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The flora of Great Britain and Ireland is one of the best documented in the world. There are 1390 native species and over 1100 well-established non-natives documented on the islands. A bibliographic database of the species has been compiled by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. [1] The lists (spread across multiple pages due to size ...
In 2002 Plantlife conducted a "County Flowers" public survey to assign flowers to each of the counties of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. The results of this campaign designated a single plant species to a "county or metropolitan area" in the UK and Isle of Man. Some English counties already had flowers traditionally associated with them before 2002, and which were different from those ...
The Monarch is the living embodiment of the United Kingdom. Symbols of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man is a list of the national symbols of the United Kingdom, its constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), and the Crown Dependencies (the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man).
A few endemic species are Arctic-Alpine species, survivors of Arctic species of plants and animals which either adapted to the warming climate or became isolated in suitable areas of mountains or lakes which still retained a suitable micro-climate. A common misconception is that the entirety of the British Isles was under glaciers and was ...
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns, and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic. List of animal sounds
Achillea millefolium, commonly known as yarrow ( / ˈjæroʊ /) or common yarrow, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Growing to 1 metre ( feet) tall, it is characterized by small whitish flowers, a tall stem of fernlike leaves, and a pungent odor. The plant is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Asia, Europe ...
Flowers. The cuckoo flower ( Cardamine pratensis ), a herbaceous perennial, can be found throughout Wales. Bog rosemary ( Andromeda polifolia ), a small flowering shrub, can be found in central Wales. Within the British Isles, the Snowdon lily ( Gagea serotina) is found only on the slopes of Snowdon. [2]
The flower is the national flower of Iran since the Achaemenid Empire era (552 BC). Darius the great holds a water lily In Persepolis Israel The poppy anemone, Israel's national flower. The national flower of Israel is the poppy anemone (Anemone coronaria; calanit metzuya in Hebrew), chosen in 2013 to replace Cyclamen persicum. Japan