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A list of county flowers of Norway. County Image Norwegian name Scientific name; Akershus: Hepatica nobilis: Blåveis: Hepatica nobilis: Aust-Agder: Lonicera ...
The native flora of Norway; According to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions this excludes Svalbard. See Category:Flora of Svalbard.
The leaves are under 1 cm long, with a few shallow teeth on the upper half. The perennial stems of Linnaea borealis are slender, pubescent, and prostrate, growing to 20–40 centimetres (8– 15 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) long, with opposite evergreen rounded oval leaves 3–10 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 8 in) long and 2–7 mm (1 ⁄ 16 – 1 ⁄ 4 in) broad.
For an island so far north, this number of species constitutes an astonishing variety of plant life. Because of the harsh climate and the short growing season, all the plants are slow growing. They seldom grow higher than 10 cm (4 in) In some areas, especially in warmer valleys, the plants produce carpets of blossoms.
Vegetation zones in Norway include forests, bogs, wetlands and heaths. Boreal species are adapted to the long, cold winters but need a growing season of sufficient length and warmth. Thus typical boreal species include the Norway spruce and pine, while at higher altitudes deciduous trees like downy birch, grey alder, aspen and rowan predominate.
The leaves and stems are brewed for herbal tea: According to many Nunavummiut, the tea is best later in the season once the flowers have died. [6] Saxifraga oppositifolia serves as the territorial flower of Nunavut in Canada, [6] a symbolic flower of Nordland county in Norway, and the county flower of County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
Primula vulgaris is a perennial growing 10–30 centimetres (4–12 inches) tall, with a basal rosette of leaves which are more-or-less evergreen in favoured habitats. The leaves are 5–25 cm (2–10 in) long and 2–6 cm (1– 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) broad, often heavily wrinkled, with an irregularly crenate to dentate margin.
In May or June the tall panicles of white flowers, branched and pyramidal in outline, may reach 60 cm (24 in). It is one of Norway's two national flowers (chosen in 1935). Its relationship to the "silver saxifrages" (Saxifraga sect. Ligulatae) remains to be resolved to full satisfaction.
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