In 2002

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ran a "County Flowers" campaign to assign flowers to each of the

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and the

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. The results of this campaign designated a single plant species to a "county or metropolitan area" in the UK and Isle of Man. Some English counties already had flowers traditionally associated with them before 2002, and which were different from those assigned to them by

, including the white rose for Yorkshire (assigned the harebell), the poppy for Norfolk (assigned the Alexanders), and the cowslip for Essex (assigned the poppy). Some flowers were assigned to multiple counties.

England

Isle of Man

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

Notes

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Bibliography

The list of county flowers above is taken from the county flowers pages at Plantlife's website
* County statuses are taken from: **

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, R. G. Ellis, D. H. Kent and D. J. McCosh (2003) '' Vice-county Census Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Great Britain''

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(for British counties) ** ''Source to be determined'' for Northern Ireland Lists of flowers County flowers