This is the typical oak of low-lying terrain with deep, humid soil. Found in lowland forests, along rivers and near springs, as well as in well-preserved hedges or with...

A sand-loving species whose clumps hold the windblown sand contributing to the building up of coastal dunes.

Another sand-loving species, this is the first terrestrial plant to colonise a beach towards the foreshore. Small heaps of sand blown by the wind gather around these...

This North American species has spread widely in floodplains and along the coasts. It is an exotic, infesting species that greatly modifies the environments it colonises and is...

A shrub and small tree, it is resistant to drought and salty soils as mentioned by D’Annunzio in the poem “la pioggia nel pineto”: “the brackish and...

A halophyte species whose yellow flowers colour the summer landscape of the lagoon sandbanks.

A shrub or small tree of rounded form normally present along waterways near springs, and amidst reeds on peaty and often flooded soils.

A species of evergreen oak, it is the main constituent of the Mediterranean maquis and locally can be found between the Timavo river and Miramare castle and in the coastal...

Frequent in the sea and in lagoons, and like dwarf eelgrass forms extensive fields which are very important for fish and waterfowl.