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Milton Loch
Milton Loch is an alkaline freshwater loch located in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. In the loch and nearby are archaeological sites including three crannogs. Location Milton Loch is in the region of Dumfries and Galloway and more locally, the parish of Haugh of Urr, Urr. It is part of the Urr Basin. Close locations include Milton, Crocketford and Dumfries. Biology Milton Loch and its surroundings are popular birdwatching locations. They are home to many species of wildlife, including: Plant life *Alder *Bottle sedge, Bottle Sedge *Canadian Waterweed *Common Duckweed *Common nettle, Common Nettle *Common swallow-wart, Common Sallow *Ivy-leaved duckweed, Ivy-leaved Duckweed *Lesser pondweed, Lesser Pondweed *Marsh Horsetail *Marsh Marigold, Marsh-marigold *Meadow-sweet, Meadowsweet *Perfoliate Pondweed *Purple loosestrife, Purple-loosestrife *Reed Canary-grass *''Chara aspera'' *''Chara globularis'' *Shoreweed *Water horsetail, Water Horsetail *Water Mint Animal lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumfries And Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway (; ) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the Southern Uplands. It is bordered by East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire to the north; Scottish Borders to the north-east; the English county of Cumbria, the Solway Firth, and the Irish Sea to the south, and the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel to the west. The administrative centre and largest settlement is the town of Dumfries. The second largest town is Stranraer, located to the west of Dumfries on the North Channel coast. Dumfries and Galloway corresponds to the counties of Scotland, historic shires of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire, the last two of which are collectively known as Galloway. The three counties were combined in 1975 to form a single regions and districts of Scotland, region, with four districts within it. The districts were abolished in 1996, since when Dumfries and Galloway has been a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsh Marigold
''Caltha palustris'', known as marsh-marigold and kingcup, is a small to medium sized perennial herbaceous plant of the buttercup family, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It flowers between April and August, dependent on altitude and latitude, but occasional flowers may occur at other times. Description ''Caltha palustris'' is a high, hairless, fleshy, perennial, herbaceous plant that dies down in autumn and overwinters with buds near the surface of the marshy soil. The plants have many, thick strongly branching roots. Its flowering stems are hollow, erect or more or less decumbent. The alternate true leaves are in a rosette, each of which consist of a petiole that is about four times as long as the kidney-shaped leaf blade, which is between long and wide. The leaf possesses a heart-shaped foot, a blunt tip, and a scalloped to toothed, sometime almost entire margin particularly towards the tip. In their you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyrinus Marinus
''Gyrinus marinus'' is a species of beetle native to the Palearctic, including Europe. In Europe, it is only found in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, mainland Denmark, Estonia, Finland, mainland France, Germany, mainland Italy, Latvia, mainland Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p .... References * * Gyrinidae Beetles described in 1808 {{Gyrinidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donacia Vulgaris
''Donacia vulgaris'' is a species of leaf beetle The beetle family Chrysomelidae, commonly known as leaf beetles, includes over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making it one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families. Numerous s ... native to Europe.Warchalowski, A. (2003) ''Chrysomelidae. The Leaf-beetles of Europe and the Mediterranean Area''. Warsawa: Natura Optima Dux. References External linksImages representing ''Donacia''at BOLD Donaciinae Beetles described in 1788 Beetles of Europe {{Chrysomelidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blethisa Multipunctata
''Blethisa multipunctata'' is a species of ground beetle native to Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ....Carl H. Lindroth 1974 Coleoptera. Carabidae. ''Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects'' Vol 4 Part 2. Royal Entomological Society,Londopdf The habitat is stream, river and lake margins. It is amphibious, able to hunt below water for up to an hour. It is commonly known as the multidotted ground beetle. References multipunctata Beetles described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Beetles of Europe {{Carabidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agabus Bipustulatus
''Agabus bipustulatus'' is a species of beetle native to the Palearctic (including Europe), the Afro-tropical region, the Near East and North Africa. In Europe, it is found everywhere except in several small countries and islands: the Canary Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Madeira, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, the North Aegean Islands, Novaya Zemlya, San Marino, the Selvagens Islands, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (; ), is a Landlocked country, landlocked sovereign state and city-state; it is enclaved within Rome, the capital city of Italy and Bishop of Rome, seat of the Catholic Church. It became inde .... External links ''Agabus bipustulatus'' at Fauna Europaea bipustulatus Beetles described in 1767 Beetles of Europe Beetles of Africa Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Dytiscidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Mint
''Mentha aquatica'' (water mint; syn. ''Mentha hirsuta'' Huds.Euro+Med Plantbase Project''Mentha aquatica'') is a perennial flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It grows in moist places and is native to much of Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia.Flora of NW Europe''Mentha aquatica'' Description Water mint is a herbaceous rhizomatous perennial plant growing to tall. The stems are square in cross section, green or purple, and variably hairy to almost hairless. The rhizomes are wide-spreading, fleshy, and bear fibrous roots. The leaves are ovate to ovate-lanceolate, long and broad, green (sometimes purplish), opposite, toothed, and vary from hairy to nearly hairless. The flowers of the watermint are tiny, densely crowded, purple, tubular, pinkish to lilac in colour and form a terminal hemispherical inflorescence; flowering is from mid to late summer. Water mint is visited by many types of insects, and can be characterized by a generalized pollination syndrome, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Horsetail
''Equisetum fluviatile'', the water horsetail or swamp horsetail, is a vascular plant in the horsetail family Equisetaceae. It is a perennial herbaceous pteridophyte that reproduces using spores. Description The green stems grow 50–150 cm tall and 2–8 mm thick. The leaf sheaths are narrow, with 15-20 black-tipped teeth. Many, but not all, stems also have whorls of short ascending and spreading branches 1–5 cm long, with the longest branches on the lower middle of the stem. The side branches are slender, dark green, and have 1–8 nodes with a whorl of five scale leaves at each node. The water horsetail has one of the largest central hollows of the horsetails, with 80% of the stem diameter typically being hollow. The stems readily pull apart at the joints, and both fertile and sterile stems look alike. The water horsetail is most often confused with the marsh horsetail ''E. palustre'', which has rougher stems with fewer (4–8) stem ridges with a smaller hollow in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoreweed
''Littorella uniflora'' (vernacular name: (American) shoreweed) is a species of aquatic flowering plant native to the Azores, Morocco, most of Europe excluding the dry southeast, Iceland, and the Faroes. It prefers to live mostly submerged in nutrient-poor freshwater habitats. When submerged, it draws CO2 mostly through its roots and uses a mix of crassulacean acid metabolism Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, is a carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions that allows a plant to photosynthesize during the day, but only exchange gases at night. ... (CAM) and C3 carbon fixation for photosynthesis. If the water level drops and exposes the roots, it ceases using CAM. References Plantaginaceae Freshwater plants Plants described in 1864 {{Plantaginaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chara Globularis
''Chara globularis'' is a species of charophyte green algae The green algae (: green alga) are a group of chlorophyll-containing autotrophic eukaryotes consisting of the phylum Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister group that contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/ Streptophyta. The land plants ... in the family Characeae. Native to Europe, but widespread among the world, it inhabits fresh and brackish-water environments. The ''Chara globularis'' originally documented was identified as the short-end segment(SH) type, with a black fossa wall containing a granulate, papillate, or fine pusticular pattern. An elongate-end(EL) type was previously thought to belong to this same species, but upon re-examination was determined to be phylogenetically separate from the ''Chara globularis,'' indicating that it was a different species and, thus, being reclassified as the ''Chara leptospira''. References Charophyta Freshwater algae Plants described in 1799 {{Green a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chara Aspera
Chara may refer to: Places *Chara (river), a river in Russia *Chara (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia * Chara Airport, an airport in Russia near the rural locality * Chara Sands, a sanded area in Siberia, Russia Science * ''Chara'' (alga), a genus of algae in the family Characeae * ''Chara'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae *CHARA array, a telescope *Beta Canum Venaticorum or Chara, a star *Chara or Southern dogs, a constellation including Beta Canum Venaticorum and Cor Caroli People *Chara (given name) *Chara (singer), Japanese singer *Chara (surname) *Chara people, ethnic group in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia Other uses * ''Chara'' (magazine), a Japanese Yaoi/Shōjo magazine *Chara language, the language of the Chara people * USS ''Chara'' (AKA-58), a 1944 Achernar class attack cargo ship * Chara (''Undertale''), a video game character See also *Charabanc, a type of vehicle co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reed Canary-grass
''Phalaris arundinacea'', or reed canary grass, is a tall, perennial bunchgrass that commonly forms extensive single-species stands along the margins of lakes and streams and in wet open areas, with a wide distribution in Europe, Asia, northern Africa and North America. Other common names for the plant include gardener's-garters and ribbon grass in English, ''alpiste roseau'' in French, ''Rohrglanzgras'' in German, ''kusa-yoshi'' in Japanese, ''caniço-malhado'' in Portuguese, and ''hierba cinta'' and ''pasto cinto'' in Spanish.''Phalaris arundinacea''. USDA NRCS Plant Guide. Description The stems can reach in height. The blades are usually green, but may be |
