WILDFLOWERS 3 - A diary of wildlife on Banstead Downs

74 (of 186) flowers, grasses, creepers, mosses and ferns recorded by me on Banstead Downs (arranged by Order : Lamiales > Solanales)

Common Mallow [Malva sylvestris]

Common Mallow - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 27 Jun 2015

Rosebay Willowherb [Chamaenerion angustifolium]

Rosebay Willowherb – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 30 Jul 2025

American Willowherb [Epilobium ciliatum]

American Willowherb - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 11 Jun 2015

Great Willowherb [Epilobium hirsutum]

Great Willowherb - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 09 Jul 2015

Wood Small-reed [Calamagrostis epigejos]

close-up of C. radicans, left and a patch of the grass under an oak tree - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 7 Sep 2026

Glaucous Sedge [Carex flacca]

Glaucous Sedge - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 03 Jun 2015

Pendulous Sedge [Carex pendula]

Dry flower stem and flower spikes from last summer, showing the characteristic hanging catkin-like flower spikes and drooping flower stem of C. pendula - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 17 Apr 2026

Soft Brome [Bromus hordeaceus]

Soft Brome – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 13 Jun 2025

False Oat Grass [Arrhenatherum elatius]

False Oat Grass showing flowers and seeds - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 10 Jun 2026

Quaking-grass [Briza media]

Quaking-grass – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 13 Jun 2025

Cock's-foot [Dactylis glomerata]

Cock's-foot – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 13 Jun 2025

Yorkshire Fog [Holcus lanatus]

Yorkshire Fog - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 15 Jun 2016

Timothy grass [Phleum pratense]

Timothy grass inflorescences - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 13 Jun 2026

Common Wheat [Triticum aestivum]

Common Wheat – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 13 Jun 2025

Hart's-tongue Fern [Asplenium scolopendrium]

Hart's-tongue Fern on woodland floor - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 20 Jan 2026

Hart's-tongue fern [Asplenium scolopendrium]

Hart's-tongue fern - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 25 Jun 2015

Hart's-tongue Fern [Asplenium scolopendrium]

sori on underside of leaf of a Hart's-tongue Fern - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 14 Feb 2026

Scaly Male Fern [Dryopteris affinis]

Scaly Male Fern - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 13 Dec 2025

wood fern [Dryopteris sp.]

Dryopteris sp. – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 14 Oct 2025

Soft-Shield Fern [Polystichum setiferum]

Upper side of a frond of P. setiferum - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 11 Dec 2025