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Great fen sedge Cladium mariscum plant, fruit, flowers, rhizome and roots, and details of the spikelet, stem, fruit and detail of the folded leaf

Greater bladderwort Utricularia vulgaris pencil drawing showing flower above the water and the network of veins underwater with the bladder traps to catch aquatic microorganisms

Greater tussock sedge Carex paniculata individual platn and large tussock of the plant along with ligule, stem cross section and glume detail. In flower

Greater wood rush Luzula sylvatica in full flower with individual detail on one seed. Hairs shown clearly on leaves

Hairy wood rush Luzula pilosa showing leaf tips and hairs as well as roots and individual fruit

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

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

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

Branched bur reed Sparganium erectum pencil illustation showing fruits

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

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

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

Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea

Teal Anas crecca showing elaborate beautiful plumage

Sanderling Calidris alba standing in a rockpool with seaweed covered stones on a beach with lots of other wading birds behind and distant sea view of a rocky coast

Sanderling Calidris alba

Greater flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus standing on one leg cut to white