Flowers, Trees, Grasses

Wild Flowers of Stoke Newington Reservoirs & Woodberry Wetlands

• Taxonomy by the National Herbarium (British Museum).

• Trees, Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns are at the end of the list.

Vernacular name:

Traveller’s Joy (Old man’s beard)

Wood Anemone

Stream Water Crowfoot (Ranunculus penicillatus)

Meadow Buttercup

Creeping Buttercup

Bulbous Buttercup

Lesser Celandine

Marsh-marigold (Kingcup)

White Water-lily

Common Poppy

Common Fumitory

Lady’s Smock (Cuckooflower)

Hairy Bittercress

Horseradish

Hedge Mustard

Garlic Mustard (Jack-by-the-hedge)

Charlock

Annual Wall Rocket

Shepherd’s Purse

Swine-cress

Eastern Rocket

Radish

Weld (Dyer's Rocket)

Sweet Violet

Dog Violet

White Campion

Red Campion

Ragged Robin

Mouse-ear

Chickweed

Perforate St. John's Wort

Square-stalked St. John’s Wort

Redleg

Japanese Knotweed

Common Mallow

Herb-Robert

Meadow Cranesbill

Hedgerow Cranesbill

Cutleaved Cranesbill

Dovesfoot Cranesbill

Orange Balsam

Gorse

Lucerne

Black Medick

Red Clover

Hare's-foot Clover

White Clover

Ribbed Melilot

Common Birdsfoot Trefoil (folk name Eggs and Bacon)

Lesser Trefoil

Hairy Tare

Goat's-rue

Tufted Vetch

Meadow Vetchling

Broad-leaved Everlasting Pea

Meadowsweet

Agrimony

Salad Burnet

Silverweed

Creeping Cinquefoil

Bramble / Blackberry

Herb Bennet (Wood Avens)

Dog rose

Rigid Hornwort

Purple Loosestrife

Great Willowherb

American Willowherb

Rosebay Willowherb

Hemlock

Lesser Water Parsnip (Berula erecta)

Stone Parsley

Ground Elder

Pignut

Chervil

Cow Parsley (Queen Anne’s Lace)

Fennel

Common (Tubular) Water Dropwort

Hemlock Water Dropwort

River Water Dropwort (Oenanthe fluviatilis)

Hogweed

Wild Carrot

Ivy

Honeysuckle

Snowberry

Cleavers (Goosegrass)

Lady's Bedstraw

Hedge Bedstraw

Teasel

Canadian Goldenrod

Daisy

Ox-eye Daisy

Feverfew

Yarrow

Michaelmas Daisy

Common Fleabane

Coltsfoot

Scentless Mayweed

Pineappleweed

Tansy

Mugwort

Groundsel

Lesser Burdock

Common Ragwort

Creeping Thistle

Spear Thistle

Smooth Hawksbeard

Bristly Oxtongue

Hawkweed Oxtongue

Common Catsear

Nipplewort

Prickly Lettuce

Dandelion

Perennial Sow-thistle

Prickly Sow-thistle

Smooth Sow-thistle

Goatsbeard

Primrose

Cowslip

Creeping Jenny

Scarlet Pimpernel (Poor Man's Weatherglass)

Greater Periwinkle

Buddleia

Borage

Green Alkanet

Russian Comfrey

Field Bindweed

Hedge Bindweed

Large Bindweed

Woody Nightshade (Bittersweet)

Black Nightshade

Great Mullein

Common Toadflax

Foxglove

Common Field Speedwell

Water Mint

Ground Ivy

Skullcap

Selfheal

Hedge Woundwort

White Dead-nettle

Red Dead-nettle

Black Horehound

Ribwort Plantain

Greater Plantain

Knotgrass

Broad-leaved Dock

Curled Dock

Wood (Red-veined) Dock

Sun Spurge

Petty Spurge

Annual Mercury

Common (Stinging) Nettle

Yellow Iris (Yellow Flag)

Stinking Iris (Gladdon)

Snowdrop

Grape Hyacinth

Bluebell

Snake's-head Fritillary

Chives

Trees:

Lime

Horse Chestnut

Sycamore

London Plane

Holly

Blackthorn

Wild Cherry

Rowan (Mountain Ash)

Swedish Whitebeam

Hawthorn

Dogwood

Elder

Guelder-rose

Ash

Silver Birch

Hazel

Pedunculate Oak (including one of Hackney's oldest)

Holm Oak

Crack Willow

White Willow

Goat Willow

Osier

Aspen

Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns:

Reedmace (Bulrush)

Unbranched Bur-reed (Sparganium emersum)

Common (Lesser) Duckweed

Great Duckweed

Common Reed

Meadow Foxtail

Black Grass

Timothy

Creeping Bent

Wood Small-reed

Yorkshire Fog

Tufted Hair-grass

False Oat-grass

Reed Sweet-grass

Crested Dogstail

Cocksfoot

Annual Meadow-grass

Rough Meadow-grass

Fern Grass

Squirreltail Fescue

Perennial Rye-grass

Barren Brome

Soft Brome

Common Couch

Wall Barley

Grey Sedge

Hairy Sedge

Pendulous Sedge

Lesser Pond Sedge

Hartstongue

Wall-rue

Black Spleenwort

Bracken

Field Horsetail

With thanks to Keith Cavanagh, Paul Robertson, Tony Butler and Joan Yeadon.