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Image details: |
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Image Description: |
Three Shetland Mouse-ear flowers between the stones |
Image notes: |
Muckle Heog flowers differ slighty from those on the Keen of Hamar |
Species in Image: |
Shetland Mouse-ear |
Date: |
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Area: |
Unst |
Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc03092 |
General details: |
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Common Name |
Shetland Mouse-ear |
Latin Name |
Cerastium nigrescens |
Family Name |
Caryophyllaceae |
Description |
Subspecies Nigrescens. Native, endemic to Unst. Grows on serpentine debris on the Keen of Hamar, Unst. Flowers Late May- Early August. |
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