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 ==== Brussels Plants ====
    * Koolmijnenkaai plants
-the information about plants which were found around the FoAM building/ Koolmijnenkaai 30-34
+the information about plants which grows around the FoAM building/ Koolmijnenkaai 30-34
    * Solanum dulcamara
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    * Hordeum murinum (wall barley)
+   * Plantago major(Broad-Leaved Plantain)
+   * Buddleja Davidii (Butterfly Bush)
+   * Pissenlit officinal or Taraxacum officinale(Dandelion)
+   * Crepis tectorum (Narrow-Leaved Hawk's-Beard)
+   * Conyza canadensis
+   * Galinsoga ciliata
+   * Marchantiophyta/Pellia epiphylla (Liverwort)
+--Description--
+Most liverworts are small, usually from 2–20 millimetres (0.08–0.8 in) wide with individual plants less than 10 centimetres (4 in) long,[5] so they are often overlooked. The most familiar liverworts consist of a prostrate, flattened, ribbon-like or branching structure called a thallus (plant body); these liverworts are termed thallose liverworts. However, most liverworts produce flattened stems with overlapping scales or leaves in three or more ranks, the middle rank being conspicuously different from the outer ranks; these are called leafy liverworts or scale liverworts.[6][7]
+Liverworts can most reliably be distinguished from the apparently similar mosses by their single-celled rhizoids.[8] Other differences are not universal for all mosses and all liverworts;[7] but the lack of clearly differentiated stem and leaves in thallose species, or in leafy species the presence of deeply lobed or segmented leaves and the presence of leaves arranged in three ranks, all point to the plant being a liverwort.[9][10] In addition, 90% of liverworts contain oil bodies in at least some of their cells, and these cellular structures are absent from most other bryophytes and from all vascular plants.[11] The overall physical similarity of some mosses and leafy liverworts means that confirmation of the identification of some groups can be performed with certainty only with the aid of microscopy or an experienced bryologist.
+Liverworts have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, with the sporophyte dependent on the gametophyte.[11] Cells in a typical liverwort plant each contain only a single set of genetic information, so the plant's cells are haploid for the majority of its life cycle. This contrasts sharply with the pattern exhibited by nearly all animals and by most other plants. In the more familiar seed plants, the haploid generation is represented only by the tiny pollen and the ovule, while the diploid generation is the familiar tree or other plant.[12] Another unusual feature of the liverwort life cycle is that sporophytes (i.e. the diploid body) are very short-lived, withering away not long after releasing spores.[13] Even in other bryophytes, the sporophyte is persistent and disperses spores over an extended period.
+--Ecology--
+Today, liverworts can be found in many ecosystems across the planet except the sea and excessively dry environments, or those exposed to high levels of direct solar radiation.[18] As with most groups of living plants, they are most common (both in numbers and species) in moist tropical areas.[19] Liverworts are more commonly found in moderate to deep shade, though desert species may tolerate direct sunlight and periods of total desiccation.
+-Information source:
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchantiophyta