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  • We have already lost 43% of our flora including such treasures as the yellow fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) and swamp pink (Helonias bullata).

    Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011

  • We have already lost 43% of our flora including such treasures as the yellow fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) and swamp pink (Helonias bullata).

    Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011

  • We have already lost 43% of our flora including such treasures as the yellow fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) and swamp pink (Helonias bullata).

    Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011

  • We have already lost 43% of our flora including such treasures as the yellow fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) and swamp pink (Helonias bullata).

    Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City Marielle Anzelone 2011

  • In the damp hollows and interdunal valleys (Monte Negro) tree heather Erica scoparia and heath E. ciliaris grow, succeeding cork oak Quercus suber and strawberry trees Arbutus unedo.

    Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

  • Sudano-Sahelian vegetation encircles Bandiagara and Sangha, dominated by open savanna and steppe with scattered Acacia raddiana, A. albida, Balanites aegyptiaca and Cenchrus ciliaris.

    Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali 2009

  • The introduction of buffel grass (Cechrus ciliaris) for cattle grazing has been particularly harmful; it accumulates, forming combustible litter that causes the complete burning of ironwood and other plants.

    Sonoran desert 2009

  • Surrounding the pans on a larger scale (on less brackish soil) are grasslands dominated by Odyssea paucinervis and Cynodon dactylon with Cenchrus ciliaris and Eriochloa meyeriana dominating the crests of calcrete escarpments.

    Zambezian halophytics 2008

  • The diet of Queen Angelfish (Holocanthus ciliaris) is made up almost entirely of sponges, 97%, with the balance made up of algae and invertebrates.

    Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean 2008

  • The dominant grasses are Cenchrus ciliaris, Digitaria milanjiana, Eragrostis spp., and Dichanthium papillosum.

    Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands 2007

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