Tipton's Croft

A wild field garden in Bomere Heath, Shropshire, England

Wildflowers

A list of all our native and naturalised wildflowers. A total of 123 so far.

Alexanders
Arrowhead
Betony
Bird’s-foot trefoil
Black mustard
Bluebell [native]
Bogbean
Bramble
Branched bur-reed
Bristly oxtongue
Broad-leaved pondweed
Broad-leaved willowherb
Bulrush (reedmace)
Charlock (wild mustard)
Chickweed
Cleavers
Common fleabane
Common knapweed
Common knotgrass
Common poppy
Common sorrel
Common spike-rush
Common vetch
Common water-crowfoot
Common water-starwort
Compact rush
Corn chamomile
Corn marigold
Corncockle
Cornflower
Cow parsley
Cowslip
Creeping cinquefoil
Creeping jenny
Creeping thistle
Cuckoo flower
Cut-leaved crane’s-bill
Daffodil [native]
Dandelion
Dock
Duckweed
Fat hen
Flowering rush
Foxglove
Fringed water-lily
Garlic mustard
Great burnet
Great willowherb
Greater celandine
Greater plantain
Greater stitchwort
Ground elder
Ground-ivy
Groundsel
Gypsywort
Hairy bitter-cress
Hedge bedstraw
Hedge bindweed
Hedge woundwort
Hemp-agrimony
Herb robert
Hogweed
Honeysuckle
Ivy
Jointed rush
Lady’s bedstraw
Lesser celandine
Lesser spearwort
Lesser stitchwort
Lords-and-ladies
Marsh cudweed
Marsh marigold
Marsh woundwort
Meadow buttercup
Meadow vetchling
Meadowsweet
Milk thistle
Musk mallow
Nettle
Opium poppy
Oxeye daisy
Petty spurge
Primrose
Purple loosestrife
Ragged robin
Ragwort
Red campion
Red clover
Red dead-nettle
Redshank
Ribwort plantain
Rosebay willowherb
Salad burnet
Scarlet pimpernel
Scented mayweed
Selfheal
Sneezewort
Snowdrop [naturalised]
Soapwort [naturalised]
Soft rush
Spear thistle
Square-stalked St John’s-wort
Square-stalked willowherb
Tufted vetch
Water mint
Water plantain
Watercress
White campion
White clover
White water-lily
Wild angelica
Wild carrot
Wild garlic
Wild radish
Wild strawberry
Wild teasel
Wood avens
Wood spurge
Woody nightshade
Yarrow
Yellow iris (flag)
Yellow rattle
Yellow water-lily

There are some that aren’t so welcome: incomers that are non-native and potentially invasive so we remove them as soon as we see them.

Pineapple weed
Procumbent Yellow Sorrel
Yellow archangel (ssp argentatum)