bog asphodel
Lancashire asphodel
bastard asphodel
narthecium ossifragum latin

Bog Asphodel gives displays of yellow flowers there in early July.

Uncommon Bog Asphodel is present and is recorded as an increasing population.

Narthecium californicum is a species of flowering plant known by the common name California bog asphodel.

The Suffolk breed is also more resistant to elf fire, a disease brought on by eating, among others, the bog asphodel.

Boggy areas support cotton grass, marsh orchid, sundew and bog asphodel.

Rare species located here include Bog Asphodel and all three types of Sundew.

We found Tumbleweed guarding the bog asphodel and writing up his records surrounded by various specimens of damp foliage.

So does bog asphodel.

Species in the family are distributed in northern Europe, where they grow biotrophically in leaves of the bog asphodel.

Narthecium americanum, the bog asphodel.

Stretches of white silky-plumed bog cotton-grass and orange-yellow bog asphodel warned me to be wary.

Bog asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum)

Species present include; bog mosses, common cotton grass, star sedge, round-leaved sundew, cranberry and bog asphodel.

Lily family (Melanthiaceae) - False Bog Asphodel (Tofieldia pusilla)

Carnivorous plants such as sundews and butterworts are specific to boglands and bog asphodel and bog cotton are also common.

Among the wild flowers are woodland species such as bluebells and species associated with peat bogs such as sundews, bog asphodel and bog-rosemary.

The incursion of trees has caused the heath to become drier, resulting in the loss of some wet heath plants, including bog asphodel and round-leaved sundew.

Other common plants include lousewort, bog cotton, milkwort, bog asphodel, orchids and bog myrtle, with a variety of lichens and mosses.

Notable plants are Bog Asphodel, Common Cotton-grass, Few-flowered Spike-rush and Tawny Sedge.

This heathland habitat is home to all six species of native reptile, the Dartford Warbler and some important flora such as Sundew and Bog Asphodel.

Early flowering plants such as marsh marigolds, spring squill and thrift are but a memory as the rich smell of cloves wafts across the fields from the stands of bog asphodel.

Other species of note associated with the wet flushes include Bog Asphodel Narthecium ossifragum, the cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium and Pale Butterwort Pinguicula lusitanica.

Uncommon plant species include Black bogrush, Marsh Fern, Cranberry, Bog Asphodel, Common Cotton-grass, all three species of Sundew and Sphagnum Moss.

Additional species, also well represented within the bog include Bog Asphodel Narthecium ossifragum and White Beak-sedge Rhynchospora alba, with occasional patches of Bog-myrtle Myrica gale also occurring.

The very plants were unknown to them - pink lousewort with its sprays of hooked flowers, bog asphodel and the thin-stemmed blooms of the sun-dews, rising above their hairy, fly-catching mouths, all shut fast by night.

Narthecium ossifragum, commonly known as bog-, Lancashire- or bastard asphodel, is a plant of Western Europe, found on wet, boggy moorlands up to about 1000 m in elevation.

But it is vulnerable to eye disease caused by eating the plant Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum).

Narthecium ossifragum and Myrica gale are suitable for companion planting with E. angustifolium.

Bog asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum)

Narthecium ossifragum (as A. ossifragum )

The global distribution of the genus is widely disjunct - 1 species in Asia, 1-5 species in Europe (see Narthecium ossifragum and 2 species in North America.

There are hollows colonised by Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) and moss Campylopus atrovirens and the bog moss Sphagnum contortum also occurs.

Other species of note associated with the wet flushes include Bog Asphodel Narthecium ossifragum, the cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium and Pale Butterwort Pinguicula lusitanica.

Additional species, also well represented within the bog include Bog Asphodel Narthecium ossifragum and White Beak-sedge Rhynchospora alba, with occasional patches of Bog-myrtle Myrica gale also occurring.

The wetter parts of the valley mire are characterised by an abundance of bog mosses, Sphagnum spp, in association with species such as common cottongrass, Eriophorum angustifolium, star sedge, Carex echinata, and bog asphodel, Narthecium ossifragum.