# County flowers of the United Kingdom

In 2002 Plantlife conducted a "County Flowers" public survey to assign flowers to each of the counties of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. The results of this campaign designated a single plant species to a "county or metropolitan area" in the UK and Isle of Man. Some English counties already had flowers traditionally associated with them before 2002, and which were different from those assigned to them by Plantlife, including the white rose for Yorkshire (assigned the harebell), the poppy for Norfolk (assigned the Alexanders), and the cowslip for Essex (assigned the poppy). Some flowers were assigned to multiple counties.

## England

| County | Common name | Scientific name | County status | Shared |
| Bedfordshire | bee orchid | Ophrys apifera | native | |
| Berkshire | summer snowflake | Leucojum aestivum | native | |
| Bristol | Maltese-cross | Silene chalcedonica | casual | |
| Buckinghamshire | Chiltern gentian | Gentianella germanica | native | |
| Cambridgeshire | pasqueflower | Pulsatilla vulgaris | native | Hertfordshire |
| Cheshire | cuckooflower | Cardamine pratensis | native | Brecknockshire |
| Cornwall | Cornish heath | Erica vagans | native | |
| County Durham | spring gentian | Gentiana verna | native | |
| Cumberland | grass-of-Parnassus | Parnassia palustris | native | Sutherland |
| Derbyshire | Jacob's-ladder | Polemonium caeruleum | native | |
| Devon | primrose | Primula vulgaris | native | |
| Dorset | Dorset heath | Erica ciliaris | native | |
| Essex | common poppy | Papaver rhoeas | native | Norfolk |
| Gloucestershire | wild daffodil | Narcissus pseudonarcissus | native | |
| Greater Manchester | common cotton-grass | Eriophorum angustifolium | native | |
| Hampshire | dog-rose | Rosa canina | native | |
| Herefordshire | mistletoe | Viscum album | native | |
| Hertfordshire | pasqueflower | Pulsatilla vulgaris | native | Cambridgeshire |
| Huntingdonshire | water-violet | Hottonia palustris | native | |
| Isle of Wight | pyramidal orchid | Anacamptis pyramidalis | native | |
| Isles of Scilly | thrift | Armeria maritima | native | Bute & Pembrokeshire |
| Kent | hop | Humulus lupulus | native | |
| Lancashire | red rose | Rosa gallica officinalis | absent | |
| Leeds | bilberry | Vaccinium myrtillus | native | |
| Leicestershire | foxglove | Digitalis purpurea | native | Argyll, Monmouthshire & West Midlands |
| Lincolnshire | common dog-violet | Viola riviniana | native | |
| London | rosebay willowherb | Epilobium angustifolium | native | |
| Merseyside | sea-holly | Eryngium maritimum | native | |
| Middlesex | wood anemone | Anemone nemorosa | native | |
| Norfolk | common poppy | Papaver rhoeas | native | Essex |
| Northamptonshire | cowslip | Primula veris | native | Surrey & Worcestershire |
| Northumberland | bloody crane's-bill | Geranium sanguineum | native | |
| Nottingham | Nottingham catchfly | Silene nutans | native | |
| Nottinghamshire | autumn crocus | Crocus nudiflorus | archaeophyte | |
| Oxfordshire | snake's-head fritillary | Fritillaria meleagris | native | |
| Rutland | clustered bellflower | Campanula glomerata | native | |
| Sheffield | wood crane's-bill | Geranium sylvaticum | native | |
| Shropshire | round-leaved sundew | Drosera rotundifolia | native | |
| Somerset | Cheddar pink | Dianthus gratianopolitanus | native | |
| Staffordshire | heather | Calluna vulgaris | native | |
| Suffolk | oxlip | Primula elatior | native | |
| Surrey | cowslip | Primula veris | native | Northamptonshire & Worcestershire |
| Sussex | round-headed rampion | Phyteuma orbiculare | native | |
| Tyne and Wear | monkeyflower | Mimulus guttatus | neophyte | |
| Warwickshire | honeysuckle | Lonicera periclymenum | native | |
| West Midlands | foxglove | Digitalis purpurea | native | Argyll, Leicestershire & Monmouthshire |
| Westmorland | alpine forget-me-not | Myosotis alpestris | native | |
| Wiltshire | burnt-tip orchid | Neotinea ustulata | native | |
| Worcestershire | cowslip | Primula veris | native | Northamptonshire & Surrey |
| Yorkshire | harebell | Campanula rotundifolia | native | Antrim & Dumfriesshire |

## Isle of Man

| County | Image | Common name | Scientific name | County status | Shared |
| Isle of Man | | fuchsia | Fuchsia magellanica | neophyte | |

## Northern Ireland

| County | Common name | Scientific name | County status | Shared |
| Antrim | harebell | Campanula rotundifolia | native | Dumfriesshire & Yorkshire |
| Armagh | cowbane | Cicuta virosa | native | |
| Belfast | gorse | Ulex europaeus | native | |
| Londonderry | purple saxifrage | Saxifraga oppositifolia | native | |
| Down | spring squill | Scilla verna | native | |
| Fermanagh | globeflower | Trollius europaeus | native | |
| Tyrone | bog-rosemary | Andromeda polifolia | native | Ceredigion & Kirkcudbright |

## Scotland

| County | Common name | Scientific name | County status | Shared |
| Aberdeenshire | bearberry | Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | native | |
| Angus | Alpine catchfly | Silene suecica | native | |
| Argyll | foxglove | Digitalis purpurea | native | Leicestershire, Monmouthshire & West Midlands |
| Ayrshire | green-winged orchid | Anacamptis morio | native | |
| Banffshire | dark-red helleborine | Epipactis atrorubens | native | |
| Berwickshire | rock-rose | Helianthemum nummularium | native | |
| Bute | thrift | Armeria maritima | native | Isles of Scilly & Pembrokeshire |
| Caithness | Scottish primrose | Primula scotica | native | |
| Clackmannanshire | opposite-leaved golden-saxifrage | Chrysosplenium oppositifolium | native | |
| Cromarty | spring cinquefoil | Potentilla neumanniana | native | |
| Dumfriesshire | harebell | Campanula rotundifolia | native | Antrim & Yorkshire |
| Dunbartonshire | lesser water-plantain | Baldellia ranunculoides | native | |
| East Lothian | viper's-bugloss | Echium vulgare | native | |
| Fife | coralroot orchid | Corallorrhiza trifida | native | |
| Glasgow | broom | Cytisus scoparius | native | |
| Inverness-shire | twinflower | Linnaea borealis | native | |
| Kinross | holy-grass | Hierochloe odorata | native | |
| Kirkcudbright | bog-rosemary | Andromeda polifolia | native | Ceredigion & Tyrone |
| Lanarkshire | dune helleborine | Epipactis leptochila | native | |
| Midlothian | sticky catchfly | Silene viscaria | native | |
| Moray | one-flowered wintergreen | Moneses uniflora | native | |
| Nairn | chickweed wintergreen | Trientalis europaea | native | |
| Orkney | Alpine bearberry | Arctostaphylos alpina | native | |
| Peeblesshire | cloudberry | Rubus chamaemorus | native | |
| Perthshire | Alpine gentian | Gentiana nivalis | native | |
| Renfrewshire | bogbean | Menyanthes trifoliata | native | |
| Ross | bog asphodel | Narthecium ossifragum | native | |
| Roxburghshire | maiden pink | Dianthus deltoides | native | |
| Selkirkshire | mountain pansy | Viola lutea | native | |
| Shetland | Shetland mouse-ear | Cerastium nigrescens | native | |
| Stirlingshire | Scottish dock | Rumex aquaticus | native | |
| Sutherland | grass-of-Parnassus | Parnassia palustris | native | Cumbria |
| West Lothian | common spotted-orchid | Dactylorhiza fuchsii | native | |
| Western Isles | Hebridean spotted-orchid | Dactylorhiza fuchsii subsp. hebridensis | native | |
| Wigtownshire | yellow iris | Iris pseudacorus | native | |

## Wales

| County | Common name | Scientific name | County status | Shared |
| Anglesey | spotted rock-rose | Tuberaria guttata | native | |
| Brecknockshire | cuckooflower | Cardamine pratensis | native | Cheshire |
| Caernarfonshire | Snowdon lily | Gagea serotina, syn. Lloydia serotina | native | |
| Cardiff | wild leek | Allium ampeloprasum | native | |
| Carmarthenshire | whorled caraway | Carum verticillatum | native | |
| Ceredigion | bog-rosemary | Andromeda polifolia | native | Kirkcudbright & Tyrone |
| Denbighshire | limestone woundwort | Stachys alpina | native | |
| Flintshire | bell heather | Erica cinerea | native | |
| Glamorgan | yellow whitlow-grass | Draba aizoides | native | |
| Merioneth | Welsh poppy | Papaver cambricum | native | |
| Monmouthshire | foxglove | Digitalis purpurea | native | Argyll, Leicestershire & West Midlands |
| Montgomeryshire | spiked speedwell | Veronica spicata | native | |
| Pembrokeshire | thrift | Armeria maritima | native | Bute & Isles of Scilly |
| Radnorshire | Radnor lily | Gagea bohemica | native | |