What bloomed in August?

 

Autumn gentian

August brought drier weather but there were plenty of flowers in bloom especially on the chalkier  grasslands. However, there were also some beautiful later flowering wetland species plus a good sprinkling of arable flowering weeds. This year has been exceptional for the sheer quantity of flowering plants but my favourite this year has to be the Autumn gentian. I had collected some seed many years ago from a roadside, it was a tiny amount and, to be honest, I had given up thinking I’d ever see it grow on the Wimpole chalk grasslands but… there it was, with hundreds and hundreds of other ones by the Folly – it seems this spot was a good choice for this species.

White clover

Rough chervil

Bittersweet

Creeping buttercup

Angelica

Scarlet pimpernel

Common reed

Mint

Marjoram

Downy ragwort

Skullcap

American willow herb

Teasel

Water forget-me-not

Mullein

Pink campion

Common reed

Ox eye daisy

Hawkweed sp.

Meadowsweet

Gypsy wort

Old man’s beard

Bittersweet

Bramble

Plantago

Autumn gentian

Spear thistle

Agrimony

Prickly sow-thistle

Moss

Dandelion

St John’s wort

Dandelion

Mullein

Cranesbill

Slender vetch

Downy ragwort

Hawkweed sp.

Downy ragwort

Mullein

Common toadflax

Fleabane and mint

Cornflower

Old man’s beard

Yellow wort

Annual speedwell

Angelica

St John’s wort

Welted thistle

Selfheal

Old man’s beard

Mint

Cut-leaved cranesbill

Spiny restharrow

Small scabious seed head

Bindweed and broad leaf willow herb

Small scabious

Hornbeam

Birdsfoot trefoil

Groundsel

Hawkweed

Spear thistle

Common poppy

Willow

Broad-leaved willow herb

Reedmace

Bryony

Bistort

Corn marigold

Fleabane

Round leaved fluellen