(11)Common Wild Thyme [Thymus praecox/drucei]. A tiny prostrate mat-forming perennial shrub, common on dry grassland and heathy places. The flowering stems are up to 7cm long and it has extensive thin woody creeping runners, which root readily. Both the foliage and the small but densely packed flowers, present from May to August, are slightly aromatic.

(12)Red Valerian [Centranthus ruber]. A perennial growing in large tufts with red, rose or white flowers from May onwards. The plant grows on banks, walls and cliffs to the height of 90cms.

(13)White Campion [Silene alba]. Usually larger and more branched than red campion with larger flowers on longer stalks during May to August. It grows to approx. 80cms and is common on disturbed ground, roadsides and waste places.

(14)Wild Carrot [Daucus carota]. A biennial of up to 75cm, common in grassy and waste places, especially on limestone. The dirty white flowers produced between June and August are frequently tinged a pinkish-purple.

(15)Woolly Thistle [Cirsium eriophorum]. A stately biennial of grassland, scrub and roadsides on lime soils, about 1.2 metres in height. Huge globular flowerheads up to 6cm across, occur from July to September on the several long stalks that arise from the stiff woolly grey stem.

(16)Common Dog Violet [Viola riviniana]. A widespread perennial up to 20cms, occurring in open wooded places, grassy places and rough ground on hillsides. Flowering late March-June, the flowers are usually a violet blue, can be white, with pointed sepals and lack the characteristic violet odour. Violets hybridise freely and the classification 'dog violet' is often used to capture all the species of non-scented violets.

(17)Sweet Violet [Viola odorata]. Our only fragrant violet, a perennial with long runners found on hedgebanks, shrubby land and wood edges. Flowering from February to early April, the flowers with blunt sepals are usually violet, although white forms are common. In this region the white form is dominant but its fragrance is often weak or non-existent, perhaps a hybrid.

(18)Dropwort [Filipendula vulgaris]. Widespread perennial of dry sunny turf on chalk and limestone. Known as the downland Meadowsweet, smaller than its wetland cousin (Filipendula ulmaria) at 15-60cm high. The leaflets are finely cut, fern-like, in a basal rosette and its unscented flowers from June to August are fewer in number than its cousin.

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