在过去三个世纪中，在英国演化的杂种作物 — — 如大米草和猴面花 — — 要比整个欧洲灭绝的作物（以灭绝记录为准）更多。
More new hybrid plants – such as cord grass and monkey flowers – have evolved in the UK in the last three centuries than have gone extinct throughout Europe over the same period (according to existing records).