Flora of South Georgia facts for kids

This is a list of the flora of South Georgia, an island in the subantarctic Atlantic Ocean, part of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. There are 26 native plant species, and there has been 76 species of introduced plants recorded on the island.

Introduced species tend to be located in the areas of human settlement, such as the former sealing and whaling stations.

Spore producing plants
	Common name
Blechnum penna-marina	Antarctic hard-fern or small fern
Cystopteris fragilis	Brittle bladder-fern or common fragile fern
Grammitis poeppigeana	Strap fern
Hymenophyllum falklandicum	Filmy fern
Lycopodium magellanicum	Magellanic clubmoss
Ophioglossum crotalophoroides	Adder's tongue
Polystichum mohrioides	Shield-fern

Seed plants
Latin name	Common name
Acaena magellanica	Greater burnet
Acaena magellanica × tenera	Hybrid burnet
Acaena tenera	Lesser burnet
Alopecurus magellanicus	Antarctic foxtail
Callitriche antarctica	Antarctic starwort
Colobanthus quitensis	Antarctic pearlwort
Colobanthus subulatus	Lesser pearlwort or sessile pearlwort or emerald bog
Deschampsia antarctica	Antarctic hair-grass
Festuca contracta	Tufted fescue
Galium antarcticum	Antarctic bedstraw
Juncus inconspicuous	Lesser rush
Juncus scheuchzerioides	Greater native rush
Montia fontana	Water blinks
Phleum alpinum	Alpine cats-tail
Poa flabellata	Tussac grass
Ranunculus biternatus	Antarctic buttercup
Rostkovia magellanica	Brown (or short) rush
Uncinia macrolepis	Smith's sedge

See also