For the love of plants

A tiny fossilized plant from the lower Devonian period approx. 410 million years ago. Along with other members of its group, the Rhyniophytes, cooksonia is interpreted as the ancestor of land plants, paving the way for the evolution of mammals. This one I found in a roadside quarry in Herefordshire.

(Paris quadrifolia) Gait Barrows Lancashire

Montana Rosa Reserve, Tenerife.

The lush, impressive Macaronesian Ferns, Diplazium caudatum and Culcita macrocarpa flourish in the cloud forests of Madeira and the azores, Laurus novocanariensis puts down aeriac roots into the humid atmosphere.

Gentiana verna flowers on Widdybank Fell, May Upper Teesdale Durham.

Narcissus pseudonarcissus flower in meadows near Newent, Gloucestershire.

Snow Gentians flower on alpine Screes in the Breadalbane Mountains Stirling.