On November 17, the Service proposed to list Spalding's catchfly as a threatened species. |
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A member of the carnation family, Spalding's catchfly is a long-lived perennial herb with small greenish-white flowers. |
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And at Foxholes Heath, we find tiny surviving patches of Spanish catchfly along the road bank that follows the old droveway. |
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A large number of wild flowers have been planted, including sticky catchfly, dropwort and meadow crane's bill and the trees include prunis, oak, rowan and lime. |
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Rare plants include purple gromwell, cornish moneywort, pale butterwort, small-flowered catchfly, and yellow bartsia. |
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However,theone that most caught the eye was Edinburgh favourite plant the sticky catchfly. |
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A wide-growing, clump-forming catchfly, only 20 cm high. |
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The lower rate can be used for control of shepherd's purse, cow cockle and night-flowering catchfly at the 1-3 leaf stage of the crop or for control of smartweed at the 4-6 leaf stage. |
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The latter contains over 100 species of flowering plants including the pink-blooming catchfly which grows on rocks in moss-like cushions capable of resisting strong winds. |
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Bumble bee pollination of the sticky catchfly in a fragmented agricultural landscape. |
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These include the small-flowered catchfly and corn buttercup. |
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In addition, Sticky Catchfly Lychnis viscaria was chosen for both Edinburgh and Midlothian, the county containing Edinburgh. |
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