Plants

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


Common Heather (Ling) - Woodbury Common 8/7/20.


Cross-leaved Heather - Bicton Common 26/6/20.


Bell Heather - Bicton Common 25/6/20.

Rubiaceae


Field Madder - Exmouth seafront 2/5/21.


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.


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  - Mudbank 1/8/20. Growing on sea wall.


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.


Garden Asparagus - Dawlish Warren 22/7/20.


Butcher's Broom - Mudbank, Exmouth 27/3/21.

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