Berlengas Islands Nature Reserve Field Guide

The Berlengas Islands Nature Reserve includes a group of rocky islands near the western coast of Portugal and their surrounding waters. This guide aims to help the curious and the visitor alike enjoy this unique place, with its rarities and endemisms.

Berlengas Islands Nature Reserve Field Guide

Sea potato 1 Echinocardium cordatum

Purple sea urchin 2 Paracentrotus lividus

križnjača 3 Marthasterias glacialis

Lombriz herradura Phoronis hippocrepia

Sulphur Boring Sponge 5 Cliona celata

sea spleenwort 7 Asplenium marinum

hop trefoil 9 Trifolium campestre

clustered clover 10 Trifolium glomeratum

woolly clover 11 Trifolium tomentosum

Narrow-leaved Vetch 12 Vicia sativa nigra

Bur Clover 13 Medicago polymorpha

Orange Bird's-foot Ornithopus pinnatus

sweet clover 14 Melilotus indicus

Common Fig 15 Ficus carica

spreading pellitory 16 Parietaria judaica

Wall Pennywort Umbilicus rupestris

mossy stonecrop 17 Crassula tillaea

flaxleaf pimpernel Anagallis monelli

Nettle-leaved Goosefoot 11 Chenopodium murale

sea beet Beta vulgaris maritima

fat-hen 18 Atriplex prostrata

common chickweed 9 Stellaria media

sticky mouse-ear chickweed 9 Cerastium glomeratum

white campion Silene latifolia

Rock Sea-spurrey 19 Spergularia rupicola

Corn Spurrey 9 Spergula arvensis

Crystalline Ice Plant 20 Mesembryanthemum crystallinum

Hottentot-Fig Carpobrotus edulis

procumbent pigweed 18 Amaranthus blitoides

Horseweed 21 Erigeron canadensis

Slender Thistle 22 Carduus tenuiflorus

Australian waterbuttons 23 Cotula australis

brass buttons 24 Cotula coronopifolia

common sow thistle 12 Sonchus oleraceus

Capeweed 25 Arctotheca calendula

redstem filaree Erodium cicutarium bipinnatum

Dove's Foot Cranesbill 26 Geranium molle

Bermuda Buttercup 27 Oxalis pes-caprae

European heliotrope 28 Heliotropium europaeum

Mediterranean lineseed 11 Bellardia trixago

Olive 29 Olea europaea

minutina 18 Plantago coronopus

purple foxglove Digitalis purpurea purpurea

Sea potato ¹
Echinocardium cordatum

Purple sea urchin ²
Paracentrotus lividus

križnjača ³
Marthasterias glacialis

Lombriz herradura
Phoronis hippocrepia

Sulphur Boring Sponge ⁵
Cliona celata

sea spleenwort ⁷
Asplenium marinum

hop trefoil ⁹
Trifolium campestre

clustered clover ¹⁰
Trifolium glomeratum

woolly clover ¹¹
Trifolium tomentosum

Narrow-leaved Vetch ¹²
Vicia sativa nigra

Bur Clover ¹³
Medicago polymorpha

Orange Bird's-foot
Ornithopus pinnatus

sweet clover ¹⁴
Melilotus indicus

Common Fig ¹⁵
Ficus carica

spreading pellitory ¹⁶
Parietaria judaica

Wall Pennywort
Umbilicus rupestris

mossy stonecrop ¹⁷
Crassula tillaea

flaxleaf pimpernel
Anagallis monelli

Nettle-leaved Goosefoot ¹¹
Chenopodium murale

sea beet
Beta vulgaris maritima

fat-hen ¹⁸
Atriplex prostrata

common chickweed ⁹
Stellaria media

sticky mouse-ear chickweed ⁹
Cerastium glomeratum

white campion
Silene latifolia

Rock Sea-spurrey ¹⁹
Spergularia rupicola

Corn Spurrey ⁹
Spergula arvensis

Crystalline Ice Plant ²⁰
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum

Hottentot-Fig
Carpobrotus edulis

procumbent pigweed ¹⁸
Amaranthus blitoides

Horseweed ²¹
Erigeron canadensis

Slender Thistle ²²
Carduus tenuiflorus

Australian waterbuttons ²³
Cotula australis

brass buttons ²⁴
Cotula coronopifolia

common sow thistle ¹²
Sonchus oleraceus

Capeweed ²⁵
Arctotheca calendula

redstem filaree
Erodium cicutarium bipinnatum

Dove's Foot Cranesbill ²⁶
Geranium molle

Bermuda Buttercup ²⁷
Oxalis pes-caprae

European heliotrope ²⁸
Heliotropium europaeum

Mediterranean lineseed ¹¹
Bellardia trixago

Olive ²⁹
Olea europaea

minutina ¹⁸
Plantago coronopus

purple foxglove
Digitalis purpurea purpurea