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This 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.
The story is told by Phil Smith in the attached paper.
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The Hoylake trip will be on 10th not the 17th September as originally advertised
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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
​https://archive.bsbi.org.uk/BSBINews119.pdf
​https://archive.bsbi.org.uk/BSBINews119.pdf
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Thale 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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In 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
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
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Mouse-ear leaves, it’s how it gets the name. -
Cherry in flower. -
Garlic Mustard -
Slender Speedwell Veronica filiformis. -
Field Horsetail in spore -
Wood Forget-me-not, as pavement plants originating from gardens. -
Honesty -
Silver Birch -
Larch coming into leaf. -
Danish Scurvy Grass -
Hornbeam catkins -
cherry blossom -
Gorse -
Common Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha ssp.ruderalis -
Wild Cherry -
Ivy-leaved Speedwell -
Common Whitlow Grass -
Ivy-leaved Toadflax on wall -
Dogwood flower bud -
Ash bud -
Buddleia growing on chimney -
Poplar catkins -
Green Alkanet -
Hairy Bittercress -
Bonfire Moss Funaria hygrometrica -
Coltsfoot -
Grey-cushioned Grimmia Moss Grimmia pulvinata -
Spring Beauty as wall top plant -
Marble Gall Andricus kollari gall on oak -
Common Whitlow Grass as wall top plant -
Rue- leaved Saxifrage as wall top plant -
Red - dead nettle -
Rust fungus Puccinia phragmitis on dock leaf -
Herb Robert -
Gall on willow, but it’s causer is still uncertain - virus or phytoplasma probably. Very common on most willows, most noticeable in winter. -
Daisy -
Coltsfoot -
Sunrise over Waterloo -
Garden Pansy in pavement cracks -
Sticky Mouse-ear flower buds -
Polypody Fern
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Clustered 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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A suprising number of species (23) still in flower, so late in the season
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Danish Scurvy Grass in flower.
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February at Formby
Yellow Archangel garden form argentatum
Spotted Dead-nettle
Polypody Fern
Coltsfoot
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