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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.

 

White Wildflowers in the Western Isles

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	Snowdrops	5-8", spring bulb,
	Lousewort pink, rarely white	3-6", moorland and damp pasture, a few syems in a clump, leaves are small and comprised of leaflets
	Sticky Mouse-ear	2-15", clump, spreading shape, slightly sticky, hairy, mostly waste spaces, machair, roadsides,gardens,
	Sea Sandwort	4-8", angular shapes, fleshy leaves, shingle, sand, saltmarsh, strandline
	Heath Milkwort Blue, pink or white	3-5", moorland, wet pasture land, flowers like tiny udders
	Common Milkwort Blue, pink or white	3-5", machair, dry pastures, banks, flowers like tiny udders
	Horsetail	4-18", buff-stem with head carrying white spores, dies down followed by green stem a bit like a bottle brush
	White Campion	12-24" slight night-time scent, fields, roadsides
	Cotoneaster	6-12", small in height, creeping shrub, likes walls and rocks, red berries

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