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.

Small scabious

Mullein

Common toadflax

Downy ragwort

Teasel

Water forget-me-not

Pink campion

St John’s wort

Downy ragwort

Meadowsweet

Plantago

Creeping buttercup

Mint

Old man’s beard

Common reed

Hornbeam

Skullcap

Autumn gentian

Birdsfoot trefoil

Cranesbill

Welted thistle

Ox eye daisy

Small scabious seed head

Mullein

Mint

Bryony

Bistort

Moss

White clover

Dandelion

Spiny restharrow

Groundsel

Willow

Old man’s beard

St John’s wort

Annual speedwell

Cornflower

Mullein

American willow herb

Bramble

Agrimony

Gypsy wort

Angelica

Fleabane

Hawkweed sp.

Scarlet pimpernel

Bittersweet

Dandelion

Angelica

Selfheal

Cut-leaved cranesbill

Broad-leaved willow herb

Round leaved fluellen

Hawkweed

Bindweed and broad leaf willow herb

Spear thistle

Reedmace

Marjoram

Prickly sow-thistle

Bittersweet

Hawkweed sp.

Fleabane and mint

Old man’s beard

Common poppy

Slender vetch

Spear thistle

Common reed

Rough chervil

Downy ragwort

Yellow wort

Corn marigold