Forgive me if I am unaware of a new location but I thought Stanner Rocks was the only location. Andrew Ferguson, the Warden there, is happy to show it - in...
Hi all; yes Andy is the contact you need; very helpful and informative; he is also the contact you need to see Perennial Knawel (ssp perennis) at its only...
Search for sedge species starts The sedge was found on the west coast of Scotland The UK public is being called upon to help hunt for a rare grass-like plant. ...
Is it really over already ? Two flowers were still not fully open 7 days ago. But it is unseasonably warm... What I cannot understand about G, bohemica at...
Rodney I am not aware of G bohemica at Craig Breidden, which is a working quarry with no access. G. bohemica occurs on NNR in Radnorshire. Warden/manager who...
Ruth Dawes
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Feb 1, 2007 7:07 pm
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... There seems to be an anomily here - can we have an authentic sort please? Chris Stamford...
Hi all Unless someone knows different the only site for Bohemica is Stanner Rocks in Rads; Breidden Quarry is a site for Rock Cinquefoil (P.rupestris). Cheers ...
Hi Just to add a bit more about Gagea bohemica. The plant is very early this year but it is still in flower and some plants are still just in bud. It is...
Andy Shaw
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Feb 2, 2007 11:54 am
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Many thanks for the updated info on Gagea bohemica etc. I'm not a botanical twitcher (botcher??) but I had thought that I may be in the area this weekend....
As a follow-up to my December list, I kept a note of all plants in flower in January - with the added twist that Carl Farmer in Scotland was doing the same....
Hi we have a small group that is researching some aspects of the Caricies. My interest is primarily with the Carex flava agg whereas Colin Smith is ...
Hi all, With apologies for this being a little out of geographical range, but we have a female Cycad - Zamia furfuracea, which is about to cone. I'm very keen...
Hello, 12 February 2007 7:30 pm Natural History of Mill Hill, north of Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex Slide Show and Talk by Andy Horton Subjects: geology and...
Hello, I have not looked for flowers and I forgot to check out the Tamarisk (naturalised) but I did have Ivy-leaved Toadflax, and Sweet Violet and Ox-eyed...
Dear All, rECOrd now has its 'new' online data input system running on the website (http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk) - merely bring the site up and click on the...
Hello, Is anybody informed (more than the popular books) on Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)? Thinking of ground disturbance possibly affecting distribution...
Hi Andy, Harebell is primarily a plant of acid soils, so on the downs it'll mainly be on tertiary deposits (clay with flints) near the top and where it's...
Given the abundance of acid soil, it is odd that it is so rare up here - very few sites on Skye and not seen on Raasay for over 35 years...... Stephen ... ...
Hello Malcolm, Thanks Malcolm. That has explained it. One odd incidence on chalk soil stood out. It was a location near the allotments, and people dumping...
Interesting. I thought it was a plant of base rich nutrient poor soils. In Cornwall I have only seen it at Kynance Cove on Serpentine. And the only other...
Hello, The Sussex Plant Atlas gives the Harebell as found in "dry grassland and heathy* places, common on the chalk, occasional elsewhere but almost absent ...
Addenda: The mining bee Melitta haemorrhoidalis has an obligate association with Campanula flowers, usually Harebell but also Nettle-leaved bellflower and ...
Here in Essex I have only seen C. rotundifolia where there are sandy deposits, which I would take to be somewhat acid at least. However, Grime, Hodgson & Hunt...
Hi All Certainly on the North Downs locally it is common especially on rabbit-grazed chalk turf but equally an excellent display can be seen on the cricket...
Harebell is certainly a plant of chalk downs here in west Kent. Like all campanulas it has a bitter latex and rabbits won't touch it except perhaps to nibble...
Hi Rodney All I have found Harebell on the south facing slope of well grazed pasture on coal measures here in Yorkshire which are predominantly acid I would...
