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Acacia 046.036
Acanthaceae - Bear's-breech 125
Acanthus 125.001
Acaena 048.034
Adiantum 012.003
Aeonium 043.005
Agapanthus 167.003
Agave 168.014
Aichryson 043.011
Aira 177.049
Aizoaceae - Dewplant 096
Allium 167.001
Amaryllidaceae - Daffodil 167
Amaryllis 167.006
Anthoxanthum 177.040
Aphanes 048.036
Aptenia 096.001
Arctosis 135.036
Aristea 165.001
Armeria 091.002
Asperagaceae - Asparagus 168
Aspleniaceae - Spleenwort 014
Asplenium 014.001
Asteraceae - Daisy 135
Crassulaceae - Stonecrop 043
Crepis 135.032
Fabaceae - Pea 046
Leucojum 167.009
Lythrum 072.001
Plumbaginaceae - Thrift 091
Poaceae - Grass 177
Pteridaceae - Ribbon fern 012
Rosaceae - Roses 048
Taraxacum 135.031
Sorbus 048.014
Symphyotrichum 135.058

(A)(B) Few to numerous simple
(A)B (Few) numerous simple
(A)C Few / no simple hairs
(D)(E) Few / some stellate
(F)(G) Few / some glandular
A Few simple hairs
A(B) Few to many simple hairs
A(occ) Occasional simple hairs
B Numerous simple
B(A) Numerous (few) simple hairs
C No simple
C(A) No (occasional) simple hairs
D Numerous/dense stellate
D(E) Dense (few) stellate
D(E) Numerous (few) stellate
D(out) dense stellate on outer only
E Few/No stellate
E(D) No / few (some) stellate
E(none) No stellate
F Numerous glandular
F(G) Numerous (few) glandular
F(mic) Numerous micro glandular
G No / few glandular
G(min) Few minute glandular
G(none) No glandular

(H)(I) Obtuse / Acute apex
(J)(K) +/- 11mm
(J)K (<)>11mm
<11mm
>11mm
H Obtuse apex
H(I) Obtuse (some acute) apex
H(outer) Obtuse apex outer bracts
I Acute apex
I(fil) Acute filamentous
I(H) Acute (obtuse) tips
J(K) <11mm(>11mm)
Reflexed tips

(S)T Bracts erect sub-erect spreading
Appressed
Arcuate
bl6-7
bl7
bl7-8
Border wide pale
Bordered
Bordered clear white
Bordered distinctly
Bordered slightly
bw2
bw2-3
Ciliate
Claw shaped
Erect
Erect on bud
inrolled
Length<12
Length>18
Messy
Narrow white border
Neat ruff
Oblong
Ovate
P < 10mm length
Pale green above
Pink tipped
Purple suffused above
R(rec) Arcuate recurved tip
radiate wheel spokes
Recurved
Reflexed
S(pat) Spreading (patent)
Sigmoid
Spreading
Spreading arcuate
Spreading erect
Spreading suberect
Twisted
U Unbordered
Unbordered
Upturned tips
V Bordered
Width <6
Width<1.5
Width<2
Width<2.5
Width<3
Width<3.5
Width<4
Width<4.5
Width<5
Width<5.5
X < 3.5mm wide

(V)(W) Small medium head
(W) small/med head
(W)(X) Medium to large capitula
(W)X Large (medium) capitula
Black bud apex
cap Few
cap1-10+
cap1-20
cap1-4
cap1-4(14)
cap1-5+
cap1-6
cap1-8
cap10-20+
cap2-10
cap2-12
cap2-15
cap2-20
cap2-4
cap2-5
cap2-50
cap2-6
cap2-8
cap3-10
cap3-12
cap3-15
cap3-20
cap4-20
cap5-16
Glabrous scape
Hairy scape
Ligules brown-purple
Ligules dark purple
Ligules grey-purple
Ligules greyish-brown
Ligules red-purple
Ligules short
Ligules striped pink
Ligules tipped blackish
Ligules tipped purple
Ligules tipped reddish
Long achene cone
Pollen absent
Pollen plentiful
Pollen present
Pollen sometimes
Scape arachnoid-hairy
Stigmas dark yellow
Striped dark brown
Striped grey-purple
Striped grey-violet
Striped purple
Teeth yellow
V small capitula head
V(W) Small (medium) head
W Medium
W(X) Medium / large
X Large capitula

(w)x Sometimes teeth on lower / proximal edge
Blotched
Blotched edge interlobes
Blotched interlobes
Blotched slightly
Blotched sometimes
Convex proximal margins
Crowded overlapping
Cucullate lobes
Entire
Entire distal/upper edge entire
Forward pointing
Heterophyllous
Interlobes toothed
Interlobes unblotched mainly lacking blackish / cu
Lateral 1-4
Lateral 2-4
Lateral 2-5
Lateral 3-4
Lateral 3-5
Lateral 3-6
Lateral 4-5
Lateral 4-6
Lateral 4-7
Lateral 4-8
Lateral 5-6
Lateral 5-7
Lateral 5-8
Lateral 6-10
Lateral 6-12
Lateral 6-7
Lateral forward pointing
Lateral lobes proximal/lower edge curved back
Lateral lobes proximal/lower edge hooked curved ba
ll4-5
ll4-6
Lobes alternate
Lobes dentate
Lobes often double
Lobes spaced
Patent
Proximal margin teeth
Proximal/lower edge entire lacking teeth
q(r) Entire (dentate) distal upper edge
r Toothed distal / upper edge
Recurved
Scarcely blotched
Scythe-like
Short
Smudged interlobes
Spathulate
Spatulate
t Interlobes toothed
t(dist) Interlobes toothed (distant lobes)
Terminal acuminate-extenuate
Terminal broad trilobate
Terminal hamate
Terminal helmet
Terminal large
Terminal long-sagittate
Terminal mucronate
Terminal narrow elongated
Terminal obtuse-rounded
Terminal onion spire
u Unblotched interlobes
Unblotched
v(mid) Interlobes blackish / dark (cut to midrib)
Variously directed
w Proximal lower edge entire
x Teeth on proximal / lower edge
z Proximal lower edge hooked curved back
z(rec) Proximal edge recurved

b Curled crisped plicate
b(int) Interlobes curled crisped
c Mid green
d Dark green
f Leaves narrow elliptical
g Upper surface glabrous / scarce hairs
h Hairy
Small
Spotted
Unspotted
Z Homophyllous no marked leaf difference

(P)(Q) Sometimes with spots
(T)(U) Entire / toothed
(Y) slightly hairy upper
(Y)(Z) sometimes hairy
(Y)Z Glabrous sometimes hairs
(Z) slightly glabrous upper
Acute apex
Ascending
Black-edged midrib
cl 0-1
cl 0-1(3)
cl 2-3
cl 2-4
cl 6-14
cl 8-20
cl few
Contorted
Creased most of length
Crisped
Crisped slightly
Dark bluish-green
Dark dirty green
Dark green
Dark grey-green
Decumbent
Deeply dissected
Erect
Flat
Glabrescent
Glaucous
Hairy
Heterophyllous
Homophyllous
Lanceolate
Lanceolate-spathulate
Leaves Spotted
Linear
Mid-green
Midrib bright purple
Midrib dull purple
Midrib white-green
Narrow laceolate
Narrow oblong
Oblanceolate
Oblong
Oblong-spatulate
Obovate
P Spotted
P(Q) Sometimes not spotted
Pale green
Prostrate
Punctate black spots
Q not spotted
Q(P) Occasional spotting
Shortly hairy
Skeletal
Slightly crisped
Small spots sometimes
Spathulate
Suberect
T no large teeth
T(ent) Entire edges
T(U) Entire/Serrate/Toothed
Terminal rounded lobules
U large teeth
Unblotched
Upper surface glaucous
Width<1.5cm
Y hairy upper surface
Y(bulb) Hairy upper surface bulbous base
Y(Z) Hairy (glabrous) upper surface
Y*(both) Hairy stellate both sides
Y*(caul) Hairy with cauline stellate
Z Glabrous upper
Z(Y) Glabrous (sometimes hairs)
Z(Y)* Stellate (simple) hairs on upper surface
Z* Stellate only (rough)

(a)(b) Few to many simple hairs
(c)(a) No / occasional simple hairs
(d)(e) Some stellate
(f)(g) Few / occasional glandular
a Few simple hairs
a(b) Few (numerous) simple
a(occ) Occasional simple hairs
b numerous simple
c No simple
c(a) No (occasional) simple hairs
d Numerous stellate
e Few stellate
e(d) Few (numerous) stellate
f Numerous glandular
f(few) Few glandular
f(min) Minute glandular
g no/few glandular
g(f) No / few (some) glandular
g(min) Few minute glandular
g(none) No glandular
g(occ) Occasional glandular

Broad expanded wings
Broadly winged
Green
Greenish-pink
Inner faint pink / green
Inner pink Outer pallid
Leaves hairy
Long and narrow
Midrib green-pinkish
Midrib greenish
Narrow unwinged
Narrow winged base
Obsolete
Outside whitish
Parallel winged
Petiole short
Petioles broad
Pink
Purple
Reddish
Sheathing
Short
Unwinged
White
White outer
White-green
Winged +/-
Winged base
Wings lobate
Wings long parallel

(A)(B) Petioles green or purplish
B Petioles all pink / purple
D Petiole unwinged (very slight)
F Midrib coloured / pinkish
F(G) Midrib coloured (green)
F(thr) Midrib pinkish threaded
G Lower midrib green / concolorous
H Scape hairy below capitula

Achene orange-brown red
Achene red
J(red) Reddish ligule teeth
K Ligule teeth yellow
L Stigma styles discoloured
M Stigma styles yellow
N Ligule stripe grey to violet
O(purp) Ligule stripe purple
O(red) Red ligule stripes
Pollen Absent
Pollen Present

(N)(O) Yellow / discoloured styles
(O) styles slightly discoloured
(R)(S) Occasional hairy ligule tips
N styles yellow
N(O) Styles yellow slight discoloured
N(orange) Orange styles
O styles discoloured
O(N) Discoloured (sometimes yellow) styles
Pollen Absent
R Ligules hairy at tip
R(S) Hairy (glabrous) ligule tips
S ligules glabrous
S(R) glabrous occasional hair
Stylose heads

i Entire / toothed edge
i(tri) Not subdivided trilobate
l Sigmoid / concave edge
m Helmet shaped / cucullate / convex
n acute / mucronate / sharp apex
n(ling) Acute acuminate lingulate sharp apex

VC01 IOS and W.Cornwall
VC11 S.Hampshire
VC22 Berkshire
VC23 Oxfordshire
VC24 Buckinghamshire
VC32 Northants
VC34 W.Gloucestershire
VC42 Breconshire
VC49 Caernarvonshire
VC62 NE.Yorkshire
VC65 NW.Yorkshire
VC69 Westmorland

135.034.303 Hieracium anglorum
135.034.307 Hieracium acuminatum
135.034.308 Hieracium consociatum
135.034.308.1 Hieracium sp. nova 3
135.034.310 Hieracium argillaceum
135.034.313 Hieracium aviicola
135.034.315 Hieracium pulchrius
135.034.318 Hieracium cheriense
135.034.394 Hieracium sublepistoides
135.034.397 Hieracium sylvivagum
135.034.398 Hieracium microspilum
135.034.399 Hieracium oblongum
135.034.403 Hieracium neosparsum
135.034.412 Hieracium asteridiophyllum
072.001.003 Lythrum hyssopifolium
135.025.018.1 Taraxacum lambinonii
135.025.035 Taraxacum palustre
135.025.207 Taraxacum rhamphodes
014.001.007 Asplenium obovatum - lanceolate spleenwort
167.009.002 Leucojum vernum - spring snowflake

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135.034.303 Hieracium anglorum

135.034.307 Hieracium acuminatum

135.034.308 Hieracium consociatum

135.034.308.1 Hieracium sp. nova 3

135.034.310 Hieracium argillaceum

135.034.313 Hieracium aviicola

135.034.315 Hieracium pulchrius

135.034.318 Hieracium cheriense

135.034.394 Hieracium sublepistoides

135.034.397 Hieracium sylvivagum

135.034.398 Hieracium microspilum

135.034.399 Hieracium oblongum

135.034.403 Hieracium neosparsum

135.034.412 Hieracium asteridiophyllum

072.001.003 Lythrum hyssopifolium

135.025.018.1 Taraxacum lambinonii

135.025.035 Taraxacum palustre

135.025.207 Taraxacum rhamphodes

014.001.007 Asplenium obovatum - lanceolate spleenwort

167.009.002 Leucojum vernum - spring snowflake