_MICRO BOTANICS
_ A SELECTION OF VEGETATION PHOTOGRAPHED ON 04/06/17 (SPRING/SUMMER) AT EAVES WOOD, SILVERDALE
_ Aegopodium podagraria L. (Ground elder)
_ Emerging young ground elder showing green foliage
_ Taxus bacata (Yew)
_ Rich green summer growth
_ Prunus avium (Wild cherry)
_ Full petal spread, stamens surrounding stigma showing which hold the pollen
_ Geum urbanum (Wood avens)
_ Yellow flowers appear on slender stems from May to August and are a good source of nectar
_ Asplenium scolopendrium (Hearts tongue fern)
_ An evergreen fern forming a rosette of arching, rich green, strap-shaped fronds
_ Allium ursinum (Ramsons, Wild garlic)
_ The plant has finished flowering and is now displaying bulbills
_ Galium odoratum (Sweet woodruf)
_ A wide mat of erect stems, bearing whorls of bright green, lance-shaped leaves, hay-scented when dry, with terminal clusters of small white, starry flowers
_ Fagus sylvatica (Beech)
_ Emerging young beech showing green summer foliage
_ Acer pseudoplatanus (Sycamore)
_ Saplings rising from the woodland floor
_ Prunus avium (Wild cherry)
_ Full petal spread, stamens surrounding stigma showing which hold the pollen
_ Geranium robertianum (Herb robert)
_ Forming a rosette of deeply dissected, aromatic leaves, with large, open sprays of pale pink flowers
_ Briza media (Quaking grass)
_ small globules hang from thin stems
_ Inonotus dryadeus (Oak bracket)
_ Large annual brackets layered on fallen Oak
_ Physalis alkekengi var. franchetti (Chinese Lantern)
_ Ovate green leaves showing, with small white flowers coming in summer and lantern like leaves encapsulating fruits in winter