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Sphagnum moss
Sphagnum moss
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• Found in woodland areas.
• Can be eaten, tastes quite citrusy, great
addition to salads and sandwichs.
Star moss
Wood Sorrel
• Very Common
• Found in large clumps in damp areas.
• Used as decoration all over the world,
Maoris use it for cloaks.
• Can be used for brooms and brushes.
• Some people believe when dissolved in
tea it dissolves kidney stones.
Star moss
Wood sorrel
• Grows in acidic conditions,
• Holds twenty times it dry weight in
water.
• Good indicator of blanket bog with little
drainage.
• Changes pH of the soil.
• Can preserve human bodies extremely
well for long periods.
• Can be used as a wound dressing, as its
absorbent and stops the growth of
bacteria
Map Lichen
Reindeer Moss
Reindeer Moss
• Used as a monitor of good air quality.
• A symbiotic organism of fungus and
algae
• Common on heaths and peat moors.
• Is actually a lichen.
• The hero's of telemark survived by
boiling it in water, whilst on a mission to
destroy a Nazi heavy water plant.
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Small yellow flower with four petals.
In bloom between April until October
Member of the rose family.
When made into a tea can cure a variety
of ailments including IBS, diarrhoea, and
cholera.
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Map Lichen
Tormentil
• Grows on sunny acidic rocks.
• Can be used to measure the age of the
exposed rock, a clue to the history of a
receding glacier.
• Fruiting bodies are small black discs
• Used as a monitor of good air quality.
• A symbiotic organism of fungus and
algae
Tormentil
Silver Birch
Sundew
Sundew
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Uncommon, but not rare.
Found in or near bogs/sodden ground
Eats small insects such as midge
Leaves have sticky globules on the
end
• Blooms a little white flower between
June and August.
• The leaf juice is supposed to cure
corns, warts, and bunions.
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Uncommon, but not rare.
Eats small insects such as midge.
A Perennial.
Grows in nitrogen deficient bogs
It was once used to curdle milk.
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Silver Birch
Butterwort
• Recognised by fragile silvery bark.
• The bark can be used as kindling when
making a fire.
• Good early coloniser where soil is thin,
such as scree slopes.
Butterwort
Oak
Bilberry
Oak
• Its been a predominant timber tree since
prehistoric times.
• Broadleaf
• Deciduous
• Its seed is an acorn
• Its leaf is the symbol for the national
trust.
• Tiny pink.purple flowers
• A tasty snack for SHEEP.
• Mead used to be made from the
flowering stems.
• Brooms can be made from tying several
strands together.
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Bilberry
Ling – Common heather
• Towards the end of August the flowers
are replaced by tasty edible berries.
• The berries are supposed to be good for
varicose veins, and capillary fragility.
Ling-Common heather
centipede
Garden Spider
Garden Spider
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The most familiar of spiders in the UK.
Very common
The larger spiders are the females
The smaller males are sometimes eaten by
the females.
• White dots on the abdomen.
• Eight legs
• Is not an insect but a crustacean
• Curls into a ball to protect itself from
danger.
• Its outer shell is an exoskeleton
• They breathe through gills
• They eat rotting plants, fungi, and their
own faeces
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Centipede
Woodlouse
• Venomous fangs
• Carnivorous
• Found in moist habitats
• One of the most dominant predators in
the insect kingdom.
• Found in fossils over 400 million years old
Woodlouse
Raven
Ground Beetle
Ground Beetle
• Found in woodland habitats
• Can grow upto 2 cm long
• It feeds on snails by plunging its narrow
front end into their shells to eat the flesh.
• Common bird
• Its tail bobs up and down, hence wagtail
• Less than 20 cm tall
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Raven
Pied Wagtail
• large black bird over 60cm tall from the tip
of its tail.
• Very intelligent.
• They only have one mate for life, even if
that mate dies, they don’t find a new
mate.
• The can fly upside down.
• Live on carrion
Pied Wagtail
Frog
Wren
Wren
• Britain's most common breeding bird.
• Can often be heard singing with a loud
prolonged call.
• Never bigger than 12cm long
• Nests in dense vegetation with a domed
nest.
• Very sociable, but will squabble with each
other and other birds.
• Very common
• Eats seeds and insects
• Lay 3 to 8 eggs.
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Frog
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Finch
Amphibians
Produce upto 4000 eggs in one spawn
Only 2000 tadpoles may survive
An adult frog can breathe through its skin
as well as its nostrils
Finch
Fungi-common jelly spot
Foxglove
Foxglove
• Famous for being poisonous
• The leaves appear as a rosette long
before the plant flowers.
• Instantly recognisable, very common,
also known as in Wales as Dog’s Finger
or Mary’s Thimble.
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Originally just a woodland plant
Very common.
Spreads by underground rhizomes
Can harbour sheep ticks
Bracken leaves can be a carcinogenic
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The most commonly occurring fungus
Found on rotting wood.
Small never more than 5mm
Flesh is soft yet firm.
As with all fungi unless your with an
expert don’t touch.
Fern-Bracken
Fungi-common jelly spot
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Fern- Bracken
Chestnut
Beech
Beech
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Widespred and common on british isles
Decidious tree
Smooth grey bark
Has fruit in a prickly husk- the nuts can
be collected, peeled, roasted and eaten.
• used to make furniture, sporting
equipment.
• Good for burning
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Abundantly common
A Prickly shrub
Grows a recognisable fruit
The blackberries themselves are full of
antioxidents and vitamin C
• Traditionally used to treat mild
inflammation
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Chestnut
Blackberry-Brambles
• Soft wood, can be used in furniture
making.
• Deciduous tree
• Bear fruit, the nuts can be peeled roasted
and eaten, make sure the fruit/nut is slit or
it will explode.
• The fruit/nut can be used in conkers
games.
Blackberry-Brambles
Pine
Stinging Nettle
Pine
• Grow from seeds which come from a
cone (the only tree to do so)
• A Coniferious tree
• They can grow in any soil and anywhere
in the world.
• Of the seven continents, pine trees are
found to be growing in six continents.
• Fully grown trees require full sun and
very little water to survive.
• Used in furniture making.
Stinging Nettle
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• widespread and common
• Both the flowers and berries can be
prepared and eaten to make food and drink
such as jams and wine.
• some people feel that elderberries have
medicinal value and use them for a variety of
respiratory and gastric ailments
• The berries are full of vitamin A, B and C
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Elder
Very common
The plants are packed with
magnesium, iron and calcium - all
essential minerals
Can be prepared to make soup, beer,
wine and tea.
The stem contains a fibre used for rope
making, sails and textiles.
Elder
Aphid
Butterfly
Butterfly
Butterfly
•Most butterflies feed on nectar from
flowers.
•Butterflies have taste receptors on their
feet.
•A butterfly’s lifecycle is made up of four
parts, egg, larva (caterpillars), pupa
(chrysalis) and adult.
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They eat Aphids
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Aphid
They should be classified as a beetle
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Very small green or black insects with a
soft body
They only live for about a year.
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Have two small ‘tailpipes’ called
cornicles
They can be many colours, pink,
yellow, orange and red.
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They feed on plants in clusters or small
groups
Lady bird
Lady bird
Glow worm
Earthworm
Earthworm
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Earthworms' bodies are made up of
ring-like segments called annuli.
The segments are covered in small
bristles, which the worm uses to
move and burrow.
The worm's first segment contains its
mouth. As they burrow, they eat soil,
extracting nutrients from
decomposing organic matter like
leaves and roots
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It Is an invertebrate
they are famous for having a green
and yellow coloured light on the
end of it's tail.
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Grasshoppers can jump very high.
Some grasshoppers will jump 200
times their length in one jump
Grasshoppers have ears on their
bellies.
Grasshoppers make music by rubbing
the back leg and fore wing together
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An omnivore – eats both plants and
meats, mainly snails and slugs
Grasshopper
Glow worm
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silkworm
Bee
Bee
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Collect nectar to make honey
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A single bee can collect enough nectar
to make 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey.
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Plants rely on bees to pollenate them
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They live in hives or colonies where
each bee has its own job to ensure the
survival of the hive.
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Snails are vegetarians, they will eat all
sorts of fruits and vegetables
(especially the rotten kind)
They have no ears, very limited eye
sight but they have a great sense of
smell, that's how they find their food.
snails are hermaphrodites which
means that they have both female and
male organs
silkworm
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Snail
They make silk thread
Silkworms eat mulberry leaves
One silkworm cocoon is made of a
single, unbroken thread about 914
meters long.
It takes at least 2 days for a
silkworm to complete its cocoon.
Snail
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