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You will find listed here, in alphabetical order by Common Name, all the British Wild Flowers species who's common name begins with "S" from our Flora and Fauna database. As there are a large number of species with similar names we have included the genus, species, phylum, family and kingdom to help you correctly select the one you are looking for. If we have images available the number of images is displayed in the right hand column and a link appears to those images under the species name.
All the wild flowers below are of the Kingdom Planate (Tracheobionta) and the Phylum Magnoliophyta.
This page only displays species that have common names, there is likely to be many more members of this species
in the main database that are found either in or around the British Isles or somewhere within the United Kingdom
that do not have common names they will however be marked native
, introduced
, etc. To access these
return to Flora and Fauna Menu and use the World Wildlife sub-menu.
If photographs are available the species name is displayed in bold with the camera icon
beside it along with the number of photos available. Similarly if
other types of image, e.g. paintings or drawings, are available the image icon
is displayed along with the number of images. To view the images click on the species name.
Where species are at risk or endangered the Common Name is displayed in red emboldened text.
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Safflower |
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Safflower. Downy, Woolly distaff thistle |
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Sage. Kitchen, |
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Sage. Wood, woodland germander |
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Sainfoin |
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Salsify |
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Saltmarsh-grass. Borrer's, Torrey alkaligrass |
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Saltmarsh-grass. Common, Seaside alkaligrass |
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Saltmarsh-grass. Refelexed, spreading alkali grass |
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Saltmarsh-grass. Stiff, British alkaligrass |
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Saltwort, Prickly, tumbleweed |
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Samphire, Golden |
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Samphire. Rock, |
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Sand-grass. Early, |
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Sandwort. Arctic, |
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Sandwort. English, |
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Sandwort. Fine-leaved, |
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Sandwort. Fringed, |
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Sandwort. Mountain or Beautiful, |
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Sandwort. Recurved, |
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Sandwort. Sea, Seaside sandplant |
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Sandwort. Slender, |
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Sandwort. Spring, Vernal stitchwort |
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Sandwort. Teesdale, Bog stitchwort |
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Sandwort. Three-nerved, |
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Sandwort. Thymeleaf, |
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Sandwort. Thyme-leaved, |
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Sanicle |
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Saw-wort. Alpine, |
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Saw-wort. Dyer's Plumeless, |
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Saxifrage. Alpine, |
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Saxifrage. Alternate-leaved Golden, |
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Saxifrage. Celandine, |
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Saxifrage. Drooping or Nodding, |
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Saxifrage. Highland or Weak, |
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Saxifrage. Irish, |
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Saxifrage. Kidney, |
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Saxifrage. Marsh or Yellow Marsh, |
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Saxifrage. Meadow, |
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Saxifrage. Mossy, |
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Saxifrage. Mossy, |
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Saxifrage. Opposite-leaved Golden, |
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Saxifrage. Pepper, |
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Saxifrage. Purple or Purple Mountain, |
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Saxifrage. Round-leaved, |
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Saxifrage. Rue-Leaved or Rueleaf, |
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Saxifrage. Starry, |
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Saxifrage. Tufted, |
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Saxifrage. Yellow or Yellow Mountain, |
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Scabious, Devilsbit or Devil's-bit |
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Scabious. Field, Field Scabious, bluebuttons |
Knautia arvensis
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Scabious. Sheeps or Sheep's-bit |
Jasione montana
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Scabious. Small, dove pincushions |
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Scurvygrass. Common, |
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Scurvygrass. Danish or Early, |
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Scurvygrass. English, |
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Scurvygrass. Mountain, |
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Scurvygrass. Pyrenean, |
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Scurvygrass. Scottish, |
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Seablite. Annual, herbaceous seepweed |
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Sea-blite. Shrubby, |
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Sea-buckthorn |
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Sea-kale, Greater |
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Sea-lavender. Alderney, |
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Sea-lavender. Broad-leaved, |
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Sea-lavender. Common or Mediterranean, |
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Sea-lavender. Lax-flowered, |
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Sea-lavender. Matted, |
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Sea-lavender. Rock, |
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Sea-purslane |
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Sea-purslane. Pedunculate, |
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Sea-spurrey. Greater, |
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Sea-spurrey. Greek, Boccone's sandspurry |
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Sea-spurrey. Lesser, Saltmarsh sand spurry |
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Sea-spurrey. Rock, |
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Sedge |
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Sedge. Bigelow's, |
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Sedge. Bird's-foot, |
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Sedge. Black Alpine, |
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Sedge. Blister, Bladder-sedge |
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Sedge. Boreal bog, Tall Bog-sedge |
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Sedge. Bottle, |
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Sedge. Buxbaum's, or Club, |
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Sedge. Carnation, |
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Sedge. Common, |
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Sedge. Creeping or String, |
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Sedge. Curved, |
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Sedge. Cypresslike or Cyperus, |
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Sedge. Darkbrown, Scorched Alpine-sedge |
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Sedge. Davall's, |
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Sedge. Dioecious, |
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Sedge. Distant, |
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Sedge. Dotted, |
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Sedge. Downy-fruited, |
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Sedge. Dwarf, |
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Sedge. Elongated, |
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Sedge. Estuary or Estuarine, |
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Sedge. Few-flowered, |
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Sedge. Fewseeded bog or Bristle, |
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Sedge. Fibrous Tussock, |
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