Welcome to Hairy Calyx
A close-up on wild flowers
Seasonal pictures: Hazel (Corylus avellana),
and Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis).
This website illustrates many of the wildflowers found in the British Isles.
Close-up photographs show details which would not normally be noticed by a casual glance,
such as veins or patterns on the petals, and hairs on the leaves, stalks, and calyx.
Each species has its own web page, containing a set of photos showing the whole plant
and details of its individual features, usually with showy close-ups of the flowers.
Botanical features may also be outlined to aid classification.
Not all the pages on this website yet have all the ingredients listed above:
click here
to see an example of a completed web page.
Click here to see a text list of plants currently
featured in this website,
and here to see thumbnail pictures of the featured flowers
(this page may take a while to download).
To find a flower via its family, click here
for a text list of families, and here
for a picture-based list of families.
To see examples of flowers with a hairy calyx, click here.
Click here for a list of plants
of current interest (mid-late January 2012).
Also click here for flowers featured in Nature Notes
in The Times.
This website also includes pages featuring plants found in particular sites.
At present it lists plants from Farnham Park,
Eelmoor Marsh SSSI,
Winkworth Arboretum,
and Caesar's Camp.
To feed back comments on this website, please click here.
For Rowledge Ladies cricket, click here
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