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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.