Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea) were growing all over the place in Edale. Foxgloves are a popular garden plant but these self-seeded wildlings look altogether tougher.

 Another tough customer: Cirsium palustre -and equally prolific. It probably helps that both are inedible to the roaming cows and sheep. C. palustre is viciously spiny and D. purpurea is poisonous to animals (including humans). Bumblebees however were all over them and these two plants appeared to be their main food source at this point of the year.

 I only saw these in one spot which was by a shady babbling brook. This is our native Bistort (Persicaria bistorta). I gather they're not uncommon but I've never seen them in the wild before.