NEW YEAR PLANT HUNT   2 January 2016

As part of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland's New Year Plant Hunt we took a 3-hour walk from Natural Surroundings down to Glandford and back. We managed to find the impressive total of 67 wild-growing plants in flower (and could have added a few more if we had hopped over a barbed wire fence into a nearby beet field!).

Common Poppy
Bulbous Buttercup
Creeping Buttercup
Meadowsweet
Creeping Cinquefoil
Wood Avens
Small Nettle
Pellitory of the Wall
Sun Spurge
Petty Spurge

Field Pansy
Hybrid pansy V. x contempta
Dovesfoot Cranesbill
Herb Robert
Flixweed
Hedge Mustard
Rape
Wild Radish
Swine Cress
Lesser Swine Cress

Field Pennycress
Shepherd’s Purse
Wavy Bittercress
Red Campion
White Campion
Common Chickweed
Scarlet Pimpernel
Green Alkanet
Black Nightshade
Common Field Speedwell

Germander Speedwell
Thyme-leaved Speedwell
Ivy-leaved Toadflax
White Dead-nettle
Red Dead-nettle
Black Horehound
Musk Thistle
Catsear
Dandelion
Smooth Hawksbeard

Bristly Oxtongue
Nipplewort
Smooth Sowthistle
Prickly Sowthistle
Daisy
Mexican Fleabane
Blue Fleabane
Canadian Fleabane
Feverfew
Yarrow

Scentless Mayweed
Pineappleweed
Common Ragwort
Groundsel
Winter Heliotrope
Red Valarian
Hogweed
Alexanders
Wild Angelica
Common Gorse

Cherry Plum
Bramble
Hazel
Ivy
Wild Oats
Cock’s-foot
Annual Meadow Grass

Total 67