Badgeworth
Badgeworth was GWT’s first ever nature reserve and is home to the rare adder's-tongue spearwort more commonly known as the ‘Badgeworth buttercup’. The reserve is closed to the public but has…
Badgeworth was GWT’s first ever nature reserve and is home to the rare adder's-tongue spearwort more commonly known as the ‘Badgeworth buttercup’. The reserve is closed to the public but has…
Take this once a year opportunity to visit Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust's first Nature Reserve and see the Badgeworth Buttercup.
Meadow buttercup is a tall and stately buttercup, with buttery-yellow flowers that pepper meadows, pastures, gardens and parks with little drops of sunshine.
Creeping buttercup is our most familiar buttercup - the buttery-yellow flowers are like little drops of sunshine peppering garden lawns, parks, woods and fields.
The bulbous buttercup has the familiar butter-yellow flowers of its namesake, but grows from a bulb-like 'corm' (a swollen underground stem). Look for it on chalk and limestone…
Look out for the small, yellow flowers of Celery-leaved buttercup in wet meadows and at the edges of ponds and ditches. It flowers from May to September.
Broom is a large shrub of heaths, open woodlands and coastal habitats. Like gorse, it has bright yellow flowers, but it doesn't have any spines and smells of vanilla.
After two years of work by Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, the true beauty of Cirencester’s wildflower meadows is being revealed to the town’s residents and visitors.
The bloody henry starfish is normally a bright purply-red colour and is found all around the UK.
Bloody crane's-bill has striking magenta flowers that pepper our rare limestone pavements, grasslands and sand dunes with summer colour. It is a favourite of all kinds of insects, including…