ecosystems

Water soldier Stratiotes aloides showing emergent leaves

Reindeer lichen Cladonia rangiformis showing spots of algae growing on the grey branches

Early Marsh Orchid Dactylorhiza incarnata ssp coccinea showing distinctive red flowers and stocky low habit

Portland spurge Euphorbia portlandica with flower fruit seed and leaf underside

Orchid diagram with hand written labels. line drawing with colour wash

Close up of one flower showing reflexed sides of labellum and red colour

Lesser Hawkbit Leontodon saxatilis with details of pappas types on two different achenes

With stem detail showing swollen red bases of stem hairs

With spikelet detail, showing how the upper leaf looks like a continuation of the stem

Dry specimen showing how incurled the moss becomes when not wet

Sand hill screwmoss Wet specimen showing green starry tips against bronze background

Sharp rush Juncus acutus with nutlet and inflorescence

Western eyebright Euphrasia tetraquetra with leaf & flower detail

Syntrichia ruraliformis ruraliformis fascicle and leaf with hyaline tip

Bog pimpernel Anagallis tenella showing sprawling habit

Showing seed, pale pink flowers, woolly blue leaves and a seed

Showing yellow and cream colouration and sprawling, tufted habit  

Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus with log-pile, bracket and other fungi, nettles, and a small tortoiseshell butterfly.

Beavers Castor canadensis with beaver dam.  Illustration based in Tierra del Fuego, where introduced beavers have damaged the closed ecosystem. Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli