bitter fleabane
blue fleabane
erigeron acris latin

Common names include bitter fleabane and blue fleabane.

Common names include bitter fleabane and blue fleabane.

The trackbed supports hairy violet, autumn gentian, blue fleabane and large thyme (Thymus pulegioides).

Even the common names of wildflowers - stitchwort, lady's bedstraw, blue fleabane, feverfew -have an inescapable enchantment about them.

The wood is open, with grass clearings, and there is a pond which has rare London plants such as blue fleabane and hare's-foot clover.

The flora found on the site includes: many types of Orchid, Broomrape, Twayblade, Blue fleabane and Carline thistle.

Flowering plants in the open ground include blue fleabane, bee orchid, knapweed, broomrape and grass-leaved vetchling (the latter is uncommon in the Cotswolds).

The "Pineappleweed" smells of pineapples if you walk on it. Another flower, the Blue Fleabane, is very similar to the cultivated Michaelmas Daisy.

These include kidney vetch, cowslip, yellow-wort, ploughman's-spikenard (Inula conyza), large thyme (Thymus pulegioides), blue fleabane and the common spotted-orchid.

Other species recorded include Harebell, Carline Thistle, Dwarf Thistle, Fairy Flax and Blue Fleabane.

Visiting the Down in early September, I found Blue Fleabane in some abundance still flowering amongst the young trees on the higher ground of Youth and Magog Woods.