CONSERVATIONISTS last night called for action to stop wild flowers being wiped out in the Welsh countryside. Three plants once common in North Wales are on a list of 13 facing a serious threat of extinction in the UK. Experts drew up the endangered "red" list after a two-year survey. It was the most detailed analysis of British flowers ever undertaken. North Wales' unlucky trio are the yellow bird's nest, which can be found on sand dunes such as those in New-borough, Anglesey, the holly fern, found high up in Snow-donia and the lesser butterfly, which is just about hanging on in grassland areas. A team of botanists was supported by organisations including the Countryside Council for Wales and the charity Plantlife Wales. They found one in five wild flowers threatened with rapid decline. Trevor Dines of Bangor-based Plantlife Wales said: "There are many species included that have never appeared on any threat list but are now known to be in rapid decline." "We have been successful at looking after our rarer species, but the red list shows we have not been so good at preventing widespread species declining." | 
