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Danish: Slåen/Slåentorn, Finnish: Oratuomi, Icelandic: Þyrniplóma, Norwegian: Slåpetorn, Swedish: Slån/Slånbär. Text and top photo by Linn Borgen Nilsen. Blackthorn or sloe belongs to the rose family and is a deciduous shrub, native to Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa. Its...
Danish: pibeløg, Finnish: pillisipuli, Icelandic: pipulaukur, Norwegian: pipeløk, Swedish: piplök. Text by Kristina Bjureke. Photos by Kristina Bjureke and NordGen. The Welsh onion is a perennial plant with inflated leaves as long as the stem. The flowers are white and...
(Danish: hvid-kløver, Finnish: valkoapila, Icelandic: hvítsmári, Norwegian: hvitkløver, Swedish: vitklöver.) Text by Magnus Göransson and Jens Weibull. Top photo by Magnus Göransson. White clover is such a common plant that it is easily forgotten, but it is important in both...
(Swedish: åkermynta, Norwegian: åkermynte, Finnish: rantaminttu, Danish: Ager-mynte). Text by Charlotte Goodman, top photo by Virva Lyytikäinen. Mentha arvensis, common name wild, corn or field mint, is a herbaceous plant commonly used as a flavouring in food, drink and cosmetics....
(Swedish: blåbär, Norwegian: blåbær, Finnish: mustikka, Danish: blåbær, Icelandic: aðalbláber). Text by Remi Moerenhout, top photo by Peter Henriksson. One of the delicious berry species found in the Nordic forests is the bilberry, also called European blueberry, blaeberry, huckleberry, or...
(Danish: korbær; Finnish: sinivatukka; Icelandic: daggarber; Norwegian: blåbringebær; Swedish: blåhallon.) Text by Heli Fitzgerald, top photo by Saxifraga/Jan van der Straaten. European dewberry (Rubus caesius) is a small shrub belonging to the large and diverse genus Rubus, which includes many...
(Danish: Fjeld-rapgræs; Finnish: Tunturinurmikka; Icelandic: Fjallasveifgras; Norwegian: Fjellrapp; Swedish: Fjällgröe.) Text and photos by Magnus Göransson. Plants have many ways to reproduce. Most grasses are either wind pollinated or self-pollinated and produce seed as a result of that pollination, including...
Text by Kristina Bjureke, all photos by Oddvar Pedersen. Wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum ssp. raphanistrum is an old field weed that probably came to Scandinavia in the Bronze Age or Stone Age (Hartvig 2015 about Denmark). Wild radish is annual....
If somebody, some 25 years ago, had said that we in the Nordic countries would become large consumers of rocket, it probably would have raised deep suspicion and distrust. “Rocket?” you wonder. It sounds a bit more like a super-sweet...
Text by Jens Weibull, top photo by Peter Henriksson. ” − The reason for the Swedish name hundäxing is said to be that the dogs, when they want to vomit, chew especially this grass, whose rough leaves easily achieve the...
