<![CDATA[LIVERPOOL BOTANICAL SOCIETY - Blog]]>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:14:00 +0000Weebly<![CDATA[Bell Heather at Ainsdale]]>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:54:15 GMThttps://www.livbotsoc.org/blog/bell-heather-at-ainsdaleThis summer a new plant for the Sefton Coast was found at Ainsdale NNR. Bell Heather Erica cinerea.
​The story is told by Phil Smith in the attached paper.
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]]><![CDATA[Change of date Hoylake trip]]>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:49:03 GMThttps://www.livbotsoc.org/blog/change-of-date-hoylake-tripThe Hoylake trip will be on 10th not the 17th September as originally advertised ]]><![CDATA[Hungarian Mullein at Formby]]>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 06:09:23 GMThttps://www.livbotsoc.org/blog/hungarian-mullein-at-formby
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The Hungarian Mullein Verbascum speciosum near Firwood, Formby (SD28030586) has eight in flower and sixty-three just in leaf.  Phil Smith's paper on the original finding of this species is in BSBI News 119 page 56 at
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]]><![CDATA[Thale Cress]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:31:25 GMThttps://www.livbotsoc.org/blog/thale-cressThale Cress Arabidopsis thaliana is now the commonest pavement plant in Waterloo. Each year it dominates the walls and cracks for just a couple of weeks, the rest of the year it is pretty inconspicuous, though I have seen it in flower for 10 months of the year, March to December. Native to Eurasia and North Africa it has been introduced and naturalised in the Americas, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. It was the first plant to have it’s genome sequenced in 2000, as it is has relatively few base pairs, just around  135 million. The life cycle can be completed in just 6 weeks.
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]]><![CDATA[Spring 2020 around Waterloo]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:37:43 GMThttps://www.livbotsoc.org/blog/spring-2020-around-waterlooIn March / April been restricted to the flora of the Waterloo area (but that is what I am studying anyway). Principally the streets and the Rimrose Valley.
There is an interesting article on the flowering times of urban Cambridge by Chris PrestonThe phenology of an urban street flora: a transect study in British and Irish Botany at https://britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bib/article/view/44

]]><![CDATA[Clustered Clover at Kenilworth Road, Ainsdale]]>Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:08:10 GMThttps://www.livbotsoc.org/blog/clustered-clover-at-kenilworth-road-ainsdaleClustered Clover Trifolium glomeratum is principally a species of dry, light, drought-prone often somewhat acidic sandy or stony soils near the coast, but also also a rare casual inland. The only known site in the North West of England was at Thornbeck Avenue, Hightown reported on by Phil Smith in BSBI News 124 p35 (link here). I found  about a dozen plants at Kenilworth Road, Ainsdale at SD3072712438 (SD31B) on 7/6/18 in mown grassland close to Shore Road. Kenilworth Road is very rich in plants see the account by Phil Smith's and Pat Lockwood in BSBI News 119 p 34 (link here)
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