Flora

Due to the mixed land use, a large variety of plants and fungi can be found in Apedale.  Proximity to residential and commercial areas means that there are a good few escapees among the wild flowers.  There are also plants that although not indigenous, are now naturalised in the wild in general.

Pyramidal Orchid - A rare find, this example, was unique in 2014.

At least one of these plants is very rare (I know of only one in the area).  Where a plant is more typical of an area other than the one shown, this is stated.  The photographs are in date order so that you can find flowers to be expected at a particular time of year.

Much of the local fauna will depend on the local flora.  According to Wikipedia, Ragwort alone "provides a home and food source to at least 77 insect species. Thirty of these species of invertebrate use Ragwort exclusively as their food source^[8] and there are another 22 species where Ragwort forms a significant part of their diet" and "..English Nature identify a further 117 species who use Ragwort as a nectar source whilst travelling between feeding and breeding sites, or between metapopulations.^[8]". 



A gallery of the flowers I have photographed in Apedale can be found here.  The location at which each pictorial record was made is shown on a map to the right of the image.  I have tagged the images so that you can search the gallery by colour/flowering month.  To limit the number of possible tags I have kept my colour descriptions broad.  Search on one of the following; White, Pink, Red, Yellow, Orange, Purple, Blue.  Only main colour is tagged.  Where more than one colour variety exists, the image may be of a different colour to that searched.

Many of the plants will bear fruits, nuts seeds etcetera at one time of year.  A gallery of plants in fruit (including nuts, seeds etc.) can be found here. 

Two bright non indigenous plants - Left, Orange Hawkweed a naturalised escape.   Right, Montbretia a localised escape (usually close to the source).