Flora

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The images on this page feature in The Peatlands installation. Tina Claffey’s images are from various bogs, wetlands and eskers across Ireland. Charleen Hurtubise’s images focus is on life found in the blanket bog habitat around Liffey Head Bog in the Wicklow Mountains National Park. Open the images to learn about the characteristics of the plant life found in blanket and raised bog habitats. These images are only a very small sample of the life that exists in The Peatlands. Extensive information on the flora of Irish bogs can be found through Irish Peatland Conservation Council and Wildflowers of Ireland.