Abstract
A list of 804 plants endemic to Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands is broken down by country. There are 659 taxa endemic to Britain, 20 to Ireland and three to the Channel Islands. There are 25 endemic sexual species and 26 sexual subspecies, the remainder are mostly critical apomictic taxa. Fifteen endemics (2%) are certainly or probably extinct in the wild.
Highlights
This note provides a list of vascular plants endemic to Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands, updating the lists in Rich et al (1999), Dines (2008), Stroh et al (2014) and Wyse Jackson et al (2016)
There are two recent endemics described from Scotland, Alchemilla sciura and the diploid Dryopteris affinis subsp. cluthensis (Lynes, 2019; Church et al, 2019)
I differ from Stace (2019) in recognising Cochlearia atlantica but not accepting C. micacea or C. officinalis subsp. scotica, or Anthyllis vulneraria subsp. corbierei which is simple genetic variation (Rich, 2006)
Summary
This note provides a list of vascular plants endemic to Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands, updating the lists in Rich et al (1999), Dines (2008), Stroh et al (2014) and Wyse Jackson et al (2016). Introduction This note provides a list of vascular plants endemic to Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands, updating the lists in Rich et al (1999), Dines (2008), Stroh et al (2014) and Wyse Jackson et al (2016). The list includes endemics of subspecific rank or above, but excludes infraspecific taxa of lower rank and hybrids (for the latter, see Stace et al, 2015).
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