
Owing to this partnership, lichens can thrive in harsh environments such as mountaintops and polar regions. These live protected among the dense fungal hyphae and produce carbohydrates for the fungus by photosynthesis. The fungal component of a lichen absorbs water and nutrients from the surroundings and provides a suitable environment for the alga or cyanobacterium. The mutualistic symbiotic association of a fungus with an alga or a cyanobacterium, or both. In contrast to the vascular plants, the gametophyte (haploid) generation of bryophytes constitutes the larger plant form, while the small sporophyte (diploid) generation grows on or within the gametophyte and depends upon it for nutrition. Bryophytes generally live on land but are mostly found in moist environments, for they have free-swimming sperm that require water for transport. Bryophytes lack the specialized tissues xylem and phloem that circulate water and dissolved nutrients in the vascular plants. Also called tracheophyte.Ī large group of seedless green plants including the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. The vascular plants include all seed-bearing plants (the gymnosperms and angiosperms) and the pteridophytes (including the ferns, lycophytes, and horsetails). Species which are likely to become threatened in the near future throughout all or a significant portion of their range within the state if causal factors continue unchecked.Īny of various plants that have the vascular tissues xylem and phloem.
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Department of the Interior, as enumerated in the Code of Federal Regulations 50 CFR 17.11. restricted to not less than 4 or more than 7 U.S.G.S.


There are many comfrey species, some of which have creamy-white flowers (see the example below) identifying them to species level is a task for experts!. The flowers appear in May and June, often making lovely displays with Bluebells and other early spring flowers.Īt one time, comfrey leaves were used as dressings for cuts, bruises and broken bones, although in the latter case it was the roots of the plant that were combined with other substances and used as a kind of latter-day plaster of Paris. These perennial plants love riverbanks and damp hedgerows. The very dark purple ones are commonly referred to as Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum. Phylum: Magnoliophyta - Class: Equisetopsida - Order: Lamiales - Family: BoraginaceaeĬomfreys (of which there are several growing in the UK and Ireland) are a confusing group of plants because they readily hybridise with each other producing flowers varying from white, through pale pink and mauve to dark purple.
