Bluebell

Bluebells have long stems with small bell shaped flowers drooping from the ends.

The flowers are a blue or violet colour with small cream anthers at their centre. The leaves emerge from underground bulbs in early spring and the flowers are in bloom in April and May.

Bluebells grow in shady places and can be found carpeting the floor of many of the woods in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. They are most common in the south, which is the most wooded area of the county.

Bluebells are protected through general provisions in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which make it illegal to intentionally uproot a wild plant.