The Flora of Elsfield in 1927
Taken from The Manor of Elsfield by George Norman Clark, M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, for private publication. 1927.
There are 329 plants found in the parish.
| Traveller’s Joy | Wood anemone | Meadow rue |
| Lesser celandine | Creeping buttercup | Meadow buttercup |
| Bulbous buttercup | Great spearwort | Lesser spearwort |
| Corn buttercup | Celery-leaved buttercup | Small-flowered buttercup |
| Water crowfoot | Ivy ranunculus | Marsh marigold |
| Red poppy | Pale poppy | Greater celandine |
| Yellow corydalis | Climbing corydalis | Fumitory |
| Hairy rock cress | Watercress | Cuckoo flower |
| Hairy bitter cress | Common erodium | Wood sorrel |
| Spindle tree | Holly | Alder buckthorn |
| Gorse | Dyer’s greenwood | Rest harrow |
| Lady’s fingers | Lucernce | Black medick |
| Zigzag cover | Red clover | Crimson clover |
| Hare’s foot trefoil | Trefoil | Strawberry-headed trefoil |
| Dutch trefoil | Hop trefoil | Lesser trefoil |
| Bird’s foot trefoil | Horseshoe vetch | Milk vetch |
| Sainfoin | Meadow vetchling | Tufted vetch |
| Bush vetch | Common vetch | Spring vetch |
| Hairy vetch | Slender vetch | Blackthorn |
| Wild cherry or gean | Meadow sweet | Dropwort |
| Blackberry | Dewberry | Silver weed |
| Cinquefoil | Tormentil | Barren strawberry |
| Water avens | Herb bennet (hybrids of these in Elsfield copses) | Field rose |
| Sweet briar | Agrimony | Dog rose |
| Burnet rose | Salad burnet | Parsley piert |
| Great burnet | White bryony | Crab apple |
| Hawthorn | Marsh Epilobium | Codlins and cream |
| Broad-leaved epilobium | Knawel | Enchanter’s nightshade |
| Purple loosestrife | Rue-leaved saxifrage | Golden stonecrop |
| Meadow saxifrage | Hedge parsley | Golden saxifrage |
| Wild carrot | Hog weed | Spreading caucalis |
| Angelica | Hemlock | Fool’s parlsey |
| Water dropwort | Pig nut | Rouch chervil |
| Shepherd’s needle | Burnet saxifrage | Great water parsnip |
| Gout weed | Ivy | Wild celery |
| Wood sanicle | Wayfaring tree | Dogwood |
| Guelder rose | Perfoliate honeysuckle | Elder |
| Adoxa or moschatel | Heath bedstraw | Woodbine |
| Lady’s bedstraw | Crosswort | Marsh bedstraw |
| Goosegrass | Lamb’s lettuce | Field madder |
| Marsh valerian | Teasel | Field scabious |
| Devil’s bit scabious | Chamomile | Ragwort |
| Groundsel | Sneezewort | Corn chamomile |
| Stinking mayweed | Ox eye daisy | Yarrow |
| Corn marigold | Mugwort | Feverfew |
| Wormwood | Purple fleabane | Marsh cudweed |
| Heath cudweed | Hemp agrimony | Daisy |
| Ploughman’s spikenard | Carline thistle | Butter burr |
| Coltsfoot | Woolly headed thistle | Burdock |
| Cotton thistle | Musk thistle | Spear thistle |
| Meadow thistle | Hardheads | Saw wort |
| Knapweed | Sowthistle | Cornflower |
| St Barnabas thistle (rare) | Mouse-ear hawkweed | Wall lettuce |
| Dandelion | Ox tongue (on clay) | Crepis |
| Goat’s beard | Harebell | Nipplewort |
| Nettle-leaved bellflower | Yellow bird’s nest | Corn campanula |
| Sheep’s bit | Comfrey | Monotropa (rare) |
| Dodder | Corn gromwell | Field bugloss |
| Viper’s bugloss | Early forget-me-not | Forget-me-not |
| Hound’s tongue | Black solanum | Henbane |
| Bittersweet | Figwort | Aaron’s rod |
| Great mullein | Pointed linaria | Water betony |
| Yellow toadflax | Germander speedwell | Ivy-leaved toadflax (“Oxford weed”) |
| Speedwell | Brooklime | Thyme-leaved speedwell |
| Water speedwell | Yellow rattle | Lousewort |
| Eyebright | Bugle | Selfheal |
| Vervain | Red dead nettle | Henbit |
| White dead nettle | Red hemp nettle | Wood betony |
| Weasle shout (yellow archangel) | Woundwort | Black horehound |
| Ground ivy | Wild basil | Basil thyme |
| Thyme | Horse mint | Gipsywort |
| Yellow loosestrife | Creeping jenny | Pimpernel |
| Primrose | Cowslip | Ribwort plantain |
| Hoary plantain | Dock | Sorrel |
| Black bindweed | Pale polygonum | Knot grass |
| Dog’s mercury | Sun spurge | Wood spurge |
| Petty spurge | Nettle | Wall Pellitory |
| Hop | Wych Elm | Elm |
| Beech | Hornbeam | Hazel |
| White poplar | Black poplar | Bay-leaved willow |
| Crack willow | Osier | Sallow |
| Alder | Water plantain | Horned pondweed |
| Epipactis | Tway-blade | Green-winged orchis |
| Marsh orchis | Early purple orchis | Spotted orchis |
| Spotted orchis | Butterfly orchis | Frog orchis |
| Bee orchis | Yellow iris | Roast beef plant |
| Black briony | Bluebell | Thyme-leaved sandwort |
| Three-nerved sandwort | Knotted pearlwort | Cornspurry |
| Sandspurry | Flax | Cathartic flax |
| Musk mallow (white flowers, Sescut Wood) | Common mallow | Dwarf mallow |
| Slender St John’s wort | Tutsan | Hairy St John’s wort |
| Sycamore | Square-stalked St John’s wort | Creeping St John’s wort |
| Horse chestnut | Meadow crane’s bill | Maple |
| Long-stalked geranium | Cut-leaved geranium | Mountain geranium |
| Round-leaved geranium | Small-flowered geranium | Dove’s foot geranium |
| Large bittercress | Thalecress | Herb Robert |
| Wild mustard charlock | Whitlow grass | Hedge mustard |
| Mithridate pepper-wort | Shepherd’s purse | Pennycress |
| Rock rose | Dog violet | Dyer’s rocket |
| White violet | Hairy violet | Sweet violet |
| Milkwort | Corncockle | Wild pansy |
| Red campion | White campion | Ragged robin |
| Water chickweed | Field chickweed | Bladder campion |
| Greater stitchwort | Lesser stitchwort | Mouse-eared chickweed |
| Barberry | White waterlily | Columbine (rare) |
| Mignonette | Soapwort | Yellow waterlily |
| Melilot | Wild cherry | Lime tree |
| Flowering rush | Lords and ladies | Lady’s mantle |
| Arrowhead | Pyramidal orchis | Allium |
| Goldilocks | Meadow saffron |