Welcome to Hairy Calyx

A close-up on wild flowers

Water Mint Toadflax
Seasonal pictures: Water Mint (Mentha aquatica), and Common Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris).

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).

Click here for a list of plants which are currently in flower (early September 2010).
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, and Winkworth Arboretum.

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