A Guide to Britain's Rarest Plants ( 1 )

Publication series :1

Author: Dixon   Christopher  

Publisher: Pelagic Publishing‎

Publication year: 2017

E-ISBN: 9781784271497

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781784271466

Subject: Q1 General Biology;Q14 Biological Ecology (Ecology);Q19 biological systematics;Q94 Botany

Keyword: 生物分类学,生态学(生物生态学),普通生物学,植物学

Language: ENG

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Description

This guide describes 66 native species of plants that have the most narrowly restricted ranges in Great Britain. Each species is shown together with its habitat, to allow the reader to better understand the ecological context, and other scarce plants in the same area are indicated.

Chapter

Creeping marshwort

Alpine rock-cress

Bristol rock-cress

Norwegian mugwort

Pedunculate sea-purslane

Small hare’s-ear

Club sedge

Starved wood-sedge

Large yellow sedge

Bristle sedge

Perennial centaury

Slender centaury

Red helleborine

Wood calamint

Lundy cabbage

Strapwort

Pigmyweed

Leafless hawk’s-beard

Lady’s-slipper orchid

Starfruit

Cheddar pink

Diapensia

Yellow whitlow-grass

Ghost orchid

Irish spurge

Radnor lily

Snowdon lily

Alpine gentian

Fringed gentian

Fringed rupturewort

Esthwaite waterweed

Land quillwort

Pygmy rush

Least lettuce

Teesdale sandwort

Holly-leaved naiad

Least adder’s-tongue

Military orchid

Monkey orchid

Bedstraw broomrape

Oxtongue broomrape

Yellow oxytropis

Childing pink

Blue heath

American pondweed

Suffolk lungwort

Adder’s-tongue spearwort

Sand crocus

Scottish dock

Drooping saxifrage

Triangular club-rush

Brown bog-rush

Round-headed club-rush

Perennial knawel

Viper’s-grass

Cambridge milk-parsley

Fen ragwort

Moon carrot

Alpine catchfly

Downy woundwort

Water germander

Twin-headed clover

Upright clover

Spring speedwell

Dwarf pansy

Fen violet

Critical groups

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Index

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