common wild plant names
Some common wild plant names…
Bilberry - Blueberry / Whortleberry
Bird’s Foot Trefoil - Eggs-and-Bacon / Hens and Chickens / Dutchman’s Clogs
Biting Stonecrop - Wall Pepper / Golden-carpet / Gold Moss
Bluebell - Wild Hyacinth
Bogbean - Buckbean
Borage - Bugloss / Bee Bread / Bee Plant
Bramble - Blackberry
Burnt-tip Orchid - Dwarf Orchid
Charlock - Wild Mustard
Chicory - Endive
Coltsfoot - Coughwort / Horsehoof
Columbine - Granny’s Night-cap / Granny’s Bonnet
Common Comfrey - Knit-bone / Bone-set
Common Daisy - Bruisewort
Common Knapweed - Hardheads
Common Poppy - Field Poppy
Common Reedmace - Bulrush
Common St.John’s Wort - Perforate St.John’s Wort
Common Toadflax - Butter and Eggs
Common Thistle - Spear Thistle
Common Vetch - Tare
Cow Parsley - Queen Anne’s Lace / Lady’s Lace / Fairy Lace / Hedge Parsley
Crow Garlic - Wild Onion
Dandelion - Blowball
Deadly Nightshade - Devil’s Herb / Enchanter’s Nightshade / Sorcerer’s Herb
Fairy Flax - Purging Flax
Fat Hen - Common Goosefoot
Felwort - Autumn Gentian
Feverfew - Bachelor’s Buttons / Flirtwort
Field Scabious - Blue Bonnets / Blue Buttons / Pincushion Flower
Field Wood-rush - Good Friday Cross
Fennel - Spigel
Foxglove - Dead Man’s Bells / Fairy Thimbles / Witches Thimbles
Fritillary - Snake’s Head
Germander Speedwell - Bird’s Eye / Farewell
Goat’s-beard - Johnny-go-to-bed-at-noon
Good King Henry - English Mercury / Goosefoot
Goosegrass - Cleavers
Gorse - Furze / Whin
Great Mullein - Aaron’s Rod / Donkey’s Ear / Adam’s Flannel / Hare’s-beard
Greater Celandine - Swallow-wort
Greater Plantain - Rat’s Tail Plantain / White Man’s Footprint / Waybread
Greater Stitchwort - Poppers / Brassy Buttons / Poor-man’s-buttonhole
Ground Elder - Goutweed
Hedge Bindweed - Bellbine
Herb Bennet - Wood Avens / Clove Root
Honeysuckle - Woodbine
Indian Balsam - Policeman’s Helmet
Lady’s Mantle - Alchemilla
Lady’s Smock - Cuckooflower / Fairy Flower / Milkmaids
Lesser Celandine - Pilewort
Lesser Trefoil - Suckling Clover
Ling - Heather
Lords-and-Ladies - Cuckoo-pint / Jack-in-the-Pulpit / Devils and Angels /Cows and Bulls / Wild Arum
Lucerne - Alfalfa
Lungwort - Spotted Dog
Jerusalem Cowslip
Marsh Marigold - Kingcup / Mayflower / May-blobs
Marsh Samphire - Glasswort
Meadow Saffron - Naked Ladies
Meadowsweet - Meadwort / Queen of the Meadows / Meadsweet Meadow Vetchling - Yellow Vetchling
Monkshood - Friar’s Cap / Blue Rocket
Nodding Thistle - Musk Thistle
Pennyroyal - Pudding Grass
Pignut - Earthnut
Persicaria - Redshank
Ox-eye Daisy - Moon Daisy / Dog Daisy
Oysterplant - Northern Shorewort
Ramsons - Wild Garlic / Stink Bombs / Stinking Nanny
Red Valerian - Spur Valerian
Rosebay Willow-herb - Fireweed / Bombweed
Sea beet - Wild Beet
Selfheal - Woundwort / Heal-all / Carpenter’s Herb
Soapwort - Bouncing Bett
Stinking Iris - Roast Beef Plant
Tall Melitot - Golden Melitot
Thrift - Sea Pink / Ladies’ Cushion / Cliff Clover
Townhall Clock - Moschatel
Traveller’s Joy - Old Man’s Beard
Valerian - Garden Heliotrope / Cat’s Valerian
Viper’s Bugloss - Blue Devil / Blue Weed
Wall Pennywort - Navelwort
Weld - Dyer’s Greenweed / Dyer’s Rocket
White Clover - Dutch Clover / Bee-bread
Wild Angelica - Jack-jump-About
Wild Daffodil - Lent Lily / Lenten Lily / Easter Lilly
Wild Pansy - Heartsease / Johnny pump-up
Witch Hazel - Winterbloom / Spotted Alder
Woad - Dyer’s Weed
Wood Anemone - Windflower
Wood Avens - Herb Bennet
Wood Betony - Bishopswort
Woodruff - Kiss-me-quick
Woody Nightshade - Bittersweet
Yarrow - Poor Man’s Pepper, Milfoil, Staunchweed, Bloodwort, Soldier’s Woundwort Yellow Archangel - Yellow Dead-nettle
Yellow Flag - Yellow Iris / Jacob’s Sword
Yellow Rattle - Hay Rattle
Yellow Water-Lily - Brandy Bottle
