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Western Isles - Yellow and Orange Wild Flowers - Wildflowers & - Hebrides Flowers
The Hebrides has a many lovely yellow and orange wildflowers, from Birds Foot Trefoil, Bog Asphodel, Gorse, Celandine, Primroses, Biting Stonecrop, Silverweed and many more, not least the carpets of yellow flag irises that appear early summer. The machair - a carpet of mixed wildflowers that grace the Western isles through the summer is simply lovely. Read about each wildflower and view pictures
     
Birds Foot Trefoil
Birds Foot Treefoil

Birds foot trefoil, a member of the pea family. Its clover like lovely tiny yellow flowers are seen all over The Isles.

Birds Foot Trefoil - Yellow Hebridean Wildflowers

Blotched Monkey Flower
Blotched Monkey Flower

Pretty mimulus luteus, grows here in the Hebrides almost wild. It is thought to have been introduced but thrives very well.

Blotched Monkey Flower - Hebrides Wildflowers

Bog Asphodel - Yellow Orange Western Isles Wildflowers
Bog Asphodel

Bog Asphodel, Bright Yellow flowers on a long spiky stem, the yellow wildflowers show orange tips after flowering

Wildflowers - Bog Asphodel

     
Lesser Celandine
Lesser Celandine

Surprisingly it was the lesser celandine that Wordsworth loved best - not daffodils as many think.

Lesser Celandine

Gorse-Yellow Wildflowers
Gorse

Gorse likes the acid soil. The yellow flowers on this spiny evergreen shrub are prolific during April and May

Gorse-Western Isles Yellow Wildflowers

Hawkweed
Hawkweed

Tiny little pretty yellow wildflowers seen all over The Western Isles. Many consider a weed - but it is too pretty to be a weed

Western Isles Yellow Wildflowers - Hawkweed

     
Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle, native to the Western Isles, This plant was a mass of flowers wedged in the rock face at Lingerbay - Isle of Harris

Honeysuckle

Yellow Flag Iris
Iris - Yellow Flag

The wild iris or flag iris are very prolific here in The Hebrides. The flowers appear from April through to June.

Yellow Flag Iris - Hebrides Flowers

Kidney Vetch
Kidney Vetch

Clusters of Yellow wildflowers with patches of orange or red on them creating lovely bright displays

Ling

     
     
     
     
Ladies Bedstraw
Ladies Bedstraw

Clusters of yellow wildflowers that create a carpet on the machair or by the sea on the sandy dunes.

Knapweed

Machair - Carpets of Wildflowers
Machair

Particular areas of the Western Isles have their own machair's made up of all different types of wildflowers .

Knapweed

Lesser Butterfly Orchid - Western Isles
Lesser Butterfly Orchid

Tiny delicate wildflower, the lesser butterfly orchid, in recent times seen only in Western Scotland & The Western Isles.

Lesser Butterfly Orchids - Western Isles

     
Marsh Marigold
Marsh Marigold

A plant of wet meadows, marshes , wet woodlands, grows well in shade. Bright, glowing yellow flowers in the spring!

Marsh Marigold

Lesser Butterfly Orchid - Western Isles
Lesser Butterfly Orchid

Tiny delicate wildflower, the lesser butterfly orchid, in recent times seen only in Western Scotland & The Western Isles.

Lesser Butterfly Orchids - Western Isles

Montbretia
Montbretia

Montbretia grows wild in some parts of the Western Isles. In September its bright copper colour makes stunning wildflowers.

Montbretia - Hebrides Wildflowers

     
Primroses- Western Isles
Primroses

Primroses, Creamy Yellow Wildflowers. One of the first flowers in the Hebrides to herald in spring.

Lesser Butterfly Orchids - Western Isles

Sea Plantain - Western Isles
Plantain - Sea Plantain

Sea Plantain, green flowers whose anthers are yellow, these lovely yellow wildflowers, thrive by the sea

Sea Plantain - Western Isles

Ragwort-Yellow Wildflowers - Hebrides
Common Ragwort

It is hard to believe - but these pretty yellow wildflowers are really weeds, all the same very pretty flowers

Yellow Wildflowers - Ragwort

     
     
Silverweed - Hebrides Wildflowers
Silverweed

The underside of the leaves of the silverweed plant are silver in colour - hence the name.

Silverweed

Biting Stonecrop
Biting Stonecrop

Golden yellow star shaped wildflowers that appear in sprays above the succulent leaves, in rock crevices or on the sand.

Biting Stonecrop

Tansy
Tansy

Tansy a perennial herbaceous flowering plant of the aster family, The yellow buttonlike wildflowers are lovely

Tansy Yellow Hebrides Wildflowers

     
Tormentil
Tormentil

The tiny flowers create a carpet along the moors really are very pretty when you take the time to look close up - so very tiny!

Tormentil Flowers

Yellow Rattle
Yellow Rattle

Yellow Rattle an annual seen in the Western Isles. The tube like yellow flowers appear in the summer .

Yellow rattle

     
Miscellaneous - Lichen - Seaweed    
     
seaweed
Seaweed

Many different types of seaweed wash up on the Hebrides shores, some are really pretty. Read more and see pictures

Seaweed

Lichens
Lichen

Lichen organisms / funghi are really diverse. From bright yellow lichen through to grey green lichen

Knapweed

 
     
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