This page is still under construction. It by no means features every plant species I've encountered but includes the more interesting (to me at least) species, or perhaps less well-known/more obscure species.
Ophoglossaceae
Adder's Tongue - Dawlish Warren 12/8/20.
Small Adder's-tongue - Dawlish Warren 1/5/21.
Osmundaceae
Royal Fern - Colaton Raleigh Common 24/6/21.
Aspleniaceae
Hart's-tongue Fern - Dawlish 17/8/20.
Black Spleenwort - Wright's Lane, Exmouth 9/5/21.
Maidenhair Spleenwort - Topsham.
Wall Rue - Berry Head 1/6/21.
Polypodiaceae
Intermediate Polypody - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.
Paperveraceae
Long-headed Poppy - Mudbank 25/7/20.
Yellow-horned Poppy - Slapton Ley 28/10/20.
White-ramping Fumitory - Foxholes, Exmouth 22/6/21.
White-ramping Fumitory - Hawkerland 7/6/21.
Common-ramping Fumitory - Gore Lane, Exmouth 12/4/21.
Common Fumitory - Hertslock, Berks 29/5/21.
Ranunculaceae
Orange-peel Clematis - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.
Small-flowered Buttercup - Sandy Bay, Exmouth 5/5/21. Masses on short turf around caravans.
Corn Buttercup - Fivehead Arable Fields 4/7/21.
Lesser Spearwort - Squabmoor 24/7/20.
Greater Spearwort - Stover CP 8/7/20. 2-3 feet tall with large flowers.
Lesser Celandine - Orcombe Point 26/2/21.
Pasque Flower - Hartslock, Berks 29/5/21.
Saxifragaceae
Rue-leaved Saxifrage - Dawlish Warren 1/4/21.
Crassulaceae
Mossy Stonecrop - Dawlish Warren 1/4/21.
Biting Stonecrop - The Maer, Exmouth 22/6/21.
White Stonecrop - Exmouth seafront 28/6/20,
English Stonecrop - Berry Head 17/7/21.
Fabaceae
Kidney Vetch - Sandy Bay, Exmouth 5/5/21.
Horseshoe Vetch - Hartslock, Berks 29/5/21.
Bird's-foot Trefoil - Orcombe Point, Exmouth.
Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil - Bystock, Exmouth 27/6/20.
Bird's-foot - Dawlish Warren 1/5/21.
Tufted Vetch - Blackhill Quarry 5/7/20.
Hairy Tare - between Mudbank and West Lodge, Exmouth 24/4/21.
Smooth Tare - Dinan Way, Exmouth 3/6/21.
Slender Tare - Fivehead, Somerset 4/7/21.
Bush Vetch - Woodbury Common (golf course) 5/7/20.
Common Vetch - cycle path, Exmouth 1/6/21.
Bitter Vetch - Woodbury Park 25/4/21.
Bithynian Vetch - Sandy Bay, Exmouth 22/5/21.
Bithynian Vetch - cycle path, Exmouth 1/6/21.
Meadow Vetchling - Mudbank 25/7/20.
Yellow Vetchling - Seaton seafront 13/6/21.
Narrow-leaved Everlasting Pea - Somerset Levels 4/7/21.
Broad-leaved Everlasting Pea - The Maer, Exmouth.
Grass Vetchling - Dinan Way, Exmouth 3/6/21.
Rest Harrow - The Maer, Exmouth 22/6/21.
Small Restharrow - Berry Head 17/7/21.
Ribbed or Tall Melliot - Phear Park 3/7/20.
Black Medick - Mudbank 4/7/20.
Lucerne - The Maer, Exmouth 30/6/21.
Toothed Medick - The Maer 23/5/21.
Spotted Medick - Exmouth seafront 14/4/21.
Bird's-foot Clover - Sandy Bay 5/5/21.
White Clover - Orcombe Point.
Alsike Clover - Imperial rec 15/6/21.
Clustered Clover - Exmouth cricket pitch 23/5/21.
Suffocated Clover - The Maer 11/5/21.
Strawberry Clover - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20. And below.
Strawberry Clover - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.
Hop Trefoil - Otter Cliffs 13/7/20.
Lesser Trefoil - Dawlish Warren 1/5/21.
Slender Trefoil - Sandy Bay 5/5/21.
Red Clover - Orcombe Point 13/5/21.
Zig-Zag Clover - Woodbury Common (golf course) 5/7/20.
Crimson Clover - Duckpond, Exmouth 2/6/21.
Knotted Clover - Exmouth seafront 2/6/21.
Rough Clover - Exmouth seafront 1/8/20.
Hare's-foot Clover - Mudbank 25/7/20.
Subterranean Clover - Exmouth seafront 2/5/21.
Reversed Clover - near Fethiye, Turkey April 2022.
Woolly Clover - near Fethiye, Turkey April 2022.
Tree Lupin - The Maer, Exmouth 27/5/21.
Broom - Seaton 31/7/20.
Dyer's Greenweed - near Painswick, Cotswolds 28/7/21.
Petty Whin - Aylesbeare Common 9/7/21.
Gorse - Bicton Common 23/7/20.
Sanfoin - Martin Down, Hants 26/6/21.
Polygalaceae
Common Milkwort - Bystock 3/6/21. Leaves alternate along entire stem.
Heath Milkwort - Bicton Common 25/6/20 - lower leaves paired, upper leaves alternate - checked.
Rosaceae
Meadowsweet - Chudleigh 23/6/20.
Silverweed - Exminster Marshes 6/7/20.
Tormentil.
Creeping Cinquefoil - Mudbank 30/7/20.
Wood Avens - Foxholes, Exmouth 23/5/21.
Common Agrimony - Orcombe Point, Exmouth June 2020.
Salad Burnet (female flowers) - Liverton trading estate, Exmouth 11/6/21.
Salad Burnet - Hartslock, Berks 29/5/21.
Burnet Rose Rosa pimpinellifolia - Kenfig, Wales 10/7/21.
Presumed Bearberry Cotoneaster - near Yelverton 19/6/21.
Black-grape Cotoneaster Cotoneaster ignotus - East Budleigh Common 10/6/21.
Urticaceae
Small Nettle - Mudbank, Exmouth 25/7/20.
Pellitory-of -the -Wall - Clyst St Mary 2/7/20.
Euphorbiaceae
Dog's Mercury - near East Budleigh Common 13/3/21.
Sun Spurge Euphorbia helioscopia - Exmouth.
Caper Spurge - Mudbank 4/7/20.
Dwarf Spurge - Fivehead, Somerset 4/7/21.
Petty Spurge - Duckaller Farm, Dawlish 11/7/20.
Portland Spurge - The Maer, Exmouth 22/6/21.
Sea Spurge - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.
Wood Spurge - near East Budleigh Common 28/3/21.
Broad-leaved Spurge - Fivehead, Somerset 4/7/21. And below.
Violaceae
Sweet Violet - Courtlands, Exmouth 22/1/21.
Common Dog-violet - Bystock 27/3/21 (and below). White spur, pointed sepals.
Early Dog-violet - East Budleigh Common 15/3/21 (and below).
Pale Dog-violet - Aylesbeare Common 8/5/21.
Pale Dog-violets - Aylesbeare Common 8/5/21.
Hairy Violet - Martin Down, Hants 4/6/21. And below.
Field Pansy - Orcombe Point, Exmouth.
Sand Pansy - Braunton Burrows 9/7/20.
Linaceae
Pale Flax - Orcombe Point 26/7/20.
Fairy Flax - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.
Allseed Radiola linoides - Aylesbeare Common 9/7/21.
Hypericaceae
Tutsan - Bystock 2/7/20.
Stinking Tutsan - Dawlish 17/8/20. Vaguely goat-like smell when crushed.
Perforate St John's Wort - Mudbank 3/7/20. Black dots on leaf edges. Leaf perforations. Ridged stem.
Perforate St John's Wort - Mudbank 2/8/20. And below.
Imperforate St John's Wort - Blackhill Quarry 12/7/20.
Imperforate St John's Wort - square stem.
Imperforate St John's Wort - underside of leaf - netted veins, no perforations.
Square-stalked St John's Wort (and 2 photos below) - Stover CP 14/7/20.
Stalk - square with 'wings'.
Leaf - perforate and with black spots along edges.
Trailing St John's Wort - East Budleigh Common 12/7/20. Trailing flat to the ground (prostrate).
Trailing St John's Wort - Cold East Cross, Dartmoor 14/7/20.
Pale St John's Wort - Berry Head 17/7/21. And 2 photos below.
Slender St John's Wort - Blackhill Quarry 25/6/20.
Slender St John's Wort - Blackhill Quarry 25/6/20. Heart-shaped leaves clasp stem.
Slender St John's Wort - Blackhill Quarry 25/6/20. Red marks on underside of petals.
Marsh St John's Wort - Bicton Common June 2020.
Geraniaceae
Round-leaved Crane's-bill - Mudbank, Exmouth 7/5/21.
Cut-leaved Crane's-bill - Orcombe Point 22/5/21. Very common in Exmouth.
Dove's-foot Crane's-bill - Dawlish Warren 8/4/21.
Dove's-foot Crane's-bill - Exmouth seafront 5/4/21.
Shining Crane's-bill - Exmouth seafront 5/4/21.
Bloody Crane's-bill - Great Orme, Wales 25/7/22.
Druce's Crane's-bill - Somerset Level 4/7/21. A hybrid and garden escape.
Dusky Crane's-bill - Staverton 31/5/21.
Hedgerow Crane's-bill - Staverton 31/5/21.
Hedgerow Crane's-bill - Duckpond, Exmouth 2/8/21.
Long-stalked Crane's-bill - Duckaller Farm, Dawlish 11/7/20. Junctions on long stem surrounded with short, red bracts.
Meadow Crane's-bill - Goring, Berks 29/5/21. Growing in water meadow beside Thames.
Herb Robert - Orcombe Point 15/5/2.
Musk Stork's-bill - Foxholes 24/2/21.
Common Stork's-bill - Mudbank 25/7/20.
Common Stork's-bill - The Maer, Exmouth 18/5/21.
Lythraceae
Purple Loosestrife - Clyst St Mary 2/7/20.
Onagraceae
Great Willowherb - Liverton Industrial Estate 26/6/20.
Hoary Willowherb (and below) - Chudleigh 8/7/20.
Showing hairy stem.
Presumed Broad-leaved Willowherb - Mudbank 18/7/20.
Rosebay Willowherb - Woodbury Common.
Presumed Fragrant Evening Primrose - The Maer 23/7/20.
Presumed Large-flowered Evening Primrose (and below) - Blackhill Quarry 4/7/20.
Malvaceae
Musk Mallow - Mudbank 25/7/20.
Common Mallow - Exmouth.
Tree Mallow - Exmouth.
Smaller Tree Mallow - Topsham Quay 18/7/20.
Resedaceae
Weld - Mudbank 4/7/20.
Brassicaceae
Thale Cress - Belle Vue Road 18/3/21.
Shepherd's Purse - Mudbank 15/7/20.
Lady's Smock/Cuckooflower - Orcombe Point 31/3/21.
Wavy Bitter-cress - Orcombe Point 26/7/20. Growing in a damp spot. Six anthers.
Hairy Bitter-cress - Lympstone 21/2/21. Four anthers.
Lesser Swine-cress - Liverton trading estate 11/6/21.
Swine-cress -Liverton trading estate 11/6/21.
Hairy Rock-cress - Berry Head 1/6/21.
Common Whitlowgrass - Exmouth seafront 05/3/21.
Annual Wall-rocket - the Maer 25/7/20. Growing around the back of the amusements.
Sea Rocket - Sandy Bay 5/5/21.
Sea Kale - Weston 11/7/20.
Wild Radish - Mudbank 25/7/20.
Sea Radish - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.
Garlic Mustard - Mill Road, Exeter 17/4/21.
Shepherd's Cress - Dawlish Warren 8/4/21.
Field Penny-cress - Orcombe Point 3/6/21.
English Scurvygrass - Exton 2/6/21. Growing in saltmarsh.
Danish Scurvygrass - Exmouth seafront 5/3/21.
Plumbaginaceae
Common Sea-lavender - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.
Rock Sea-lavender - Dawlish 27/7/20.
Thrift - Orcombe Point 27/4/21.
Polygonaceae
Redshank - River Otter 13/7/20. Black spots on leaves.
Black Bindweed - Otter Cliffs 13/7/20.
Sheep's Sorrel - Sandy Bay 5/5/21.
Caryopyllaceae
Sea Sandwort -The Maer, Exmouth 22/6/21.
Common Chickweed - Orcombe Point 26/9/20.
Presumed Lesser Chickweed - Duckpond, Exmouth 25/5/21.
Greater Stitchwort - near Woodbury 21/3/21.
Lesser Stitchwort - Dinan Way, Exmouth - opposite Lidl 9/6/21.
Presumed Common Mouse-ear - Orcombe Point (sepals same length as petals).
Presumed Sticky Mouse-ear - Mudbank 27/3/21.
Presumed Sea Mouse-ear - The Maer 13/3/21.
Presumed Little Mouse-ear - The Maer 23/5/21.
Upright Chickweed - Dawlish Warren 8/4/21.
Procumbent Pearlwort - Mudbank 15/7/20.
Sea Pearlwort - Dawlish Warren 8/4/21.
Corn Spurrey - Duckaller Farm 11/7/20.
Sand Spurrey - Colaton Raleigh Common 5/6/21.
Presumed Rock Sea-spurrey - Exmouth Beach - growing on rocks at the base of cliffs (end of Marine Drive) 30/6/21.
Bladder Campion - Madeira Walk, Exmouth 20/6/21.
Sea Campion - Slapton Beach 28/10/20. Flat along the ground at the top of the beach.
White Campion - Mudbank 4/7/20.
Red Campion.
Small-flowered Catchfly - Labrador Bay 20/9/20.
Nottingham Catchfly - Dunscombe Cliffs, near Weston 26/7/20.
Rose Campion - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.
Ragged Robin - Chudleigh 8/7/20.
Red Goosefoot - Duckpond, Exmouth 2/8/21.
Spear-leaved Orache - Seaton Beach 13/6/21.
Frosted Orache - Duckpond, Exmouth 2/8/21.
Sea Purslane - Mudbank 18/7/20.
Sea Beet - Sandy Bay 21/7/20.
Perennial Glasswort - Dawlish Warren 6/8/20.
Common Glasswort - Duckpond, Exmouth 20/6/21.
Annual Sea-blite - Duckpond, Exmouth 20/6/21.
Prickly Saltwort - Sandy Bay 21/7/20.
Montiaceae
Blinks - Dawlish Warren 1/5/21.
Cornaceae
Dogwood - near Sandy Bay 10/6/21.
Primulaceae
Cowslip - Chudleigh 1/4/21.
Sea Milkwort - Soar Mill Cove 11/6/22.
Scarlet Pimpernel - Orcombe Point.
Blue Pimpernel - Fethiye, Turkey April 2022.
Yellow Pimpernel - Blackhill Quarry 26/6/20.
Bog Pimpernel - Bystock 10/7/20.
Chaffweed - Withycombe Raleigh Common 17/5/21.
Brookweed - Maer Valley 23/6/21.
Ericaceae
Cross-leaved Heather - Bicton Common 26/6/20.
Bell Heather - Bicton Common 25/6/20.
Rubiaceae
Marsh Bedstraw - River Otter 13/7/20. Brown anthers. Growing in the ditches.
Lady's Bedstraw - Weston 11/7/20.
Hedge Bedstraw - Mudbank 15/7/20.
Heath Bedstraw - Woodbury Common 2/6/21.
Cleavers (aka Goose-grass) - Foxholes, Exmouth 23/5/21.
Crosswort - Aylesbeare Common 8/5/21.
Wild Madder.
Gentianaceae
Common Centaury - Blackhill Quarry 15/6/20.
Lesser Centaury - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.
Slender Centaury - Eype, Dorset 28/7/21 (white form).
Yellow Wort - Sandy Bay, Exmouth 1/8/20.
Boaraginaceae
Common Gromwell - Berry Head 1/6/21.
Purple Gromwell - Weston 11/7/20.
Viper's Bugloss - Orcombe Point.
Bugloss - Mudbank, Exmouth 25/7/20.
Green Alkanet - Maer Valley, Exmouth 23/6/21.
Field Forget-me-not - near Rockbeare 12/7/20. Hooked hairs on calyx. Tiny flowers.
Early Forget-me-not - The Maer, Exmouth 5/4/21.
Changing Forget-me-not - Exmouth seafront 28/3/21.
Creeping Forget-me-not - Prewley Moor, Dartmoor 19/6/21. In wet areas.
Water Forget-me-not - River Otter 13/7/20. Pale form below.
Wood Forget-me-not - Bicton Common 25/5/21.
Common Hound's-tongue - Martin Down, Hants 4/6/21.
Convolvulaceae
Sea Bindweed - The Maer, Exmouth 23/6/21.
Cuscutaceae
Dodder - near Cold East Cross, Dartmoor 14/7/20.
Solanaceae
Henbane - Slapton Sands 22/6/22.
Thorn-apple - Exmouth, near the Duckpond 29/11/20.
Black Nightshade - Mudbank, Exmouth 3/7/20.
Bittersweet (also known as Woody Nightshade) - Mudbank 25/7/20.
Veronicaceae
Heath Speedwell - Woodbury Common 8/7/20. Lots in the meadow at Bystock too.
Brooklime - Maer Valley 23/6/21.
Thyme-leaved Speedwell - Orcombe Point 2/5/21.
Ivy-leaved Speedwell - Maer Valley 3/3/21.
Slender Speedwell - Saint Hill nr Kentisbeare 5/4/21.
Field Speedwell.
Germander Speedwell - Exmouth.
Wall Speedwell - The Maer 10/4/21.
Wood Speedwell - Liverton Copse 8/5/21.
Sharp-leaved Fluellen - Labrador Bay 20/9/20.
Common Toadflax - Weston 11/7/20.
Purple Toadflax - Exmouth 4/7/20.
Plantaginaceae
Sea Plantain - Mudbank 18/7/20.
Hoary Plantain - Noar Hill, Hants 26/6/21.
Scrophulariaceae
Great Mullein - Blackhill Quarry 19/7/20.
Dark Mullein - Selborne, Hants 26/6/21.
Common Figwort - Backhill Quarry 4/7/20.
Water Figwort - Blackhill Quarry 5/7/20. Also found at Mudbank and Bystock.
Lamiaceae
Hedge Woundwort - The Maer, Exmouth 23/6/21.
Marsh Woundwort - Maer Valley 23/6/20.
Field Woundwort - Duckaller Farm 17/7/20.
Betony - Woodbury Common 5/7/20. Also found at Bystock, around the edge of the meadow.
Black Horehound - Mudbank 31/7/20.
White Dead-nettle - River Otter 13/7/20.
Red Dead-nettle - Orcombe Point 7/10/20.
Henbit Dead-nettle - Mudbank 25/7/20.
Greater Skullcap - Bystock 2/7/20.
Lesser Skullcap - Bystock 10/7/20. Growing beside the board-walk at the top end of the reserve. A much smaller plant than Greater Skullcap.
Wood Sage - Dawlish 29/6/20.
Bugle - Veiges Plantation, Exmouth 13/5/21.
Ground Ivy - East Budleigh Common 25/6/20.
Self-heal.
Self-heal (white form) - near East Budleigh Common 12/7/20.
Wild Basil - Chudleigh 8/7/20.
Wild Marjoram - Weston 11/7/20.
Wild Thyme - near Cold East Cross, Dartmoor 14/7/20.
Gypsywort - River Otter 29/7/20.
Water Mint - Recycling Centre, near Castle Lane, Exmouth 4/8/20.
Water Mint - River Otter 13/7/20.
Orobanchaceae
Eyebright sp - Bystock 2/7/20.
Western Eyebright - Berry Head 1/6/21. Four flowers at right angles to one another.
Eyebright agg - Cotswolds, Gloucestershire 29/7/21.
Eyebright sp - Dartmoor 23/7/21.
Red Bartsia - Mudbank, Exmouth 3/7/20.
Yellow Bartsia - Dawlish Warren 22/6/20.
Yellow Rattle - The Maer, Exmouth 22/6/21.
Ivy Broomrape - Madeira Walk, Exmouth 30/6/20.
Ivy Broomrape - Dunscombe Cliffs, near Weston 11/7/20.
Common Broomrape - Kenfig, Glamorgan 10/7/21. On Sea Holly.
Carrot Broomrape - Berry Head 1/6/21. Several spikes seen - all close to Wild Carrot - no Ivy present.
Knapweed Broomrape - Noar Hill, Hants 26/6/21.
Thyme Broomrape - Lizard, Cornwall 4/8/24.
Broomrape sp - Fethiye, Turkey April 2022.
Asteraceae
Carline Thistle - Dawlish Warren 12/8/20.
Slender Thistle - Duckpond, Exmouth 15/6/21.
Welted Thistle - Dawlish Warren 13/8/21.
Musk Thistle - Orcombe Point, Exmouth.
Spear Thistle - Bicton Common 25/6/20.
Dwarf Thistle - near Weston 26/7/20.
Marsh Thistle - Chudleigh 23/6/20.
Creeping Thistle - Orcombe Point.
Cotton Thistle - Dawlish Warren 13/8/21.
Milk Thistle - Dancing Ledge, Dorset 14/4/21.
Greater Knapweed (and leaves below) - River Otter 1/7/20.
Common Knapweed - Exmouth.
Common Cudweed - Blackhill Quarry 25/6/21. With Small Cudweed behind.
Marsh Cudweed - The Maer, Exmouth 23/6/21.
Small Cudweed - Blackhill Quarry 17/6/21.
Ploughman's-spikenard - Dunscombe Cliffs, near Weston 11/7/20.
Sea Aster - Lizard, Cornwall 4/8/24.
Feverfew - the Maer, Exmouth 27/6/20.
Apiaceae
Sanicle - Veiges Plantation, Exmouth 13/5/21.
Field Erygno - Billacombe, Plymouth 18/7/21.
Sea Holly - The Maer, Exmouth.
Iridaceae
American Blue-eyed Grass - Dawlish Warren 22/6/20.
Yellow Iris (aka Flag Iris) - Carter Park, Exmouth 5/6/23.
Stinking Iris - The Maer 22/6/21.
Warren Crocus - Dawlish Warren 1/4/21.
Asparagaceae
Star-of-Bethlehem - Fethiye, Turkey April 2022.
Spring Squill - Sandy Bay, Exmouth 5/5/21.
Autumn Squill - Lizard, Cornwall 4/8/24.
Garden Asparagus - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.
Butcher's Broom - Mudbank, Exmouth 27/3/21.
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