A new gallery of mistletoe images has been added to the mistletoe survey page. We’ve just selected some images we thought were interesting or pretty or both. There have been a few other changes to the survey page mainly to make it easier to navigate for new visitors. Any photograph submitted may be displayed in the gallery. They will be credited to the photographer and a general location will be included in the caption.
Mistletoe Map Update
If you haven’t seen the most recent version of the map, look now! And if your pink spot isn’t there, complain to the organisers..
Mistletoe Spreadsheet
If you have several records to enter it may be easier to fill in a spreadsheet. See the mistletoe survey page.
Eight new rare plant accounts
Our indefatigable Rare Plant Register editor has been busy researching grasses resulting in four new species accounts, namely: Leymus arenarius (Lyme grass), Vulpia ciliata subsp. ambigua (Bearded or Purple Fescue), Vulpia fasciculata (Dune Fescue), and Vulpia unilateralis (Mat-grass Fescue).
She has also recently written accounts for: Fragaria vesca (Wild Strawberry), Succisa pratensis (Devil’s-bit Scabious), Knautia arvensis (Field Scabious) and Juncus acutus (Sharp Rush).
Somerset Dandelions Checklist
Simon Leach and Graham Lavender and other Taraxacum fans have been busily recording dandelion species in Somerset over the last few years. A Taraxacum checklist for Somerset (VC5 and VC6) is now available here. We hope to add a Hieracium checklist next year and perhaps one for Rubus in due course. If you’d like to find out more about the work being done to record these often overlooked plants in Somerset a good place to start is this BSBI blogpost.
Somerset Mistletoe Survey
Vc 5 update on ferns
Go to Reports from VC5 – 2020. and see Graham’s interesting new update on some of his local ferns. Too many beautiful photographs to reproduce here!
Vc 5 Botrychium lunaria
Vc 5 updates:Trichomanes speciosum
Vc 5 Gentians
A pdf version of this is available for download under ‘Instead of Meetings’
