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- 3. A short-lived herb with small compound leaves, usually with three toothed leaflets, though if you find one with four, you're very lucky! The very small, fragrant flowers are crowded into dense, nearly spherical heads, or spikes and can be white, pink, red, or yellow.
- 6. Most commonly red flowers with four to six showy petals, tall thin stems with fine hairs, and lobed or dissected leaves. You commonly find them in meadows or on people's lapels in November.
- 9. Each flower has a rosette of small, thin white petals surrounding a bright yellow centre. These are supported by a single stem which grows from a group of dark green rounded leaves. The petals can sometimes be tinged with pink.
- 13. (Pinus) Evergreen conifers with thick bark, needle-like leaves, and cones. They are woody plants that can grow as trees or shrubs.
- 14. Flowers with bright yellow petals that grow on long stalks. They usually have five glossy yellow petals that seem to glow, but some have more. You can find them in grassy fields most commonly.
- 17. (6,5) A striking, medium-sized deciduous tree. When mature they can reach 30m in height, forming a light canopy with elegant, drooping branches. The white bark sheds layers like tissue paper and becomes black and rugged at the base. As the trees mature, the bark develops dark, diamond-shaped fissures.
- 18. These flowers are usually deep violet-blue in colour, they are bell-shaped with six petals and up-turned tips. These sweet-smelling flowers nod or droop to one side of the flowering stem (known as an inflorescence) and have creamy white-coloured pollen inside. Some flowers can be white or pink, and you can see them most commonly in woodlands..
- 20. These flowers are durable yet delicate, fluffy, and fragrant. They are herbaceous perennials, meaning the roots survive throughout the year resulting in fresh blooms each spring and summer, though you can see them throughput the year as they are one of the most popular flowers for bouquets.
- 22. This plant is used as a hedging plant. Mature trees can reach a height of 15m and are characterised by their dense, thorny habit, though they can grow as a small tree with a single stem. The bark is brown-grey, knotted and fissured, and twigs are slender and brown and covered in thorns. Flowers are highly scented, white or occasionally pink with five petals, and grow in flat-topped clusters.
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- 1. Small to medium-sized evergreen trees with shiny, dark green leaves and bright red berries. The leaves are often spiky, but those on older trees or higher branches are less so. Very common around Christmas.
- 2. The bark of this tree is smooth, thin and grey, often with slight horizontal etchings. The reddish brown, torpedo-shaped leaf buds form on short stalks and have a distinctive criss-cross pattern. Look out for the edges of the copper coloured leaves which are hairy. Triangular nuts form in prickly four-lobed seed cases.
- 4. (Digitalis purpurea) is a tall plant with tube-shaped flowers that grow in spikes. It's a common plant in the UK and can be found in gardens, woodlands, and along roadsides. They are most commonly a pinkish purple flower which can grow up to 2m tall, and are an important source of pollen for bees.
- 5. They have bell-shaped white flowers and are around 7–15cm tall. These flowers are a sign that spring is on the way. They favour damp soil and are often found in broadleaved woodland. They are not native to the UK, although it's unclear when they were introduced.
- 7. A small, perennial woodland plant that grows no more than 10cm high and can flower from December through to May. their leaves are wrinkly with hairy undersides, forming a rosette at the plant's base. Their flowers are pale to deep yellow with darker yellow-orange centres.
- 8. Erect flowers with long, broad, parallel-veined leaves and a cup-shaped, single or double flower at the tip of the stem. Colours of the flowers can range through almost all colours of the rainbow, and are famously grown in Holland.
- 10. (Helianthusannuus) Annual herbs with large flower heads, tall hairy stems, and broad leaves. They are known for their ability to track the sun's rays across the sky.
- 11. This flower has large, heart-shaped leaves. The flowers have five petals, the fifth with a spur. They are most commonly deep purple, blue, or lavender. They also can be white, yellow, reddish purple, and a shade of one of these colours is the same as this flower.
- 12. Small evergreen shrubs that carpet the ground and produce masses of tiny bell-like blooms, densely packed onto small flower spikes. These come in a choice of colours, from purple to mauve, pink, red and white.
- 15. Their stems are usually prickly and their glossy, green leaves have toothed edges. The flowers vary in size and shape. They burst with colours ranging from pastel pink, peach, and cream, to vibrant yellow, orange, and red.
- 16. Non-flowering plants with roots, stems, and leaves that reproduce by spores. It emerges from the ground as a fiddlehead, a tightly coiled spiral. These plants are from an ancient group of plants that are older than most land animals and dinosaurs.
- 19. A large, deciduous tree growing up to 20–40m tall. They have distinctive round-lobed leaves with short leaf stalks(petioles), and their famous capped nuts.
- 21. A woody, evergreen vine with glossy leaves that can grow on walls, trees, and the ground. It has small yellow-green flowers and black berries.