Common British flowers

1. Ramsons
• Ramsons are often called ‘wild garlic’.
• They have a strong smell and are common on the floor of
woodland.
• Wild garlic attracts the attention of plenty of insects that want its
pollen, including hoverflies, butterflies and longhorn beetles.

2. Cow Parsley
• Cow parsley grows well in the shade, so you often find it by
hedgerows.
• If you crush the leaves between your fingers they smell like
aniseed.
• Cow parsley is a member of the carrot family, and it is
attractive to lots of creatures like orange-tip butterflies,
marmalade hoverflies, and even rabbits.

3. Bluebells
• Bluebells are poisonous and this defends them from animals and insect
pests.
• The first bluebells are believed to have appeared in Britain after the last
Ice Age.
• Bluebells are protected under law in UK. If you dig up and sell a wild
bluebell you can be fined up to £5000 per bulb.
• It takes at least five years for a bluebell seed to grow into a bulb
• There are rare ‘albino’ bluebells which are white as they do not have the
blue pigment.

4. Forget-me-nots
 Plants have scientific names, and the scientific name of forget-me-not
is "myosotis". This name comes from the Greek language. It means
"mouse's ears". A forget-me-not’s leaves are the shape of a mouse’s
ears!
 According to a German legend, "forget-me-not" was the last, unnamed
plant, who shouted "Forget-me-not, Lord", to remind God that it still did
not have name. God named it by the last words that he heard: "forget-
me-not".