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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.

Pteridium aquilinum aquilinum
sea spleenwort 1
Asplenium marinum
Isoetes histrix 2
Lotus hispidus
Astragalus pelecinus pelecinus
hop trefoil 3
Trifolium campestre
clustered clover 4
Trifolium glomeratum
Trifolium scabrum
Trifolium suffocatum
woolly clover 5
Trifolium tomentosum
Narrow-leaved Vetch 6
Vicia sativa nigra
Medicago littoralis
Bur Clover 7
Medicago polymorpha
Orange Bird's-foot
Ornithopus pinnatus
sweet clover 8
Melilotus indicus
Common Fig 9
Ficus carica
Urtica membranacea
spreading pellitory 10
Parietaria judaica
Wall Pennywort
Umbilicus rupestris
Sedum andegavense
mossy stonecrop 11
Crassula tillaea
flaxleaf pimpernel
Anagallis monelli
Rumex bucephalophorus gallicus
Nettle-leaved Goosefoot 5
Chenopodium murale
sea beet
Beta vulgaris maritima
Suaeda vera
fat-hen 12
Atriplex prostrata
common chickweed 3
Stellaria media
sticky mouse-ear chickweed 3
Cerastium glomeratum
white campion
Silene latifolia
Silene scabriflora
Silene uniflora uniflora
Sagina maritima
Rock Sea-spurrey 13
Spergularia rupicola
Corn Spurrey 3
Spergula arvensis
Polycarpon alsinifolium
Crystalline Ice Plant 14
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Hottentot-Fig
Carpobrotus edulis
procumbent pigweed 12
Amaranthus blitoides
Armeria berlengensis
Montia fontana amporitana
Gymnostyles stolonifera
Andryala integrifolia
Horseweed 15
Erigeron canadensis
Slender Thistle 16
Carduus tenuiflorus
Australian waterbuttons 17
Cotula australis
brass buttons 18
Cotula coronopifolia
Senecio gallicus
common sow thistle 6
Sonchus oleraceus
Sonchus tenerrimus
Capeweed 19
Arctotheca calendula
Carlina hispanica
Filago pygmaea pygmaea
Calendula suffruticosa algarbiensis
Leontodon taraxacoides taraxacoides
Helichrysum stoechas stoechas
Pulicaria microcephala
redstem filaree
Erodium cicutarium bipinnatum
Dove's Foot Cranesbill 20
Geranium molle
Bermuda Buttercup 21
Oxalis pes-caprae
European heliotrope 22
Heliotropium europaeum
Echium rosulatum
Scrophularia sublyrata
Orobanche calendulae
Mediterranean lineseed 5
Bellardia trixago
Olive 23
Olea europaea
Stachys arvensis
minutina 12
Plantago coronopus
Linaria spartea 24
Linaria amethystea multipunctata
purple foxglove
Digitalis purpurea purpurea
Papaver somniferum setigerum
Fumaria muralis
Rough-fruited Buttercup 8
Ranunculus muricatus
Beleño 25
Hyoscyamus albus
Jimson Weed 26
Datura stramonium
Black nightshade 27
Solanum nigrum
Tree Tobacco 28
Nicotiana glauca
Dodder
Cuscuta epithymum
Angelica pachycarpa
knotted hedgeparsley
Torilis nodosa
rock samphire 29
Crithmum maritimum
Tree Mallow 30
Malva arborea
Cretan mallow 31
Malva pseudolavatera
Euphorbia portlandica
Euphorbia characias characias
Castor Oil Plant 32
Ricinus communis
Annual Mercury 33
Mercurialis annua
Frankenia laevis
Trailing St John's-wort 34
Hypericum humifusum
Lesser swine-cress 35
Lepidium didymum
Cabbage 3
Brassica oleracea
Danish Scurvy-grass 3
Cochlearia danica
Lobularia maritima maritima
Catapodium marinum
silver hairgrass
Aira caryophyllea
soft brome 36
Bromus hordeaceus
Bromus rigidus 36
Lolium rigidum rigidum
Poa infirma

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