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A list of Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae and Angiospermae including all the native plants and established aliens known to occur in Ireland with the distribution of each species, and recommended Irish and English names. pp. [i]-xxvii, 1-171, map. Dublin: Stationery Office. Reynolds, S.C.P. (2002). A catalogue of alien plants in Ireland. pp. [4], 1 ...
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. [1] The results of this campaign designated a single plant species to a "county or metropolitan area" in the UK and Isle of Man. [2] Some English counties already had flowers traditionally associated with them before 2002, [3] and which were ...
Microniphargus leruthi – found across Ireland, Wales and Southern England. Comprises three 'cryptic species'. Niphargus glennei (Spooner) – the south-western ground water shrimp is found in Cornwall and Devon. [13] Niphargus irlandicus – found in aquifers and cave systems across most of southern and central Ireland
The Cornish national flower is variously said to be either broom, [8] furze (gorse), [9] rhododendron, [10] or Cornish heath. [11] The Cornish national tree is the sessile oak, [12] known in Cornwall as the Cornish oak. [13] Thrift (Armeria maritima) was chosen by the plant conservation charity Plantlife as the "county flower" of the Isles of ...
Pulsatilla nuttalliana (as the synonym P. patens) is the provincial flower of Manitoba, Canada [9] and (as the synonym P. hirsutissima) the state flower of the US state of South Dakota. [10] Pulsatilla vulgaris is the County flower for both Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire in England. [11] Pulsatilla vernalis is the county flower of Oppland ...
This designation was made in 1933 by the state legislature. Although the law does not specifically define a type of iris, it is generally accepted that the purple iris is the state flower. [10] The blue flag has been the provincial flower of Quebec since 1999, having replaced the Madonna lily which is not native to the province. [11] [12]
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It is the county flower of Cumberland in England, and appears on its flag. [5] The name comes from ancient Greece: evidently the cattle on Mount Parnassus appreciated the plant; hence it was an "honorary grass". [6] The specific epithet palustris is Latin for "of the marsh" and indicates its common habitat. [7]