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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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	Hairy Bitter-cress	3"- 8", basal rosette, leaves have pairs of rounded leaflets, seeds pop fom long narrow pods, gardens and waste ground
	Daisy	Do you see weeds or wildflowers? That is the question...
	Mountain Everlasting	6", grassland banks, ledges, papery, clublike, very downy
	Common Scurvy Grass	4-10", deep green, mostly at shoreline, very large plants with lots of flowers usually means mink or otter places
	Bogbean	in lochs, leaves like broad-bean and flowers held abobve the water, lochs turn pink-white with bogbean in Spring
	Heath Bedstraw	3-5", moorland, damp ground and road-side, profusion of tiny white flowers on angular stems
	Sea Arrow Grass	8", saltmarsh and seashore, long, slender leaves flat at tips (marsh arrow-grass clyindrical tips)
	Sea Campion	8 -10", sea cliffs and shingle
	Winter Heliotrope	Stornoway castle grounds, first flower in the year, soft downy stem and leaves (large), flower-heads develop into large cone-shapes

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