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Alexanders
Flower
: Yellow-green umbel.
Fruit
: Globular, ridged, turning black on ripening.
Leaves
: Yellowish-green bluntly toothed, divided and glossy.
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Sweet Alyssum
Flower
: White, occasionally pale purple, 5-6mm, 4 petals.
Fruit
: Flattened, oval seed pods bearing two seeds each.
Leaves
: Narrow, greyish-green, untoothed and lanceolate, usually having many whitish-silvery hairs.
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Cultivated Apple
Flower
: Pinkish white in small clusters, 5 petals.
Fruit
: Large, fleshy and round. Can be green, yellow, pink, red or purple.
Leaves
: Deciduous, simple leaves growing alternate along the branches, serrated margins.
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Garden Asparagus
Flower
: Bell-shaped, pale green or yellowish flowers. Pollinated by bees.
Fruit
: A small, red berry, up to 1cm across. The seeds ripen in September and October.
Leaves
: A perennial herb with an erect, single stem. The shoots are sometimes known as 'spears'.
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Wood Avens
Flower
: The long stalked, star-shaped flowers appear in loose clusters and are up to 2 cm across in diameter. The sepals turn downwards as the fruit forms. The flowers are similar in appearance to those of St...
Fruit
: Hooked fruit forming a bur-like head, bronze-tipped.
Leaves
: The leaves are unstalked. The lower ones are pinnate with the terminal leaflet being much the largest. Stem leaves are smaller and trefoil.
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Lemon Balm
Flower
: Flower spikes. The small white, inconspicuous flowers reach 1.5cm in diameter. Pollinated by bees.
Fruit
: A brown seed capsule. In fruit from August to October.
Leaves
: A hairy perennial with lemon-green leaves. The oval, pointed leaves darken with age. The leaves are simple, wrinkly and toothed. They are arranged along the stems in opposite pairs.
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Common Barberry
Flower
: Hanging yellow flowers. Insect-pollinated.
Fruit
: Red, globular berries. The seeds ripen in September and October.
Leaves
: Deciduous shrub whose leaves appear from March to November. The leaves are simple, oval and spiny-toothed.
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Chinese Barberry
Flower
: Yellow or orange flowers, tinged with red. In clusters of up to 25 flowers.
Fruit
: Purplish-black, elliptical berries, up to 6mm long. In fruit from July to November.
Leaves
: A dense bush with glossy, dark green, spiny, obovate leaves. The leaves are pale beneath. The branches contain long spines. The Gagnepain's Barberry (Berberis gagnepainii) is a similar looking shrub b...
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Six-rowed Barley
Flower
: The flower is a pale green spikelet. The spikelets are arranged in groups of 3 rows along the stem of the plant (rachis). The similar-looking Two-Rowed Barley (Hordeum distinchon) are arranged in grou...
Fruit
: An oval caryopsis, 7-10mm long and 2-3mm wide.
Leaves
: An annual grass species with long linear stems. The leaves are alternate.
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Two-rowed Barley
Flower
: Green spikes with awns of varying lengths depending on the exact species.
Fruit
: A single-seeded dry fruit, or grain, technically called a caryopsis.
Leaves
: An annual crop of the grass family. Barley has grass-like leaves. Green, long and linear.
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Wall Barley
Flower
: Bristly flower spikes reaching up to 10cm in length, although seldom that long. Wind pollinated.
Fruit
: A flattened, globular caryopsis. A caryopsis is a type of one-seeded, dry fruit, typical of grasses and cereal crops.
Leaves
: An annual species of grass with long, stiff awns. The awns reach 3cm in length. The leaves also have long basal auricles. The sheaths are flat and hairy. This is the commonest species of Barley which ...
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Red Bartsia
Flower
: Pink-purple one-sided flower spike, lower lip of flowers are 3-lobed.
Fruit
: Hairy capsules. Seeds are ridged and oval.
Leaves
: Narrow and hairy opposite leaves which are also lanceolate and toothed.
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Wild Basil
Flower
: The lilac, mauve, purple or pink flowers are in whorls and are found mostly at the top of the stems. 2-lipped. 4 or 5 lobed. Insect-pollinated.
Fruit
: A one-seeded nutlet. The seeds ripen in August and September.
Leaves
: Pointed, oval and slightly blunt-toothed, apple green leaves with prominent curved veins. Leaves are either stalkless or short-stalked. Square stems. A hairy perennial.
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Bearsbreech
Flower
: Tall spike of white flowers with purple veins.
Fruit
: An ovoid capsule which contains 2-4 black seeds.
Leaves
: Glossy green leaves, growing up to 60cm in length. The leaves are also pinnate with deep lobes, pointed but not spiny. A similar species called Spiny Bearsbreech (Acanthus spinosus) exists but is more...
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Hedge Bedstraw
Flower
: Small clusters of white flowers which are pointed, 2-5mm. 4 stamens.
Fruit
: Small, wrinked nutlets. No bristles present.
Leaves
: 6 to 8 stalked leaves in whorls. Elliptical, untoothed and pointed with a small bristles at the tips.
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Adria Bellflower
Flower
: Many violet blue, bell-shaped flowers, each is 2cm in diameter. Adria Bellflower looks quite similar to Trailing Bellflower (Campanula poscharskyana) but is darker in colour. The flowers of Adria Bell...
Fruit
: A capsule, containing numerous seeds.
Leaves
: The mid-green leaves are heart-shaped with jaggedly toothed margins. Perennial evergreen.
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Field Bindweed
Flower
: Pink with 5 white stripes, up to 2.5cm, trumpet-shaped.
Fruit
: An oval or roundish capsule containing 2 seeds, but sometimes 1-4.
Leaves
: Stalked, arrow-shaped, alternate, sharp-tipped and hairs are sparse.
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Hairy Bindweed
Flower
: Pink with 5 distinct white stripes, up to 7cm, trumpet-shaped.
Fruit
: 1 to 4 seeded egg-shaped capsules.
Leaves
: Pointed and usually arrow-shaped. Leaf stalks are either glabrous or slightly hairy.
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Hedge Bindweed
Flower
: Usually pure white but occasionally pink with 5 white stripes, up to 6cm, trumpet-shaped. Sepals often purple tinged and only half-covered by two large bracts. Often hybridizes with Hedge Bindweed mak...
Fruit
: A capsule which contains 1 to 4 seeds, rarely more than 1cm long.
Leaves
: Long stalked, arrow-shaped leaves and sharp-tipped, not hairy. The bases of the leaves have angled lobes.
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Large Bindweed
Flower
: White but occasionally pale pink with 5 white stripes, up to 9cm, trumpet-shaped. Bracts completely covering the sepals unlike Hedge Bindweed, however Large Bindweed often hybridizes with Hedge Bindwe...
Fruit
: Light brown capsules, usually containing 2 seeds.
Leaves
: Arrow-shaped with a sharp tip, alternate and long-stalked. The bases of the leaves have V-shaped angular lobes.
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Birdsfoot
Flower
: Pale pink with darker pink streaks. The wings of the flowers are white and the keels are yellow.
Fruit
: Curved, beaded, roundish and hairless seedpods with up to 9 segments. When 2 or 3 of the seedpods are together the seedpods resemble birds feet which is where Birdsfoot gets its name from.
Leaves
: An sprawling annual flower with 7 to 13 pairs of oblong leaflets per leaf.
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Amphibious Bistort
Flower
: Pink compact spike, 5 petals.
Fruit
: Dark brown to black, round, flattened achene.
Leaves
: The alternate leaves are short-stalked and with tapered bases. The leaf blades are long, narrow, hairy and sometimes tinged red. The submerged leaves are slightly different; they are hairless, have ro...
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Hairy Bittercress
Flower
: Tiny and forming clusters at the top. 4 white petals with 4 yellow stamens. Counting the number of stamens is perhaps the most reliable way to distinguish this flower from the almost identical Wavy Bi...
Fruit
: Long and slender seed pods that split open when ripe.
Leaves
: Basal rosette, anything up to 9 inches long. Compound leaves with alternate leaflets that have one leaf per node along the main upright stem. The leaves persist throughout the winter months.
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Black-eyed Susan
Flower
: The colour of the flowers are variable, however golden yellow is the usual colour. Orange, red, brown and sometimes bicoloured flowers may also be seen. The flowers are daisy-like and up to 10cm (4 in...
Fruit
: The fruit is seed-like (an achene). The seeds ripen from August to October.
Leaves
: A biennial or perennial with alternate leaves. The leaves are mainly basal leaves and toothed. They are narrow and lance-shaped, up to 18cm (9 inches) long. The leaves are covered in coarse hairs. Bla...
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Bleeding Heart
Flower
: 2-spurred pinkish-purple, heart-shaped, pendant flowers (up to 2.5cm long) on a leafless stem. Flowers are in clusters of 5 to 15. Flowers have 2 sepals and 6 stamens in groups of 2's.
Fruit
: An elongated capsule.
Leaves
: Finely divided, alternate, greyish-green, fern-like leaves. A deciduous perennial.
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