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 Thanks to
traditional crofting methods, the island has over 250 species of flowering
plants. In summer the wetter areas are dotted with the bright yellow of bog
asphodel, the do purple of northern marsh orchids and, perhaps rarest all,
the frog orchid.
 From late May the
cliff tops are awash with the delicate blue of squill, which gives way in
June to a bright carpet of sea pinks, with the cliffs draped in curtains of
yellow birdsfoot trefoil and white sea campion. Prostrate juniper rare in
Shetland is abundant on the heather mood. with alpine species like least
willow and alpine bistort on the summit of Ward Hill. A wide variety of more
familiar plants thrive in the hay fields, cultivated rigs, grazing lands and
along the roadsides.
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