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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.
Bromus interruptus is an endemic to England, which was extinct in the wild but has been reintroduced from saved seed. [ 6 ] [ 11 ] The total number of endemic plant species has now grown to 52. Spiders
Anthriscus sylvestris, known as cow parsley, [2] wild chervil, [2] wild beaked parsley, Queen Anne's lace or keck, [2] [3] is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). [4] It is also sometimes called mother-die (especially in the UK), a name that is also applied to the common hawthorn. It is ...
Smyrnium olusatrum is a stout, glabrous (hairless) biennial growing to 150 cm (60 in) tall (exceptionally 180 cm), with a solid stem up to 22 millimetres (7 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter, which becomes hollow and grooved with age.
The flora of Scotland is an assemblage of native plant species including over 1,600 vascular plants, more than 1,500 lichens and nearly 1,000 bryophytes.The total number of vascular species is low by world standards but lichens and bryophytes are abundant and the latter form a population of global importance.
There are 57 recorded species of Odonata in Britain, made up of 21 damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) and 36 dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera). Of these, 42 species (17 damselflies and 25 dragonflies) are resident breeders, and the remainder are either extinct species, or vagrants - in respect of the latter, this list follows the decisions of the Odonata Records Committee.
Armadillidium vulgare Armadillidium vulgare in the rolled-up defensive posture characteristic of pill bugs Armadillidium pictum "Pill bugs" of the family Armadillidiidae are often confused with pill millipedes such as Glomeris marginata, which is also widespread and common in Britain and Ireland, but pill millipedes have two pairs of legs per body segment, while woodlice have only seven pairs ...
However, in recent times some of these large mammals have been tentatively reintroduced to some areas of Britain. The largest wild mammals that remain in Britain today are predominantly members of the deer family. The red deer is the largest native mammal species, and is common throughout England, Scotland and Wales.