Recording all plants growing wild in Somerset, not just the rarities!
You can read about our visit on 1st August to the largest remaining patch of acid mire on the levels here. We found a range of insectivorous plants and a number of characteristic ferns.
Val Graham and Helena Crouch have updated the group’s general recording card to reflect the name changes introduced in Stace’s Fourth Edition of the New Flora of the British Isles. Careful tending by Helena has produced a fine crop of blue cards. Order yours now! It is also available for download under the Activities > Recording menu.
Our maps showing the number of records and number of taxa recorded in each km square of Somerset have been updated to add records entered into MapMate since 19th January this year. You’ll find them in the menus under Activities > Recording > Coverage Maps.
On 4th July nine members visited Hilcombe Hanging and Beaumont’s Wood near Alfred’s Tower on the eastern edge of Somerset. The report is available here.
SAHNS is hosting an online talk on Somerset’s coastal wildlife by Nigel Phillips on Saturday 10th July. Click here for details.
You can read here about a damp but successful day out last month, at Adcombe Wood and Woodram Copse in the Blackdowns. Adder’s-tongue, Zigzag Clover, Herb-Paris and Midland Hawthorn were among the highlights.
Around a dozen members had a memorable day out at one of the most important rocky limestone sites on the Mendip scarp earlier this month. You can read the report here.
Liz and Helena led small groups visiting the coast around Clevedon on 2nd May. You can read their reports here.
Our first field meeting of the year was held at Quants SSSI (Blackdown Hills) on 18th April. You can read all about it in Simon’s report on the new meeting reports page.
The latest target species for which we need to update our records is the diminutive Adder’s-tongue fern Ophioglossum vulgatum. You can find a spreadsheet of places to search, compiled by Liz McDonnell, on the Adder’s-tongue page.
