Introduce someone you love to wild flowers by adopting a cowslip for them for £20 a year. We'll send a personalised certificate, fact sheet and an A5 postcard. Your support will boost Plantlife's wild plant conservation programmes.

One of the best loved spring flowers, cowslips now adorn meadows, road-verges and churchyards in which wild flowers are spared the mower. They occur on chalky, well-drained soils and in recent years are commonly to be seen on motorway banks.

Cowslips are common in England but rare in some parts of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Cowslips are an important plant food for the caterpillar of the Duke of Burgundy fritillary butterfly.

When you adopt a flower, you are making a donation to help create a world rich in plants and fungi. Your adoption will be used to support Plantlife’s work in the most effective way possible to make a difference to nature.  We can only continue our conservation work thanks to the difference you make.

If you intend to give this as a gift - please make sure to add who the gift is from in the personal message.

Image ©Roger Butterfield/Plantlife and ©Laurie Campbell