Western Isles - Wild Flowers - Wildflowers & - Hebrides Flowers
The Hebrides has a great diversity of wild flowers - all colours - however the blue and purple or mauve colours are some of the most stunning flowers, fron the bluebells, harebells, field gentians and butterwort, they really are pretty. Lovely wildflowers of the Western Isles. In the late spring and summer the beautiful machair with its many types of wild flowers interwoven - a rare carpet of flowers - only to be seen in the Western Isles. |
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Western Isles Flowers - Wildflowers and Flora of The Hebrides
Blue Purple and Mauve Hebridean Wildflowers
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Bluebell - Wild Hyacinth
Ref:BLU9000 |
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Burdock - Lesser Burdock
Ref:BUR1001 |
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Bog Bean - Isle of Harris
Ref:BO9000 |
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Bog bean - aquatic plant with large leaves. Common in the bogs and lochs in The Western Isles - has white star shaped flowers in the early spring
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Butterwort
Ref:BUT1000 |
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Field Gentiani
Ref:FIE100 |
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Water Forget Me Not
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Lovely Purple wildflowers - Hebrides Flowers. This plant has pinkish violet two-lipped flowers. streaked with deep purple on long, leafless stems.
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These lovely compact violet purple flowers - seen at Bosta in August are a delight to see especially as they are becoming a little more rare.
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Foxglove
Ref:FOX9000 |
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Harebells
Ref:HA1000
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Geranium - Doves Foot Cranesbill
Ref:GER9000 |
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The nodding blue bell shaped flowers display through the summer in the Hebrides amongst the machair's create a vision of delicate beauty
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This lovely pink mauve geranium molle, the doves foot cranesbill is a really pretty wildflower
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Purple Irises - Iris versicolor
Ref:IRIS9000
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Knapweed
Ref:KNA9001
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Common Mikwort - Polygala Vulgaris
Ref:HEA1000
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Purple irises growing wild in The Isle of Harris, near Leverburgh - here are a protected species and grow only in one place on the islands
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These wildflowers seen all over The Western Isles, indeed throughout Scotland and the Uk look somewhat like thistles - but have no spikes. Lovely purple wild flowers.
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Heath Mikwort - Polygala serpyllifolia
Ref:HEA1000
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Water Mint
Ref: WA9000 |
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Northern Marsh Orchid
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Heath Milkwort, pretty little wildflowers seen in the Western Isles - either bright pink or blue - similar to the common milkwort, flowering on marshy grass or moorland
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This lovely mauve, pink, purple lilac plant growing near streams or wet boggy marshy land here in the Hebrides is a really pretty plant with lovly rounded flowerheads, during the summer months through to October
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Dactylorhiza purpurella - A robust plant 10-35cm tall, with 4 - 6 six broad green pointed stem leaves. The flower spike is dense , square topped, with 10-40 bright purple to magenta coloured flowers
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Hebridean Spotted Orchid
Ref:ORC9008 |
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Scabious - Devils Bit
Ref:Sca100 |
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Germander Speedwell
Ref:GER1004
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The Hebridean spotted Orchid - specific to the Western isles - these wildflowers are really delicate and so pretty. This orchid likes the lime that the sea shells bring to the sand - or machair here in the Hebrides
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Scabious or Devils bit has lovely pinky purple flowers - was so called as the roots look like they have been bitten of - supposedly by the devil
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There are six types of Speedwell that grow here and throughout Scotland. This species can be identified by the hairs on either side of the stem...
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Heath Speedwell
Ref:HEA1004
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Spring Squill
Ref:SOR000
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Marsh Thistle
Ref:Marth9000 |
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These western isles flowers are low growing and very tolerant of salt spray. The star shaped delicate blue wildflowers really are pretty.
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The first of the three thistles to flower in the Western isles summers, these lovely deep purple flowers in clusters are borne at the tops of very prickly stems
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Spear Thistle
Ref:Speth9000 |
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Wild Thyme
Ref:THY9000 |
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Tufted Vetch
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These pretty pink purple flowers are very pretty. The flower heads are larger than the creeping or marsh thistle flowers, getting up to 4 cms in diameter.
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Tiny pink and mauve wildflowers native to the Western Isles thriving all over the islands. Great swathes of the flowers create carpets on the rocks, in the grass, very pretty and sweet scented too.
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Tufted Vetch - Western Isles Wildflowers - This perennial climbing herb - has blue wild flowers from May to August in The Western Isles. The lovely blue flowers are pollinated by bees and flies
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Common Dog Violet
Viola riviniana -
DOG1000 |
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Heath Dog Violet
Viola canina-
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These tiny blue flowers, the common dog violets - grow wild all over the Western Isles. The flower is only tiny - a little smaller than a buttercup. THe leaves grow in a tift and are heart shaped
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Lovely deep blue violets, one of the three types of violets to be seen here in the Western Isles, appearing from May throughout the summer months on the heaths, and sany grassland
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Machair - Tolsta
Ref:MAC00011 |
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Heath Spotted Orchid
Ref:ORC9002 |
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Self Heal - Moorland Traigh Mhor
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Particular areas of the Western Isles - have their own machair's made up of all different types of wildflowers - sometimes some of the species being only specific to that particular region. A carpet of colourful wildflowers specific to the Islands
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A lovely orchid, the heath Orchid. A really pretty orchid that likes damp acid soil.
This orchid was seen on the damp moorland at Tolsta. This orchid loves the acid peat moorland or damp pastures
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These lovely little red and purple wildflowers Self Heal - are native to Scotland and The UK and as the name suggests are widely used in herbal medicines.
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| Miscellaneous - Funghi - Lichen - Seaweed |
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Funghi - Mushroom/Toadstool?
Ref:MUS301 |
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Seaweed - Mangersta
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Blue Grey Lichen
Ref:GREY1000 |
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I know its only seaweed - of a type - but it really is very pretty - Spotted it growing out on the rocks at Mangersta Beach - Isle of Lewis.
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Lichen - These oplants or organisms /funghi are really diverse. So many different types from the bright yellow lichen that covers many rocks and stones through to grey, green lichen
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Stornoway i - Autumn Crocus
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This flower I believe to be a type of Autumn Crocus was just behind the Lady Matheson Monument |
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| Should I have identified any of the wildflowers incorrectly or given information that isn't correct - or if you can assist with identification of any flowers - all comments and assistance great fully received - email chris@gcwweb.com |
Western Isles Wildflowers - Flora & Flowers of The Outer Hebrides - Hebridean Wild Flowers
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