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Giant Fescue Festuca gigantea with spikelet, lemma and amplexicaul ligule

Glaucous sedge Carex flacca with rhizome growth and details of three stigmas, ligule, fruit and glume

Few flowered Spike rush Eleocharis quinqueflora with stem and individual flower detail; root information included

Dioecious sedge Carex dioica with stem cross section, fruit, two stigmas, female glume, male glume, ligule and individual leaf along with rhizome information

Crab Apple Malus sylvestris with small fruits, woody stem, leaves, and blossoms

Cross leaved heather Erica tetralix with close up of flower, distinctive stame, and individual leaf with red gland at the base

Crowberry Empetrum nigrum in fruit with individual leaf, flower, and leaf cross section which shows the inrolled leaf margin

Deergrass Scirpus cespitosus flowering clump with individual leaflet and stem cross section, glume, and spikelet detail

Common comfrey Symphytum officinale plant with details of pink and blue flowers

Common Cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium showing red leaf tip and stem cross section as well as entire plant

Common sedge carex nigra showing root, glume, fruit, ligule detail, stem cross section, and two stigmas

Carnation sedge carex panicea whole plant with details on murcinate leaf apex, glume, fruit, ligule, cross section, three stigma fruit and stem cross section

Blunt flowered rush Juncus subnodulosus showing lateral growth along a rhizome, rooting nodes, stem cross section showing hollows in the pith, and individual fruit detail

Bottle sedge Carex rostrata showing flowers, fruits, ligule, seeds, and glumes as well as the pinkish basal area

Broad leaved Cottongrass Eriophorum latifollium with individual seed, murcinate leaf tip, stem cross section, and flowering spike

Brown sedge Carex disticha with stem cross section and individual fruit detail

Black bog rush Schoenus nigricans showing individual flowering spike, stem cross section, and basal colour

Distant landscape of hills and fiels with a tree in the midground, in the foreground butterflies such as the ringlet and meadow brown rest on orchids and buttercups