Drooping flowers on the rocks

Golden carpets on the rocks

The characteristic tree of wet coastal forests

The liquorice of the forest

Horsetails of shores and wastelands

Beautiful but poisonous

Calluna vulgaris

The harmless hoary alyssum

Cetraria islandica

Traditional dye plant

Fragrant queen of summer nights

May lily

Large fern

Juicy, edible leaves

Impressive fern

Large bellflower

Inflorescence like a rabbit’s fluffy tail

The scourge of the shores

Here and there on Helsinki’s shores

A magical fairy tale herb

Eye-catching and fragrant

Violet rugs on the rocksBlue-violet flower carpets on the rocks

Tree-knocker

A powerful voice

The most common waterfowl in the Baltic Sea

Small but energetic

Fast as an arrow

Deep diver on Helsinki’s shores

Carduelis chloris

Black back, yellow feet

Common shore bird

Highly distinctive song

Motacilla alba

Haliaetus albicilla

Sylvia communis

A song like a coin rolling on a table

A runaway that has found shelter in Finland

Helsinki offers ideal habitats for bats

Tracks by the ice

Pipisrellus nathusii

The northernmost lizard in the world

Lonely hunter of forest clearings

Bombus

From a delight to a bother

Like a small jewel on a rock

Aviator in October