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Western Isles Wildflowers

Western Isles wildflowers is a collection of information about our Hebridean wildflowers including identification hints, traditional herbal uses and general plant lore.

 

Blue Wildflowers in the Western Isles

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	Common Dog Violet	to mid-June
	Purple Flag	Purple Iris, very rare, South Harris only?
	Wild Pansy	machair, arable fields, blue or multi-coloured, rounded leaves, petals longer than sepals (petals that make up the floral envelope)
	Viper's Bugloss	very rare here, once or twice ever, Taransay, Scarista, dry sandy places
	Bugle	blue and straight -sided, Stornoway castle grounds, troops, darkish and rounded lower leaves
	Heath Speedwell	4-12", short vertical shoots which carry violet flowers, forms mats sometimes
	Brooklime	6-9", flower of a speedwell, fleshy quite large leaves, thick stem, damp and wet places, fairly rarely found here
	Thyme-leaved Speedwell	4-8", dry bare places, waste spaces, roadsides, creeping, upright stems
	Blue Water-speedwell	2' tall, wet places, long narrow leaves, angular shape, tiny blue-violet flowers
	Common Butterwort	3-6", star shaped base rosette yellow-green leaves, insect-eater
	Rough Comfrey	2', large plant forms spreading clumps, large leaves look like a foxgloves, stem has short bristles, flowers go blue

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