1. greater celandine
Chelidonium majus
A sparsely hairy, somewhat spreading plant to 90cm, with broadly-lobed pinnately-divided leaves, and yellow flowers in spring and summer. Self-seeds and naturalises freely
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Get to know 20 plants selected from Trakai. Discover their scientific names, identifying features and growing needs.
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2. common stinging nettle
Urtica dioica
A herbaceous perennial with spreading roots and creeping horizontal stems able to form large, patches of upright stems, to 1.5m tall, with dark green foliage. Leaves and stems are covered in stinging and non-stinging hairs. Cream or brownis
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3. fern arum
Zamioculcas zamiifolia
an evergreen, rhizomatous perennial. The smooth, shiny leaves, 40-60cm long, arise directly from the ground, and have six to eight pairs of leaflets. One or two green and white, arum-like flowers may appear among the leaf bases in summer, f
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4. common ivy
Hedera helix
H. helix is a vigorous, self-clinging climber with three- to five-lobed, glossy, evergreen leaves, often with pale green veins, and some reddish or bronzy colours in autumn. Mature plants produce bushy, non-clinging branches with diamond-sh
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5. common wood sorrel
Oxalis acetosella
A rhizomatous spreading perennial up to 10cm in height when in flower, with leaves of three heart-shaped, folded green leaflets. Among the leaves delicate flower stems bear single, funnel-shaped white flowers with fine pink veins, from spri
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6. germander speedwell
Veronica chamaedrys
A creeping plant, rooting at the nodes, with spires of bright blue flowers. These have white centres, are up to 1cm across, 4 lobed and bloom in spring and early summer. Flowering stems have two vertical lines of hairs. Leaves are entire, p
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7. lily of the valley
Convallaria majalis
A perennial to 25cm in height, forming extensive colonies. Erect racemes of nodding, bell-shaped, fragrant white flowers arise with the paired, elliptic leaves
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8. weeping fig
Ficus benjamina
An evergreen shrub or tree to 3m or more, with pendulous branches bearing glossy, slender-pointed ovate leaves to 12cm in length. Flowers insignificant, followed by reddish-orange fruits 1cm in length, becoming black
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9. hazel
Corylus avellana
Large, deciduous shrub or small multi-stemmed tree, about 6m tall, with rounded mid-green leaves turning yellow in autumn, and yellow male catkins to 6cm long in early spring, followed by edible nuts in autumn
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10. yellow archangel
Lamium galeobdolon
L. galeobdolon is a European native wildflower. It bears toothed leaves in pairs on square stems. Yellow flowers are borne in whorls in the leaf axils in early summer. Like other deadnettles, flowers are lipped and hooded
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11. liverleaf
Hepatica nobilis
H. nobilis is a slow-growing herbaceous perennial to 10cm, with kidney-shaped, three-lobed leaves, often with silvery marbling above, and solitary violet or purple flowers with conspicuous white stamens
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12. Norway maple
Acer platanoides
A vigorous deciduous large tree. Leaves 5-lobed, turning bright yellow, orange or brown in autumn. Scented yellow flowers in conspicuous clusters on bare branches
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13. white deadnettle
Lamium album
The white dead nettle is a downy perennial that spreads by rhizomatous stolons. Stems are square with pairs of leaves that are toothed, stalked and slightly heart shaped. Flowers are borne in whorls in the leaf axils from March to late autu
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14. jade plant
Crassula ovata
A bushy succulent evergreen sub-shrub growing slowly to 2m, with rounded fleshy dark green leaves often edged with red, and flat clusters of small starry white or light pink flowers in late summer
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15. ground ivy
Glechoma hederacea
A vigorous spreading, mat-forming evergreen perennial, creeping by prostrate stolons. Flowering stems sub-erect, to 10cm. Flowers are commonly violet-blue, but pink and white forms also occur
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16. chicory
Cichorium intybus
A crop plant, a parent of cultivated chicory. The thick roots are also used to make a coffee substitute, and is sometimes seen naturalised. It has wiry, branching upright stems with numerous flowers distributed along the branches, growing t
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17. viper's bugloss
Echium vulgare
Erect, bristly biennial to 75cm, with lance-shaped, hairy leaves and dense cylindrical spikes of bell-shaped violet-blue flowers in early summer
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18. ground elder
Aegopodium podagraria
Better known as Ground Elder. A vigorous and invasive clump-forming perennial, it has soft green leaves and white flowers from spring through until the autumn
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19. white clover
Trifolium repens
Small-leaved white clover is a creeping perennial that roots at the nodes. Between May and October, on long stalks, it bears rounded heads of creamy white flowers, sometimes with a hint of pale pink that fade to brown. Leaves are trifoliate
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20. common cowslip
Primula veris
P. veris is a semi-evergreen perennial to 25cm, with a rosette of distinctly stalked, oblong-ovate leaves and upright stems bearing umbels of nodding, bell-shaped, fragrant rich yellow flowers 1.5cm in width
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