Greenish-white flowers; long, narrow leaves, with prickly edges (cleavers)
Big, floating white flowers; Floating leaves are round in outline; none underwater
Long flattened leaves and large, bright yellow flowers.
Green flowerheads in threes and blunt, oval leaves
lapidarius - Abdomen relatively long. Hair longer and thorax less humped than in confusus.
Feathery foliage and delicate clusters of up to 20 pink and red flowers.
No obvious scent :-)
Leaves deeply dissected
Large bright scarlet flowers. Leaves deeply divided with narrow segments.
Small creamy-white flowers, each with a yellow centre.
Small creamy-white flowers, each with a yellow centre.
Leaves more deeply cut than other geranium; pink flowers
Small clusters of tiny yellow flowers. Leaves are three-lobed cloverleaf with the tip of each extended into a minute point.
White or sandhill snailThe shell background colour is a creamy white, with varying degrees of pale to dark brown markings. The markings are in the form of uninterrupted spiral bands.
One-sided inflorescence of 4–8 tubular, sweet-scented purple flowers.
Observed with young - see image. Largely black except for the white facial shield; partial webbing on long toes.
Dark plumage apart from the white undertail, yellow legs and a red facial shield.
Two: landing on grass and crawling into undergrowth; reappearing and repeating process. I assume they are looking for new nesting holes.
Possible queens as very large.
Pair on Fencing - Black head and neck, prominent white cheeks, olive upperparts and yellow underparts
Rusty red wings with, at each wingtip, distinctive, black, blue and yellow eye-spots.
Blue crown and dark blue line passing through the eye, and encircling the white cheeks to the chin. White forehead. Wings and tail are blue. Underparts yellow.
Black head and neck, prominent white cheeks, olive upperparts and yellow underparts
Next to Maghull to Ormskirk Railway Line.
Flower - violet-purple, 3-5 cm diameter, with a five-lobed corolla.
Bright yellow head, yellow underparts, and a heavily streaked brown back.
In ditch - south facing - white 'flowers' with six or seven petal-like segments.
Blackish bark and dense, stiff, spiny branches; blossom five creamy-white petals; no leaves yet.
Strobilus of the Great Horsetail (Equisetum telmateia telmateia).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsetail
5-lobed blue flowers with yellow centers. Leaves are alternate.
