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Its flowers are usually of a dull, leaden-blue colour, or dull buff-yellow tinged with blue. The petals have delicate veining. It blooms between June and July, but the flowers only last a day or so. [3] The green seed capsules, which remain attached to the plant throughout the winter, are 5–8 cm (2–3 in) long; and the seeds are scarlet.
The island of Ireland, with border between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland indicated.. Symbols of Ireland are marks, images, or objects that represent Ireland. Because Ireland was not partitioned until 1922, many of the symbols of Ireland predate the division into Southern Ireland (later Irish Free State and then Ireland) and Northern Ireland.
Cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus: a relict plant of the Ice Age. Ice-sheets covered most of Ireland until 13,000 years ago when the Holocene began. The majority of Ireland's flora and fauna has only returned as the ice sheets retreated and sea level rose accompanied by post-glacial rebound when 10,000 years ago the climate began to warm.
Iris versicolor or Iris versicolour is also commonly known as the blue flag, harlequin blueflag, larger blue flag, northern blue flag, [2] and poison flag, plus other variations of these names, [3] [4] and in Great Britain and Ireland as purple iris. [5] It is a species of Iris native to North America, in the Eastern United States and Eastern ...
The pea shaped flowers are arranged in short clusters among the leaf axils. [5] The axillary inflorescences contain one to seven flowers. The seed pods that form later are ovoid to ellipsoid in shape and are 0.8 to 1.2 cm (0.31 to 0.47 in) in length and 0.8 to 1.3 cm (0.31 to 0.51 in) wide. The olive brown seeds within have an elliptic shape ...
Sisyrinchium bermudiana, known as Bermudiana [citation needed] or, along with other members of the genus, as blue-eyed grass, [2] is a flower of the genus Sisyrinchium (of the iris family) that is native to the Atlantic archipelago, and British Overseas Territory, of Bermuda and the island of Ireland. The plant appears and blooms in the spring.
Arbutus is a genus of 12 accepted species [2] of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, [3] native to temperate regions of the Mediterranean, western Europe, the Canary Islands and North America, and commonly called madrones [4] or strawberry trees. The name Arbutus was taken by taxonomists from Latin, where it referred to the species now ...
Botanical print of Houlletia brocklehurstiana. This is a list of botanical illustrators born or active in Ireland. Botanical illustration involves the painting, drawing and illustration of plants and ecosystems. Often meticulously observed, the botanical art tradition combines both science and art, and botanical artists throughout the centuries ...