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Thread #21059   Message #222836
Posted By: bassen
04-May-00 - 09:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Flowers & Weeds - Which in Your Country?
Subject: RE: BS: Flowers & Weeds - Which in Your Country?
There are now official "county wildflowers" in Norway, selected not by popular vote, but by the National Botanical Museum and the Norwegian Botanical Society. You can see them here Click on each county. Gives you an idea of some of the most common wildflowers in Norway. If some of them seem a little strange, like beech trees, remember that what's common one place is rare another, especially this far north. White clover is Oslo's flower, because the only place it occurs naturally in the wild in Norway, is on the island Hovedøya, which is part of the city of Oslo...

bassen