Common Centaury or centaurium erythaea
Common Centaury is an annual that frequents dry banks, wood clearings, gravel pits and other open places on sandstone heaths.
Flowering between June and October, it can grow to a height of 15cm.
This ...
Common Cottongrass or eriophorum angustifolium
Common Cottongrass is a perennnial abundant in wet places on the moors. It differs from the hare's-tail cottongrass by having more than one flowering head.
Flowering between May and June, and fruiting ...
Consall Forge. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of the Caldon Canal at Consall Forge, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Consall Mill Bridge. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of Consall Mill Bridge spanning the Caldon Canal at Consall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Consall Mill. Photographed by William Blake.
View of the Caldon Canal and Consall Mill, Consall Valley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Consall Mill. Photographed by William Blake.
Winter scene including the Caldon Canal at Consall Mill, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Consall. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of the Caldon Canal at Consall, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Cowberry, or Vaccinium vitisidaea
You can spot this evergreen shrub on acid heaths and moors.
Flowering in pink or white between May and August, it can grow up to 30cm in height.
This example was found growing at Camp Hills near ...
Cowberry, or Vaccinium vitisidaea
An evergreen shrub of acid heaths and moors.
Its pink or white flowers are on display between May and August, and it produces fruit between August and October.
The cowberry can grow up to 30cm in ...
Cowslip, or Primula veris
This perennial plant appears often on limestone hillsides.
It will frequently hybridise with a primrose, producing an Oxslip.
Flowering between April and May, it can grow up to 30cm in height.
This ...
Dandelion or taraxacum officinale
Dandelion is a very common perennial of roadsides and fields. It is a weed of lawns. There are many similar species of Dandelion. The flowers only open in full sunlight.
Flowering between March and ...
Dolby's Potter's Mill, Lytton Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Pottery factory exterior including a calcining kiln.
Taken at Dolby's Potter's Mill, Lytton Street, Stoke-on-Trent.
The Trent and Mersey Canal can be seen in the foreground.
Taken from the Gladstone ...
Eastwood Works, Stoke-on-Trent.
This is the Eastwood pottery works in Stoke-on-Trent which was owned by J. & G. Meakin.
The company was well known for its ironstone china and white granite ware, much of which was sold in America ...
Endon Village, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape overlooking Endon village Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Eyebright or Euphrasia nemorosa
Eyebright is a perennial found in many limestone areas. It is one of several similar species.
Flowering between June and September, it can grow up to a height of 15cm.
This example was found growing ...
Foxglove or Digitalis purpurea
Foxglove, a biennial, prefers acidic soils in hedgerows and river banks.
Flowering between June and September and , it can grow up to 1m in height.
This example was found growing at Armitage in ...
Germander Speedwell or Veronica chamaedrys
Germander Speedwell is a common perennial found around hedgebanks.
Flowering between March and July, its can grow to a height of 35cm.
This example was found growing at Kinver in Staffordshire, ...
Great willowherb, or Epilobium hirsutum
You can find this perennial plant growing beside ditches, streams and canals, and in the woods.
Flowering between July and August, it can grow to a height of 1.5 metres.
This example was collected ...