Also known as garlic mustard, this biennial spring flower smells remarkably like garlic when the stems are crushed. The leaves are bright green in early spring, darkening as the year advances.

Appropriately named, this is a plant of hedgerows, but in shaded places you will also find it lining riverbanks. The best of the flowers appear in April and early May, but you can occasionally find a few blooms right through until August.

Wildflowers of Wales This wildflower is one of many dozens that are featured in the First Nature Guide to the Wonderful Wildflowers of Wales, Volume 1 - Woodland and Waysides. Sample pages... Order online... Order by post...