NEW YEAR PLANT HUNT 2 January 2019
We pushed ourselves and the clock to the limit today to get a good total and it certainly paid off. In a three-hour walk encompassing Natural Surroundings, some nearby beet fields (with the kind permission of the Bayfield Estate) and Glandford village, we managed to find no less than 71 wild-growing plants in flower, beating our best total. Although cooler than recent days, the weather was kind to us, with threatening clouds producing just a sprinkle of rain before it brightened up, and the promised northerly winds never really biting. Here’s the list:
Common Fumitory
Yellow-flowered Strawberry
Small Nettle
Pellitory of the Wall
Sun Spurge
Petty Spurge
Dog’s Mercury
Annual Mercury
Field Pansy
Dovesfoot Cranesbill
Small-flowered Cranesbill
Herb Robert
Holyhock
Weld
Wallflower
Flixweed
Hedge Mustard
Wild Raddish
Field Pennycress
Shepherd’s Purse
Wavy Bittercress
Broad-leaved Dock
Red Campion
Thyme-leaved Sandwort
Common Chickweed
Common Mouse-ear
Scarlet Pimpernel
Green Alkanet
Bugloss
Yellow Dodder
Black Nightshade
Common Field Speedwell
Grey Field Speedwell
Thyme-leaved Speedwell
Sharp-leaved Fluellen
Ivy-leaved Toadflax
White Dead-nettle
Red Dead-nettle
Cut-leaved Dead-nettle
Henbit Dead-nettle
Marsh Thistle
Cotton Thistle
Common Knapweed
Catsear
Goatsbeard
Dandelion
Smooth Hawksbeard
Bristly Oxtongue
Smooth Sow-thistle
Common Cudweed
Daisy
Blue Fleabane
Canadian Fleabane
Bilbao’s Fleabane
Feverfew
Yarrow
Oxeye Daisy
Scentless Mayweed
Pineappleweed
Common Ragwort
Groundsel
Winter Heliotrope
Hogweed
Wild Carrot
Wild Angelica
Bramble
Gorse
Hazel
Annual Meadow-grass
False Oat Grass
Cocksfoot