1 Agrimonia eupatoria, the common agrimony, also known as common agrimony, field agrimony, field flower and small agrimony, is a plant species in the subfamily Rosoideae within the rose family. It is widespread in Eurasia.
It is a perennial, herbaceous plant that forms rhizomes. The stem is hairy, reddish, unbranched and bears a basal rosette of leaves consisting of 3-6 pairs of main leaflets, between which are pairs of smaller leaflets. The stem has been used for its coloring properties.
The flowers are yellow and form terminal racemes that can rise up to one meter above the ground. The fruits are small nuts marked with furrows. They have hooked hairs at the tip and are easily detached, which makes them easier to spread by animals or humans.
2 Anthericum liliago, the St Bernard's lily, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is native to mainland Europe (not the British Isles) and Turkey, growing in dry pastures, stony places and open woods and flowering in early summer.
It is a vigorous herbaceous flowering perennial with tuberous roots, 60–90 cm high, with leaves narrowly linear, 12–40 cm and producing racemes of 6-10 lily-like white flowers in Spring and Summer. Best grown in well-drained soil in a sunny position, Anthericum liliago can be propagated by seed or by division of the rootstock every 3 to 4 years. It is a slow starter but forms large clumps with time.
3 Aster amellus, the European Michaelmas daisy, is a perennial herbaceous plant and the type species of the genus Aster and the family Asteraceae.
Description : Aster amellus reaches on average a height of 20–50 centimetres. The stem is erect and branched, the leaves are dark green. The basal leaves are obovate and petiolated, the cauline ones are alternate and sessile, increasingly narrower and lanceolate. The flowers are lilac.
The typical habitat is rocky limy areas, the edges of the bushes and copses, but also the sub-alpine meadows, marshy places and lake sides. It prefers calcareous and slightly dry substrate with basic pH and low nutritional value, at an altitude of 0–800 meters above sea level.
4 Bupleurum falcatum, also known as Sickle-leaved hare's ear, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It grows as a perennial herbaceous plant and reaches growth heights of 60 to 150, rarely up to 200 centimeters, exceptionally only 5 to 10 centimeters. The stem is usually bent back and forth in a more or less zigzag shape and is usually branched in the upper part. It flowers from July to October and is found in southern Europe and central and eastern Europe. Its distribution area extends from Great Britain and France to Turkey and the Caucasus region.
5 Centaurea scabiosa, or greater knapweed, is a perennial plant of the genus Centaurea. It is native to Europe and bears purple flower heads.
Centaurea scabiosa is found growing in dry grasslands, hedgerows and cliffs on lime-rich soil. Upright branched stems terminate in single thistle-like flowerheads, each having an outer ring of extended, purple, pink “ragged” bracts which form a crown around the central flowers. The plant has deeply dissected leaves which form a clump at the base.
This species is very valuable to bees. It is also a magnet for many species of butterfly. Among them is the marbled white. This is the only known food plant for caterpillars of th Coleophoridae case-bearer moth Coleophora didymella. This perennial herb grows with an erect grooved stem up to 90 cm high. The leaves are alternate, pinnatifid and with stalks. The flower heads are 5 cm across and on long stalks. The florets are red-purple.
6 Origanum vulgare is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It was native to the Mediterranean region, but widely naturalized elsewhere in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Oregano is a woody perennial plant, growing to 90 cm tall, with opposite leaves 1–4 cm long. The flowers which can be white, pink or light purple, are 3–4 mm long, and produced in erect spikes in summer. Oregano is a perennial, although it is grown as an annual in colder climates, as it often does not survive the winter.
It grows to 90 centimeters tall and 50 cm wide. The leaves are spade-shaped and olive-green. The flowers are purple, pink or white, 4–7 cm long and grouped in clusters.
It is sometimes called wild marjoram, while its close relative Origanum majorana is known as sweet marjoram. Both are widely used as culinary herbs, especially in Turkish, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Latin, and French cuisine.
7 Prunella grandiflora, the large-flowered selfheal, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to Europe and neighboring parts of West Asia. It is a plant of medium-altitude dry meadows. It prefers basic soils (limestone, basalt). Apart from the size of its flowers, it can be distinguished from the Prunella grandiflora by the absence of leaves directly below the inflorescence. It is found in central and southern Europe, mostly in mountainous areas (it is classified as a Mediterranean oophyte). It is common in the Alps, Pyrenees, western Massif Central and Jura, as well as in certain central European mountain ranges (Black Forest, Bohemian Forest, Sudetes, etc.).
8 Salvia pratensis, the meadow sage, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. The Latin specific epithet pratensis means “of meadows”, referring to its preferred habitat. It also grows in scrub edges and woodland borders.
This herbaceous perennial forms a basal clump 1 to 1.5 m tall, with rich green rugose leaves that are slightly ruffled and toothed on the edges. The flower stalks are typically branched, with four to six flowers in each verticil forming a lax spike.
9 Petrosedum rupestre, Sedum reflexum, also known as blue stonecrop, stone orpine, is a species of perennial succulent flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to northern, central, and southern Europe.
Petrosedum rupestre plants are typically up to 10 cm high, with sprawling stems and stiff foliage resembling spruce branches, with softer tissue. The leaves are frequently blue-gray to gray but range to light greens and yellows; the flowers are yellow. Like many Sedum species, it has a prostrate, spreading habit. Petrosedum rupestre is a popular ornamental plant, grown in gardens, containers, and as houseplants. It is drought tolerant.
10 Thymus pulegioides, common names broad-leaved thyme is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Europe. Growing to 5–25 cm tall by 25 cm wide, it is a small spreading subshrub with strongly aromatic leaves, and lilac pink flowers in early summer. Broad-leaved thyme is a creeping dwarf evergreen shrub with woody stems and a taproot. It is rather similar to wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum) but it is larger, the leaves are wider and all the stems form flowering shoots. The plant flowers in July and August. The usually pink or mauve flowers form rounded umbels and each has a tube-like calyx and an irregular straight-tubed, hairy corolla. This ornamental thyme is useful as groundcover, but can also be used like thyme in cooking.
11 Achillea millefolium, commonly known as yarrow or common yarrow, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Growing to 1 meter tall, it is characterized by small whitish flowers, a tall stem of fernlike leaves, and a pungent odor. Achillea millefolium is an erect, herbaceous, perennial plant that produces one to several stems 0.2–1 meter in height, and has a spreading rhizomatous growth form. Achillea millefolium can be planted to combat soil erosion due to the plant’s resistance to drought.
Common yarrow is frequently found in the mildly disturbed soil of grasslands and open forests. Yarrow is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Asia and Europe.
Flowering period: June–September
12 Echium vulgare, known as viper’s bugloss and blueweed, is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae. It is native to most of Europe and western and central Asia.
It is a biennial or monocarpic perennial plant growing to 30–80 cm tall, with rough, hairy, oblanceolate leaves. The flowers start pink and turn vivid blue, and are 15–20 mm in a branched spike, with all the stamens protruding. They can be found on dry, calcareous meadows and heaths, in bare and barren places, along railroad lines and roadsides as well as on coastal cliffs, sand dunes and rubble dumps.
Flowering period: May–August
13 Linaria vulgaris, the yellow toadflax is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, native to Europe, Siberia and Central Asia.
It is a perennial plant with short spreading roots, erect to decumbent stems 15–90 cm high, with fine, threadlike, glaucous blue-green leaves 2–6 cm long and 1–5 mm broad. The flowers are similar to those of the snapdragon, 25–33 mm long, pale yellow except for the lower tip which is orange.
The plant is widespread on ruderal spots, along roads, in dunes, and on disturbed and cultivated land. Linaria vulgaris is a food plant for a large number of insects.
Flowering period: June–October
14 Veronica officinalis, the heath speedwell, common gypsyweed, or Paul’s betony, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It is native to Europe and western Asia. It is a herbaceous perennial with hairy green stems 10–50 cm long that cover the ground in mats and send up short vertical shoots which bear soft violet flowers. The leaves are 1.5–5 cm and 1–3 cm broad, and softly hairy. Grows from May until August in open areas, such as fields, meadows and gardens.