Like primroses and bluebells, cowslips are a colourful and popular wild flower.
But unlike the other two, cowslips are not a woodland flower. So we need open grassland to promote them and that is what we strive to maintain at Filnore Woods, despite the invasive tendencies of thug plants like nettles, willow herb, bramble, cow parsley and creeping buttercup. This is why we have to cut and remove the grass in midsummer. If it's cut and left it acts as a nitrogen-rich fertiliser, which favours the thugs.
The cowslip is also known as 'Bunch of Keys' from the arrangement of its flowers, drooping on one side of the stem.
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