Within the parish boundary, a great diversity of plant and tree life can be seen. To list each species would need a volume of its own. It is much easier to comment on the more unusual and rarer ones.<\/p>\n
Woodland Plants.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the woodlands of the Teme Valley, Small-leaved Lime can be found, an indication of ancient woodland. The ground flora includes swaths of Bluebell.<\/p>\n Sanicle<\/strong> : \u00a0a short hairless perennial with tiny whitish pink flowers, in flower from May to July.<\/p>\n Herb Paris<\/strong> : a difficult plant to find, is often in the damper parts of the wood. The flowers of the Herb Paris are yellow-green, starlike, flowering during May-June.<\/p>\n Nettle-leaved Bellflower<\/strong> : (a Campanula), This beautiful plant can be found in Kingswood and in the woodlands of Berrow Hill.<\/p>\n Birds Nest Orchid<\/strong> : is a golden honey-coloured plant that does not rely on chlorophyll containing cells but is dependent of a mycorrhiza fungus, thus sunlight is of little importance to it.<\/p>\n Toothwort<\/strong> : another parasitic woodland plant, pink-coloured, that feeds on the root system of Hazel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Amongst these are the Orchids. In Martley, the main areas these plants are found in are along the hill ridge between Penny Hill and Collins Green. Here as many as eight species can be seen, from the\u00a0Common Spotted\u00a0to the more unusual\u00a0Bee Orchids, the beautiful\u00a0Pyramidal Orchid,Butterfly Orchids\u00a0and the shade loving\u00a0Helleborine\u2019s.\u00a0Rock Rose\u00a0or\u00a0Helianthemum\u2019s\u00a0and\u00a0Carline Thistles.\u00a0Autumn Gentian\u00a0and\u00a0Wild Thyme.Dyers Greenweed\u00a0can be seen on the Penny Hill reserve.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Along the Teme,\u00a0Purple Loosestrife\u00a0and\u00a0Common Figwort\u00a0are found. Between May and August the highly scented\u00a0Dame\u2019s Violet\u00a0flowers, it is a member of the Cabbage family.<\/p>\n Local ponds<\/strong> have\u00a0White Water Lily,\u00a0Celery-leaved Buttercup\u00a0and various species of\u00a0Potamogeton\u2019s\u00a0( Pond weeds). At St. Peters pool, a plant with the strange name,\u00a0Trifid Bur Marigold\u00a0can be seen from June to October. On the mud edges of the shingle beaches of the Teme a small plant called\u00a0Marsh Cudweed\u00a0is found, its botanical name is\u00a0Gnaphalium uliginosum, far too ugly for such a lovely flower.<\/p>\n Cowslips<\/strong> are common in some areas.<\/p>\n Moon\u00a0Daisies<\/strong> line the verges of the main road and lanes. In the damper corners of grass fields,\u00a0Cuckoo Flowers,\u00a0(Cardamine pratensis), abound. On Berrow Hill, there are large numbers of Wild Daffodils to be seen.<\/p>\n Snowdrops<\/strong> are common on the edges of a number of woodlands..<\/p>\n Goatsbeard<\/strong> can be seen growing on the roadside verge between Martley and Laughern Brook Bridge.<\/p>\n Red Bartsia<\/strong> grows on the open fields at Collins Green.<\/p>\n Greater Mullein<\/strong>,\u00a0one of the tallest wild flowers, can be seen on open unused ground. This is a tall woolly plant with rows of yellow flowers. A local name for this plant was \u2018\u00a0Hags Taper\u2019 in the belief that witches would light the dead stems, to find their way at night.<\/p>\n There are many more plants to be found; an average botanist should come up with more than 400 species in the parish during the year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By kind permission of Brian Draper M.B.E<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last updated 14\/9\/05<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Within the parish boundary, a great diversity of plant and tree life can be seen. To list each species would need a volume of its own. It is much easier to comment on the more unusual and rarer ones. Woodland Plants. In the woodlands of the Teme Valley, Small-leaved Lime can be found, an indication […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":698,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Limestone Plants<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Aquatic and Marginal Plants<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nMeadow and other Plants.<\/strong><\/h2>\n