Ireland Burren

To the north-east of the Cliffs of Moher, a partly bizarre, treeless karst landscape, the "Burren", stretches over 250 km². Together they are a UNESCO Global Geopark. "Stony place" is probably the meaning of Burren. Often these are bare limestone plateaus that allow little vegetation. This makes the diversity of plants in the extreme karst areas all the more astonishing. And plants from alpine and Mediterranean as well as from arctic vegetation zones are represented here.