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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 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.
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.
Norway; Svalbard; Sweden; This is smaller than some geographical definitions of Northern Europe, which often include Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, placed in Eastern Europe in the WGSRPD. Native taxa of the lowest rank are included if they occur widely in the region, otherwise they are placed in the flora of one or more of the constituent areas.
However, a branch of the Gulf Stream sweeping up the coast of North Norway provides a moderating influence, and the climate of Tromsø is one of relatively mild winters (January average −4.4 °C (24.1 °F)) and cool summers (July average 11.7 °C (53.1 °F)). [2] The season in the Botanic Garden is usually from end of May until mid October. [2]
Drosera rotundifolia, the round-leaved sundew, [4] roundleaf sundew, or common sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes and fens.One of the most widespread sundew species, it has a circumboreal distribution, being found in all of northern Europe, much of Siberia, large parts of northern North America, Korea and Japan but is also found as far south as ...
Growing to 10 cm (4 in) high and wide, it is a semi-evergreen perennial with hairy, divided leaves. In early spring it bears anemone-like flowers which are up to 6 cm (2 in) in diameter, white flushed with violet on the outer surface of the petals, and prominent yellow stamens. [2] The specific epithet vernalis means "of spring". [3]