Bluebell wood
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A bluebell wood is a woodland that in springtime has a carpet of flowering bluebells underneath a newly forming leaf canopy. The thicker the summer canopy, the more the competitive ground-cover is sup
A bluebell wood, near Lampeter in Wales
Hallerbos, Belgium
Bluebell wood in May, Buckinghamshire, England
Hyacinthoides non-scripta
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Hyacinthoides non-scripta is a bulbous perennial plant found in Atlantic areas from the north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula to the British Isles, and also frequently used as a garden plant. It
Bluebell wood
…A bluebell wood is a woodland that in springtime has a carpet of flowering bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) underneath a newly forming leaf canopy. The thicker the summer canopy, the more the competitive ground-cover is suppressed, encouraging a dense carpet…
Hyacinthoides non scripta
H. non-scripta has dark flowers in one-sided, nodding racemes, with strongly recurved petals and white pollen.
H. hispanica has paler flowers produced on all sides of the upright stem, less recurved petals and blue pollen.
Bluebells in Pryor's Wood, Hertfordshire