This morning Steve Joul led FOAW’s first wildflower walk through the woods. Your correspondent was unable to attend but has heard that it was a great success – attended by 15 adults and a number of children.
Over 70 species of flower were spotted as listed below. Since your correspondent was not there, he was unable to take any pictures – but here are a few taken by Steve on other occasions so that you can at least gain an impression of the walk.
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- narthecium ossifragum Bog Asphodel
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- hesperis matronalis Sweet Rocket
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- digitalis purpurea Foxglove
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- silene dioica Red Campion
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- carex pendula – Pendulous Sedge
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- geranium robertianum Herb Robert
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- silene dioica Red Campion
The flowers spotted on the walk were:
Bog Asphodel; Wood Avens; Himalayan Balsam; Heath Bedstraw; Creeping Bent; Bilberry; Bird’s-foot Trefoil; Brambles; Creeping Buttercup; Meadow Buttercup; Red Campion; Greater Celandine; Creeping Cinquefoil; Cleavers; White Clover; Cock’s Foot; Columbine; Common Couch; Daisy; Dame’s Violet; Dandelion; Red Dead-nettle; Broad-leaved Dock; Curled Dock; Elder; Enchanter’s-nightshade; Red Fescue; Foxglove; Meadow Foxtail; Common Gorse; Ground-elder; Tufted Hair-grass; Wavy Hair-grass; Bell Heather; Herb-Robert; Hogweed; Honeysuckle; Yellow Iris; Hairy Lady’s-mantle; Annual Meadow-grass; Rough Meadow-grass; Smooth Meadow-grass; Black Medick; Purple Moor-grass; Common Mouse-ear; Garlic Mustard; Hedge Mustard; Common Nettle; Nipplewort; Wild Oat; False Oat-grass; Cow Parsley; Ribwort Plantain; Soft Rush; Toad Rush; Perennial Rye-grass; Pendulous Sedge; Snowberry; Creeping Soft-grass; Common Sorrell; Prickly Sow-thistle; Common Spike-rush; Creeping Thistle; Purple Toadflax; Sweet Vernal Grass; Meadow Vetchling; Water-Dropwort; Broad-leaved Willowherb; Rosebay Willowherb; Field Wood-rush; Hedge Woundwort; Yorkshire Fog.
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