Flora And Fauna

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Barren Strawberry (Potentilla sterilis)

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Smaller and less erect than true strawberry.. Welsh name means 'empty strawberry shrub'. Fruit is dry, not nice.

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Common ladys mantle

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Prolonged use is said to ease the discomfort of menopause. Rich in tannin, used to treat wounds

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Globeflower

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Member of buttercup family, hides on rock ledges.

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Dwarf willow

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Struggles to compete with other species, only found on bare, exposed, stony ground.

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Mossy saxifrage

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Forms a moss like mat, which acts as protection from drying winds found in higher areas

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Mountain sorrel

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Eating too much can bind the calcium in the body leading to a nutrient deficiency

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Purple saxifrage

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Adapted to survive under snow, they flower when snow melts

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Roseroot

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Used as a stimulant to combat stress, aids memory and good for the immune system

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Starry saxifrage

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Most common saxifrage around snowdonia

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Wall pennywort or navelwort

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Leaves can be eaten. A pultice of the leaves can be used to treat piles, burns or scalds

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Wood sorrel

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Woodland indicator. Leaves taste like apple. Eat sparingly, can lead to calcium binding.

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Bilberry

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Aka blaeberry, whortleberry. Good for varicose viens, haemorroids. Ripe in August

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Bluebell

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Woodland indicator. Welsh name cuckoo bells, as flower at same time cuckoo 1st heard in spring

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Common dog violet

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Bad luck to pick and take flowers homr, stops your hens laying

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Foxglove

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Poisonous, ingestion causes nausea, headache, skin irritation and diarrhoea

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Heathbed straw

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Bedstraws used to stuff matresses

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Heath speedwell

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Used to treat kidney complaints, haemorrhages and skin diseases

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Milkwort

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Believed to increase milk flow in nursing mothers

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Primrose

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Flowers are edible and can be used to make wine. Welsh 'bloom of the little calf'

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Tormentil

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Used to treat witches worts

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Wild thyme

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Essential oil in leavesused as antiseptic, deoderant and sedative. Perfume, soaps.

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Bog Asphodel or Lancashire/bastard asphodel

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Found in wet/boggy moorlands upto 1000m. Its bright orange fruits used as colourant to replace saffron by Shetland Islanders