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The flora of Great Britain and Ireland is one of the best documented in the world. There are 1390 native species and over 1100 well-established non-natives documented on the islands. A bibliographic database of the species has been compiled by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. [1] The lists (spread across multiple pages due to size ...
In 2002 Plantlife conducted a "County Flowers" public survey to assign flowers to each of the counties of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. [1] The results of this campaign designated a single plant species to a "county or metropolitan area" in the UK and Isle of Man. [2] Some English counties already had flowers traditionally associated with them before 2002, [3] and which were ...
Vascular plants. Primula scotica, endemic to the north of Scotland and Orkney. In 1999, 47 species of flowering plants (430 including microspecies [4]) were considered to be endemic to the British Isles, 32 of them in the "critical genera" Euphrasia, Limonium and Sorbus. [5] Further additions are made from time to time, as cited below.
Oleg Vladimirovitch Polunin (November 1914 – July 1985) was an English botanist, teacher and traveller. He was one of three sons to the artists Vladimir (born in the Russian Empire) and Elizabeth Polunin. All three sons were interested in the natural sciences: Nicholas Polunin (1909–1997) was an arctic explorer and environmentalist, and ...
Flora Londinensis is a folio sized book that described the flora found in the London region of the mid 18th century. The Flora was published by William Curtis in six large volumes. The descriptions of the plants included hand-coloured copperplate plates by botanical artists such as James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards and William Kilburn.
British wildwood, or simply the wildwood, is the natural forested landscape that developed across much of Prehistoric Britain after the last ice age. It existed for several millennia as the main climax vegetation in Britain given the relatively warm and moist post-glacial climate and had not yet been destroyed or modified by human intervention.
The Flora of the United Kingdom. The UK's European territory is part of the Flora of Northern Europe, and includes the Flora of Great Britain and the Northern Ireland section of the Flora of Ireland, the sub-categories which should normally be used in preference. Categorization by plant distribution is based on the World Geographical Scheme for ...
Alma mater. London School of Economics. Occupations. Naturalist. Author. Richard Sidney Richmond Fitter (1 March 1913 – 3 September 2005) was a British naturalist and author. He was an expert on wildflowers and authored several guides for amateur naturalists.