Flax was @SpeciesofUK from 19th to 26th
May, 2014.
Flax is a
food and fibre crop cultivated throughout the cooler regions of the world. It
is known for its very distinctive blue flowers.[1]
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Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Saturday, 7 June 2014
Week 52: Deadnettle ('Lamium')
Deadnettles were @SpeciesofUK from 24th
February to 2nd March, 2014.
Deadnettles
are forty to fifty species of herbaceous plants that make up the genus Lamium.[1]
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| Red Deadnettle, Lamium purpureum [Flickr Creative Commons © Gertrud K] |
The UK
has a number of deadnettle species growing wild.
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Week 15: Grey Squirrel (Scuridae Carolinensis)
The
grey squirrel was @SpeciesofUK from 10th to 16th March
2013.
Grey squirrels (or Eastern Grey Squirrels to give them
their full name) are part of the family Scuridae
which contains circa 285 squirrel species in total. The only other Scuridae species found in the UK is the
red squirrel.
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| Grey Squirrel [Source: Flickr Creative Commons © Dean Thorpe] |
Grey squirrels are not UK natives. They were introduced
to the UK from the USA in the late 1800s. They’ve been rampantly successful, out-competing
native red squirrels and driving them into ever smaller outposts.
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