Blue Flowering Plants

The first thing you will notice about the Viper’s Bugloss is the way the rows of flower-buds curl like a scorpion. The plant is common in most parts of the country, in waste places, by shingly sea beaches, and on chalky soil. It flowers in summer and autumn. The Viper’s Bugloss is a stout, upright […]

The Corn Flower or Blue Bottle is common all over Britain; you find it in the cornfields and by the roadside, and it flowers all summer and autumn. This pretty plant belongs to the same family as the Thistles. The flower-heads are made up of a great many flowers grouped together. In the outer row […]

Every child knows the pale blue Forget-me-not with its dainty flowers. It has many varieties which are found all over the country, but the Water Forget-me-not is one of the loveliest, and grows abundantly in ditches and marshes from spring to autumn. It is a tall straggling plant, with long flower-stalks which grow singly on […]

The Blue Meadow Crane’s-bill is one of our handsomest wildflowers. It is to be found by the edge of the fields and in the meadows all over Britain in summer and autumn. This plant is related to the beautiful geranium which grows in our gardens. The flowers have five large petals. In front these petals […]

The Wild Succory is abundant all over England, but is not so plentiful in Scotland. It grows by the borders of fields, in waste places or by the roadside, and it blooms in late summer and autumn. The flowers are like large blue dandelions. They have no stalks, but grow from top to bottom of […]

The Brooklime Speedwell is quite as common as its cousin the blue Germander Speedwell, but it grows in damp places. You find it in ditches and beside slow-running streams, and the flowers are in bloom from spring to autumn. The plant has a round juicy stem, which is hollow in the middle. It rises straight […]

The Borage is not a very common plant, though it is widely distributed throughout the country. You find it on hedge-banks and in waste places, and it blooms in summer and autumn. It has beautiful bright blue flowers, with five petals which are gracefully pointed at the tips. These flowers droop either singly or in […]

Some people do not consider this one of our native plants, but it is widely distributed over the country. You find it in hedge-banks and by the roadside in spring and autumn. The Alkanet is an erect, hairy plant, which is not quite so bristly as its cousin, the Common Borage. The flowers have small […]

This curious plant grows on sandy seashores in England, but it is not common in Scotland, and it will not grow far North. The flowers grow in clover-shaped heads at the ends of very stiff stems. These flowers are very small, of a whitish-blue colour, and they are not at all attractive. If you examine […]

The Tufted Vetch is a very common plant, and all summer-time you find its masses of bright blue or purple flowers growing up the hedges. It belongs to the large family of Pea-plants, along with the Broom and the Trefoils, and you will find that its bright bluish-purple petals are shaped as curiously as those […]