flower hunt

I've decided to post a few of my old photographs that i didn't manage to post whilst they were in flower. Blackthorn flowering perio...

I'm in London writing up my dissertation for my masters. London's pretty quiet on the flower front so i think i'll have problems...

The field scabious has petals with four unequal sized lobes. It could be confused with Devil's Bit Scabious but this species has four lo...

Can anyone help me with the identification of this species? I think it could this be the larvae of a glow-worm but i'm not sure. Sorry a...

As it's name suggests this is a pretty little species that comes out in the Autumn. Right now is a great time to go looking for them, th...

This is a parasitic plant that grows on plants such as heather and clover. It looks like red string trailing across the ground. It's see...

Another beautiful orchid. It's so tiny i almost didn't see it amongst the grasses but when you learn what to look for they seem to b...

Ok, so i've got figwort in twice. But i really like this picture, and i've misplaced my camera and haven't had a chance to take ...

This species can become a real problem in chalk grassland. It's a big tough grass that is undesirable to grazing animals and it can domi...

Like a daisy the flower is made up of a compound yellow/green head only without the ray florets round the edge. When the plant is crushed it...

The red star thistle is marked as vulnerable by the IUCN and it is apparantly confined to Sussex coastal areas in the UK although the NBN ga...

If you don't know, sedges look a lot like grasses with long green leaves. However, grasses have leaves in two ranks up the stem (i.e. al...

The flowers of this plant are awesome! Look how strange and sculpted they look. I love the way they almost look like hairy maltesers (it...

The leaves of this plant are arranged in whorls round the stem which you might be able to make out in the background of this photo, slightly...

Ok, so officially this picture doesn't count because it's not a picture of a flower but of the fruit. But i won't tell anyone if...