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This category includes the endemic and native plants of Spain. According to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions , this excludes the Balearic Islands , Canary Islands , and the Spanish North African Territories, but includes Andorra and Gibraltar .
Topographic map of Spain. The wildlife of Spain includes the diverse flora and fauna of Spain.The country located at the south of France has two long coastlines, one on the north on the Cantabrian Sea, another on the East and South East on the Mediterranean Sea, and a smaller one on the west and south west on the Atlantic Ocean, its territory includes a big part of the Iberian Peninsula, the ...
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Flora Iberica: Plantas vasculares de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares ("Vascular plants of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands") is a Spanish book series containing identification keys, descriptions, and illustrations of pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and angiosperms of Spain and Portugal (excluding Atlantic islands). [1]
The flora of Cantabria is the result of three determining factors: the climate, the composition of the soil, directly dependent on the types of existing rocks, and the evolutionary history of the different plant formations. From the point of view of its flora, Cantabria is located between two biogeographic realms.
The woodlands of the Iberian Peninsula are distinct ecosystems on the Iberian Peninsula (which includes Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Gibraltar and Southern France). Although the various regions are each characterized by distinct vegetation, the borders between these regions are not clearly defined, and there are some similarities across the peninsula.
Traditional agrosilvopastoral landscapes, known as dehesa in Spain and montado in Portugal, are found in the western portion of the ecoregion, and extending into the adjacent Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests ecoregion.
Aquilegia aragonensis is endemic to the Pyrenees, in a few locations in the Province of Huesca in Aragon, northeastern Spain. [1] [4] It grows in the subalpine zone [2] at altitudes between 1,400 to 1,900 m (4,600 to 6,200 ft). [4]