Botanising in Huntingdonshire, Yorkshire and Beyond

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.

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Monday, 24 April 2017

Alexanders in Giggleswick (VC64)

Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum) is a rare plant in VC64 and indeed Yorkshire in general. It is a more familiar plant further south, particularly in the southeast and southwest of England. See the BSBI Distribution Database for its current distribution.

Mike Canaway adds a new dot to its distribution, having found it in the Dales at Giggleswick. He forwards the following photographs.

Sunday, 19 June 2016

Perfoliate Alexanders New to Huntingdonshire

Jessica Hatchett of the Wildlife Trust has sent news of a recent find of Perfoliate Alexanders (Smyrnium perfoliatum) when surveying Coppingford Lane (VC31). This is a surprising location for the first VC record of this species given, with the exception of a nearby farm, it is distant from habitation.

This species is scarcely recorded away from the Greater London area where it can be very abundant, but there are a few records for Cambridgeshire.

Photo by Sten Porse from Wikimedia Commons