6
Rough Poppy, 60
Round-headed Rampion, 82–3
rowan, 92, 95, 100, 197
Royal Fern, 67
Royal Horticultural Society, 17
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), 13, 232, 233
Rumsey, Fred
and Crested Buckler-fern, 134, 136
and Fen Woodrush, 67
and ferns, 133–4
and Hartwort, 248, 249
and Interrupted Brome, 55, 59–60
and Pedunculate Sea-purslane, 254, 256–8
and Sickle-leaved Hare’s-ear, 251–3
Rumsey, Sue, 249
rushes, 9, 11, 112
Common Spike, 17
Thread, 28, 151, 152–3
Russian Vine, 216
Rutland, England, 144
Sail Fell, Borrowdale, 153
sainfoin, 56
Salisbury Plain, 27
Sand-crocus, 24
Sandwith, Noel Yvri, 17
sandwort, 32
Teesdale Sandwort, 163–5
Sandy Balls, Hampshire, 215–18
Sapey Brook, 5
Saturday Live, 201
saxifrages
Drooping, 16
Mossy, 15
Tufted, 24
Schoenoplectus triqueter (Triangular Club-rush), 29, 224–7
Scirpus triqueter (Triangular Club-rush), 29, 224–7
Scorpidium cossonii, 51
Scotland, 143
Alpine Catchfly, 159
Alpine Meadow Rue, 11
Alpine Rock-cress, 29, 179, 182, 183–7
Ben Lawers, 11, 16, 24, 243
Creeping Spearwort, 29, 156
Diapensia, 170–77
Drooping Saxifrage, 16
Estuarine Sedge, 199–202
Holy-grass, 128–31
Iceland Purslane, 178–81
Irish Lady’s-tresses, 231–4
Norwegian Mugwort, 188–93
Pipewort, 235, 239
Purple Oxytropis, 194–8
Ribbon-leaved Water-plantain, 261, 264
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 26, 173
Slender Naiad, 29, 235, 236–40, 243, 261
Whorled Solomon’s-seal, 168–9
Scots pine, 15
Scott, Michael and Sue, 184, 185–7
Scottish Natural Heritage, 169, 263
Sea Barley, 256
Sea Daffodil, 222–3
Sea-aster, 257
Sea-lavender, 257
Sea-purslane
Common, 255
Pedunculate, 29, 254–8
Sea-spurrey, 257
seashells, 42
Second World War (1939–45), 93
sedges, 9, 12, 20, 84, 112, 149–50, 264
Elongated, 28, 142–6
Estuarine, 29, 199–201
Few-flowered, 150
seed-heads, 12
Senecio paludosus (Fen Ragwort), 28, 102–6
sepals, 12
Seven Sisters, Sussex, 27
Severn river, 210, 211
Sgùrr a’ Mhadaidh, Black Cuillin, 184
Shakespeare, William, 30, 192–3
Shannon river, 225
Sharp-leaved Fluellen, 60
Shaw, Andrew, 33, 36–9
sheep, 79–80, 164–6, 180, 186
Shepherd’s Cress, 163
Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, 87–9, 114
Sickle-leaved Hare’s-ear, 29, 251–3
Silene suecica (Alpine Catchfly), 29
Silver Sands, Shoreham, 88–9
Site of Special Scientific Interest, 212
Skiddaw, Cumbria, 163
Skye, Inner Hebrides, 143, 178–81, 182–7
skylarks, 42, 131
Slapton Ley, Devon, 219–23
Slender Cotton-grass, 28, 49–54
Slender Naiad, 29, 235, 236–40, 242
Slender-leaved Pondweed, 29, 236, 239–41
sloe, 72
Small Toadflax, 78
Small-flowered buttercup, 12
Smith, Philip Morgans, 56, 58
snake’s-heads, 30
Snowdon Lily, 35–6
snowdrops, 14
Solway Firth, 128
Somerset Hair-grass, 34
Sorbus
anglica (English Whitebeam), 95
aria (Common Whitebeam), 92
cambrensis (Welsh Whitebeam), 94
intermedia (Swedish Whitebeam), 99
lancastriensis (Lancastrian white-beam), 144
leptophylla (Thin-leaved Whitebeam), 94, 96
leyana (Ley’s Whitebeam), 28, 98–101
minima (Least Whitebeam), 28, 90–96
richii (Tim’s Whitebeam), 91
rupicola (Rock Whitebeam), 95
x motleyi (Motley’s Whitebeam), 100
sorrels, 171, 178
Southend, Essex, 248–50, 254–8
Southern Damselfly, 51
Sow of Atholl, Perthshire, 260, 262–4
Sowerby, James, 243
Spanish Catchfly, 114
Spear Thistle, 34
spearworts, 233
Adderstongue, 252
Creeping, 29, 156–8
Lesser, 157
Species Recovery Trust, 83, 85
speedwells, 9, 172
Fingered, 114–15
Germander, 243
Western Spiked, 38
Spike-rush, Common, 17
Spiked Rampion, 28, 81–6
Spiranthes romanzoffiana (Irish Lady’s-tresses), 23, 29, 231–4
Splendid Hawkweed, 97
Spotted Cat’s-ear, 79
Spring Gentian, 165–6
Spruce Wormwood, 190
Squirrel Awareness Week, 152
St Briavels, Gloucestershire, 203–8
St Neots, Cambridgeshire, 172
Stac Polly, Highlands, 189
Stace, Clive, 26, 256
Stace-tickers, 26, 45
stamens, 16
stamps, 19
Stanner Rocks, 33–9
Starry Clover, 87–9
Staverton, Devon, 13
Sterile Brome, 60
sterility
Circaea x intermedia, 153
Fen Ragwort, 105
Ghost Orchid, 4
Parrot’s Beak, 62
Radnor Lily, 35
Triangular Club-rush, 225
Stewart, Amy, 131
Sticky Catchfly, 38
stinging nettles, 34, 71, 72, 75, 171, 274
Stinking Hawksbeard, 27
Stokes, Jonathan, 122–7
stoneworts, 46, 139, 140
Storr, Isle of Skye, 178–81
Strachan, Ian, 170, 174–7, 276
Strapwort, 29, 219–23
strawberries, 165
Stroh, Peter, 63, 65–8, 69, 72, 116
subglobose fruit, 79
Suffolk, England
Early Marsh-orchid, 28, 107–12
Lungwort, 21, 28, 44–8
Purple-stem Cat’s-tail, 114, 115, 116–18, 120
Yarrow Broomrape, 118, 121
Suilven, Highlands, 189
Summerhayes, Victor Samuel, 6
super-ragwort, 103
Surrey, England, 135
Sussex, England, 27, 81–6
Childing Pink, 87–9, 115
Round-headed Rampion, 82
Spiked Rampion, 28, 81–6
Starry Clover, 87–9
Sutherland, Highlands, 194–8, 199–202
Sway, Hampshire, 49–54
Sweden, 129, 197, 272
Swedish Whitebeam, 99
Swithland Wood, Leicestershire, 243
sycamore, 20
Tamar Valley, Cotehele, 224–8
tansy, 172
Tasteless Water-pepper, 29, 209–14
Tebbutt, Charles Frederick, 172
Tedstone Delamere, Herefordshire, 5
Teesdale, County Durham, 16, 163–7
Sandwort, 163–7
Violet, 165, 166
Teesdale, Robert, 164
Teesdalia (Shepherd’s Cress), 164
Tennyson, Alfred, 217
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, 209–14
Thames river, 225, 249, 250
Theophrastus, 70
Thetford, Norfolk, 69, 113
Thin-leaved Whitebeam, 94, 96
thistle, 72, 119, 253
Thistle Broomrape, 29, 119, 259, 262
thistledown, 53
Thread Rush, 28, 151, 152–4
Thurso, Highlands, 200
thyme, 42, 196
ticks, 123–5
Tim’s Whitebeam, 91
Tintern Spurge, 29, 30, 203–8
toads, 41, 42, 129
Tomlinson, Graham, 159, 162–3
Tor Bay, Devon, 23
Tordylium maximum (Hartwort), 29, 248–50
Torridonian sandstone, 189
toxins, 62
Trailing Azalea, 175
Tree Council, 99
Triangular Club-rush, 29, 224–8
Trifolium stellatum (Starry Clover), 87–9
Trivia, 240
Trotternish, Isle of Skye, 180
Tuberous Thistle, 27
Tufted Saxifrage, 24
Tutin, Thomas Gaskell, 18
twayblades, 84
Tweet of the Day, 210
Ullapool, Highlands, 189
Ullswater, Cumbria, 156–8
umbellifers, 12
umbels, 12
unimproved meadows, 57
United States
Connecticut, 271
Florida, 138
New England, 173
New Hampshire, 176
Oregon, 163
Unspotted Lungwort, see Suffolk Lungwort
Upper Lode, Tewkesbury, 209, 211–13
Upper Lune Valley, Cumbria, 147
Upper Teesdale, County Durham, 16, 164–5
Upright Spurge, 29, 30, 203–8
Ural mountains, 191
Ure river, 259, 261–2
Vachell, Eleanor, 7
Vale of Ffestiniog, Snowdonia, 134
Valhalla, 14–15
vasculums, 46
Venus’s Looking-glass, 60, 78
Victorian Fern Craze, 133
Vigur’s Eyebright, 20
Violet Horned-poppy, 20
violets, 7, 46
Viper’s Bugloss, 88
Virgin Marys, 45
vodka, 128, 129, 131
Wainwright, Alfred, 143, 159–61, 269
Wales
Early Sand-grass, 40–43
Killarney Fern, 134, 269–70
Ghost Orchid, 267–70
Least Whitebeam, 90–96
Ley’s Whitebeam, 98–101
lightning strikes, 194–5
Radnor Lily, 33–9
Slender Cotton-grass, 52
Snowdon Lily, 35–6
Walker, Kevin, 75
Wall Germander, 27
Warburg, Edmund Frederic, 18
Wardian Cases, 133
water mint, 233
weather, 32
Wells, Terry, 79–80
Welsh Mudwort, 24
West, Will, 132–3, 136
Western Spiked Speedwell, 38
Westerness, Highlands, 173, 276
Westwood, Brett, 27
and Copse Bindweed, 215, 218
and Ribbon-leaved Water-plantain, 261, 264
and Strapwort, 219, 220
and Tasteless Water-pepper, 209, 210, 212–3
and Triangular Club-rush, 224, 227
Westwood Great Pool, Droitwich, 261, 264
Wheeler, Belinda, 85
Whinlatter Pass, Cumbria, 159–63
Whispering Reeds, Hickling Broad, 139, 141
White Bryony, 243
whitebeams, 90–96, 98–101, 276
Common, 92
English, 95
Lancastrian, 144
Least, 28, 90–96
Ley’s, 28, 98–101
Motley’s, 100–101
Rock, 95
Swedish, 99
Thin-leaved, 94, 96
Tim’s, 91
Welsh, 94
Whiteford Burrows, Gower Peninsula, 41
Whittlesey Mere, 64
Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, 55, 56, 58–62
Whorled Solomon’s-seal, 29, 168–9
Wild Carrot, 119
Wild Gladiolus, 28, 30, 122–7
Wild Orchids of Britain (Summerhayes), 6
wild ox, 53
Wild Tulip, 31
Wildflower Society, 14–15, 47
Wildlife & Countryside Act (1981), 141
Wildlife Trusts, 220, 262
Williams, William, 24
willow trees, 68
willowherb, 154, 172
Wiltshire, England, 13, 27, 30
Winchester College, 13
Wood Vetch, 206
Woodbastwick Fen, Norfolk, 132–7
Woodbury, Devon, 19
Woodland Trust, 26
woodrushes
Fen, 63–8
Heath, 64
Woods, Ray, 35–6
Woodsia, 134
Alpine, 24
Oblong, 134
Woodwalton, Cambridgeshire, 64, 69, 102, 105–6
Worcestershire, England
Burlish Top, 27
Droitwich, 261, 264
Worcester, 209
Wyre Forest, 220
Workington, Cumbria, 121
woundworts, 84
Downy, 34
Wye Valley, 93, 203–8
Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, 220
Yarner Wood, Devon, 15
Yarrow Broomrape, 28, 119–121
Yellow Bird’s-nest, 7, 225
yellow composites, 12
Yellow Horned-poppy, 88
yellow-wort, 205
yew, 15
Yorkshire, England, 259, 261–2
Zubrowka, 129, 130, 131