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Scania and Hälsingland violently opposed the plants that were selected to represent them; Scania was given European Beech but wanted oxeye daisy, while Hälsingland was given Scots Pine but wanted flax. Erik E:son Hammar, a pastor and politician in Sweden, granted the two provinces' wish to change their province flowers in 1909. [2]
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For the purposes of this category, "Northern Europe" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), namely as a region within the botanical continent of Europe that includes the following areas, typically defined by the political boundaries of its constituents: Denmark; Finland; the Faroe ...
Primula scandinavica is a perennial plant, which possesses a basal rosette of leaves. The leaves are around 2–4 cm long, narrow at the base, yet broad and rounded at the tip. [ 3 ] Flowers are based on the top of stalks ranging from 4–10 cm tall. [ 3 ]
Flora typical of the Alpine Region of the Alps. The Alps are one of the great mountain range systems of Europe stretching approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.
Noccaea caerulescens is a low biennial or perennial plant that has small basal rosettes of stalked elliptic–lanceolate leaves with entire margins. The one or more flowering stems have small stalkless, alternate leaves clasping the stem.
Tripleurospermum maritimum (syn. Matricaria maritima [1]) is a species of flowering plant in the aster family commonly known as false mayweed [2] or sea mayweed.It is found in many coastal areas of Northern Europe, including Scandinavia and Iceland, often growing in sand or amongst beach pebbles.
Carex trinervis Degl. Plate 2665 from Flora Danica, part 45 (1861) Galium palustre L. Plate 2764 from Flora Danica, part 47 (1869). Flora Danica is a comprehensive atlas of botany from the Age of Enlightenment, containing folio-sized pictures of all the wild plants native to Denmark, in the period from 1761 to 1883.