One is bog asphodel, a beautiful wildflower in the lily family, with bright yellow flowers. It occurs only in a scarce, specialized habitat: open, boggy fens along slow-flowing creeks or rivers.

New Jersey holds the world’s only known existences of Hammond’s yellow spring beauty, Knieskern’s beaked-rush, bog asphodel and the New Jersey dewberry, otherwise known as the Tuckahoe dewberry.

“Not only do they support a fantastic array of plants and animals, including sphagnum moss, bog asphodel, sundews, dragonflies and wading birds, but they also lock away carbon in the peat.

Its violet-colored flowers bloom in early September. Bog Asphodel: This rare perennial can only be found in the Pine Barrens in wetlands areas. It flowers from mid-June to late July.

They are an important habitat for sphagnum moss, bog asphodel and carnivorous sundew plants, as well as dragonflies and wading birds, and lock away carbon in the peat, helping tackle climate change.

What is bog asphodel? Found on acidic damp habitats – wet heaths, wet and boggy moorlands up to about 1,000m in elevation - it produces distinctive tall yellow flower spikes in summer.

Project officer Helen Earnshaw said: "It is exciting to see bog asphodel, white beak sedge, greater sundew and oblong-leaved sundew back on Winmarleigh Moss, as they have been absent for 100 years.

In the middle of the Brunssummerheide heathland reserve is a unique sloping peatland site with a great diversity of flora and fauna, such as the rare Bog Asphodel and the protected Northern ...

Helen Earnshaw, Lancashire Wildlife Trust Peatlands Programme Project Officer, said: “It is exciting to see bog asphodel, white beak sedge, greater sundew and oblong-leaved sundew back on ...

These are the old flower stalks of the bog asphodel, which produces yellow flowers from June to August. Its Latin name (Narthecium ossifragum) recalls the belief that eating the plant gave cattle ...

Project officer Helen Earnshaw said: "It is exciting to see bog asphodel, white beak sedge, greater sundew and oblong-leaved sundew back on Winmarleigh Moss, as they have been absent for 100 years.