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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.
AIDGAP is an acronym for Aid to Identification in Difficult Groups of Animals and Plants. The AIDGAP series is a set of books published by the Field Studies Council . They are intended to enable students and interested non-specialists to identify groups of taxa in Britain which are not covered by standard field guides .
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The flora of Scotland is an assemblage of native plant species including over 1,600 vascular plants, more than 1,500 lichens and nearly 1,000 bryophytes.The total number of vascular species is low by world standards but lichens and bryophytes are abundant and the latter form a population of global importance.
It produces 3–6 linear leaves, all growing from the base of the plant, and each 7–16 millimetres (0.28–0.63 in) wide. [11] An inflorescence of 5–12 (exceptionally 3–32) flowers is borne on a stem up to 500 mm (20 in) tall, which droops towards the tip; [2] the flowers are arranged in a 1-sided nodding raceme. [8]
The leaves are alternate, trifoliate (with three leaflets), each leaflet 15–30 mm (5 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) long and 8–15 mm (3 ⁄ 8 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) broad, green with a characteristic pale crescent in the outer half of the leaf; the petiole is 1–4 cm (1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, with two basal stipules that are abruptly narrowed ...
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The Wild Flower Key — How to identify wild plants, trees and shrubs in Britain and Ireland, 1981. [2] ISBN 0-723-22418-8 LCCN 81-163983 Revised by Clare O'Reilly, 2006. Frederick Warne. ISBN 0-7232-5175-4. Colour Identification Guide to the Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns of the British Isles and North Western Europe, 1989. Viking.