Hill farmers are being reminded to be alert to the plant bog asphodel, which grows in wetland areas and can prove deadly to lambs. The NFU is worried the plant – which produces bright spikes of ...

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.

Areas of boggy moorland are proving to be ideal breeding grounds for bog asphodel, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) said, and the plant is being blamed on the deaths of 48 lambs in just three ...

He said the site supported key species, including bog asphodel, sphagnum mosses, grasshopper warbler, short-eared owl and jack snipe, but required “next to no management”. “In time ...

The bog-dwelling western false asphodel, Triantha occidentalis, was first described in the scientific literature in 1879. But until now, no one realized this sweet-looking plant used its sticky ...

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 ...

“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.

Western false asphodel has pretty white flowers and hairs on its stalk that can trap and digest insects. If you hike through a mountain bog along the West Coast of North America in midsummer ...

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.

"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.

Plants including the greater sundew and bog asphodel are now thriving there. Project officer Helen Earnshaw said: "It is exciting to see bog asphodel, white beak sedge, greater sundew and oblong ...

In the Middle Ages the Border Mires were a refuge for bandits called Moss Troopers and they remain a key habitat for sphagnum moss, bog asphodel, dragonflies and wading birds. Their importance was ...