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Flower Names

  

 

 

Rural people knew much about the flowers and animals in the country although usually were referred to by local names rather than the Latin or national names.

Barbers brushes Teasel
Bread and Cheese Mallow
Bull daisies Ox-Eye
Butter and Eggs Narcissus
Cankers Berries of the dogrose
Cammocks Dried stems of the wild parsley
Come haste to the wedding Alyssum
Cow Mumble Hogweed
Five Fingers Primula
Gipsy Rhubarb Burdock
Grandfather Greybeard Clematis
Guttrich Dogwood
Hogknife Iris
Huntsmans Cap Iris
Jack at the garden gate Viola and heartsease
King Cups Marsh marigold
Lady's bonnets Columbine
Ladies Fingers Kidney Vetch
Lambs tails Hazel catkins
Milkmaids Meadow bitter cress
New Years Gift Winter aconite
Nip Noses Antirrhinum
Pigs Totles Birds Foot Trefoil
Ready Money Honesty
Red Hot Poker Torch Lily
Runaway Jack Ground ivy
Shirt Buttons Stitchwort
Sweet Betsy Saxifraga
Sweethearts Galium Aparine
Sention Groundsel
Travellers Joy Clematis

The source of this information was copies of the East Anglian magazine circa 1900 and 1901 supplemented by the memories of local older people.

 

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