Today threw a complete curve ball, where I was expecting one thing but found something completely different. Work took me to Kirkshaw Lane, Ferrybridge (VC63) to look at a pond (no water and lost to swamp) but my eye was draw to a little bedstraw growing on a vegetated track nearby. My mind quickly ran through the usual options and discounted them all, leaving only one unexpected option to which it ran down quite nicely in the keys - Wall Bedstraw (Galium parisiense).
This is an uncommon species nationally, particularly this far north, and the BSBI database does not appear to hold any other records for Yorkshire.
I am the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) Vice-County Recorder for Huntingdonshire (VC31) and Mid-West Yorkshire (VC64). I've set-up this botany blog to more readily share news on recent wildflower discoveries made by myself and others, to encourage wider recording, and as a way to challenge myself to take more photographs of the plants I find. See the BSBI website for more information on the work of the society and the diverse range of botany projects currently in progress.
Thursday 14 July 2016
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