Plant Records 2018
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Plant records 2018 Explanatory notes The following list contains all species that are newly recorded for a 10km grid square within Wiltshire. In this list ‘new’ refers to records gathered since the early 1980’s and the publication of the 1993 Wiltshire Flora. In addition, the word ‘recent’ refers to this period also. The information contains both scientific and common names based on the New Flora of the British Isles 3rd edition. (Stace); together with site, brief information where supplied and the initials of the recorder. First County or Vice-county records appear in bold italics. For interest some species may have the IUCN threat criteria attached as documented in A Vascular Plant Red List for England (BSBI:2014). Initials of Recorders AA - Anne Appleyard PLe – Penny Lee ABy - Andrew Bray PM – Peter Marren ARb – Alison Robinson PMW – Pat Woodruffe CK – Clare Kitchen PQ – Phil Quinn CPu – C.Puddy RAi – Richard Aisbitt DG - Dave Green RDu – Rosemary Duckett DMo – David Morris SFi – Sue Fitzpatrick DP – David Pickering SG – Sarah Grinstead HCr – Helena Crouch SJJ – Steve Jackson HD – Heather Dixon SPi – Sharon Pilkington JAN – John A Norton TCGR – Tim Rich JAS – Jean A Smith TS – T.Smith JBe – Jenny Bennett U3AK – Kennet Flora & Fauna Group JBr – Jane Brown VW – Vanessa Williams JRM – John Moon WBS – Wiltshire Botanical Society JWs – Jasmine Walters KC – K.Crow Qualifying initials LMo – Lindsay Moore MBu – Martin Buckland SPTA – Salisbury Plain Training Area MK – Mark Kitchen NBr – Nigel Brown IUCN – International Union for the NC – Nigel Cope Conservation of Nature NQ – Nicola Quinn NS – Nationally scarce NYB - N.Yeatman-Biggs CR – Critically endangered PCa – Patrick Cashman EN – Endangered PD – Paul Darby VU – Vulnerable PDS – Paul Stanley NT – Near Threatened PK – Paul Kennedy VC7 Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale Cress); Royal Wootton Bassett (SU08), MBu; Pike Corner Aegopodium podagraria (Ground-elder); (SU09), MBu & DG. Shire Hill (ST77), DG. Arctium minus ssp. minus (Lesser Burdock); Alchemilla mollis (Garden Lady’s-mantle); Highway Hill (SU07); DMo & TS. Manor Farm, Winterbourne Monkton (SU07); Yatesbury (SU07), both MBu; A4 Froxfield Arenaria leptoclados (Slender Sandwort); (SU36), RAi; Ramsbury (SU27), RAi & U3AK. Kingston St. Michael (ST97); Shire Hill (ST77), both DG. Alisma lanceolatum (Narrow-leaved Water- plantain); Cocklemore Brook near Lackham Arenaria serpyllifolia (Thyme-leaved (ST97); throughout the length of disused Sandwort); Hullavington Airfield (ST98), SPi; canal, DG. Shire Hill (ST77); Littleton Dew west (ST88), both DG. Allium subhirsutum (Hairy Garlic); Corsham (ST8606170173), six clumps along a footpath, Armoracia rusticana (Horse-radish); Hinton an increasingly recorded species, DG. Parva (SU28), RAi. 1st Wiltshire record. Asplenium adiantum-nigrum (Black Allium vineale (Wild Onion); East of Spleenwort); Aldbourne Village (SU27), RAi; Yatesbury Field (SU07), ARb; Breach Lane, Beanacre (ST96), two records of which one Royal Wootton Bassett; Nebo Farm, Clyffe was a refind by the recorder on a blue brick rail Pypard; Calne; (SU07), all MBu. bridge from 1984, both DG. Alopecurus myosuroides (Black-grass); Asplenium ceterach (Rustyback); Aldbourne Froxfield, (SU36), RAi; Shire Hill; Down Farm, Village (SU27), two records both RAi. Tormarton, (ST77), DG. Asplenium trichomanes (Maidenhair Amaranthus retroflexus (Common Spleenwort); Aldbourne Village (SU27), RAi. Amaranth); Roves Farm, Sevenhampton Asplenium trichomanes ssp. quadrivalens (SU28), two plants on track, RAi. (Maidenhair Spleenwort); Highway Hill (SU07), Anacamptis pyramidalis (Pyramidal Orchid); DMo & TS. Blunsdon, (SU19), on land south of High Aster x salignus (Common Michaelmas Street, PK. Daisy); Lower Foxhanger (ST96), DG. Anemone x hybrida (Japanese Anemone); Atriplex prostrata (Spear-leaved Orache); Box Bridge, Kingsdown (ST86); on dumped Aldbourne Village (SU27), RAi; Shire Hill soil in derelict marshalling yard, DG. (ST77), DG. Anemanthele lessoniana (New Zealand Aubrieta deltoidea (Aubrietia); Tockenham Wind-grass); Beanacre (ST96); four plants at (SU07); Calne (ST97), both MBu. kerbside, DG. Avena fatua (Wild-oat); Down Farm near Angelica archangelica (Garden Angelica); Tormarton (ST77), DG. West of Melksham (ST86); a single plant on streamside bank by road, DG. Azolla filiculoides (Water-fern); In River Avon, Chippenham (ST97), DG; also in River Anthriscus caucalis (Bur Chervil); Bradford- Avon, Chippenham Centre (ST97) where on-Avon (ST86); a single plant spontaneously frequent, HCr & DG; Calne (ST97), 50m2 in appeared in recorder’s garden, DG. closed-up section of Wilts & Berks Canal, Antirrhinum majus (Snapdragon); Cricklade MBu. (SU19); WBS. Ballota nigra (Black Horehound); Acorn Aphanes arvensis (Parsley-piert); Calne Bridge, Bourton (SU28), RAi. (SU07), MBu; Chippenham (ST97), DG; Berula erecta (Lesser Water-parsnip); Kington Langley (ST97), SPi, MBu & JWs; Thingley Bridge (ST86); Cocklemore Brook, Langley Burrell (ST97), SFi & PMW; Lackham (ST97), both DG. Hullavington Airfield (ST98), SPi; Froxfield (SU36), RAi; Rodbourne Bottom (ST98), RAi; Brassica napus (Rape); Swindon (SU18), Kington St. Michael (ST97), MBu & DG. kerbs and pavement edges, RAi. Brassica napus ssp. oleifera (Oil-seed Campanula trachelium (Nettle-leaved Rape); Hullavington Airfield (ST98), crop relict, Bellflower); Wootton Rivers (SU16), JBr; Broad SPi; Monkton Field east (SU07), ARb. Blunsdon (SU19), RAi. Brassica nigra (Black Mustard); Calne Carduus crispus (Welted Thistle); Colerne (SU07), MBu. Airfield (ST77), LMo & HD; Shire Hill (ST77), DG. Brassica rapa (Turnip); Corsham (ST87), DG; Somerford Keynes lakes (SU09), MBu & DG. Carduus crispus ssp. multiflorus (Welted Thistle); RAF Fairford (SU19), TCGR. Brassica rapa ssp. campestris (Wild Turnip); Chippenham central (ST97), native alongside Carduus nutans (Musk Thistle); Fox Covert Avonside, HCr & DG. Of interest is that several (ST99), MBu; Shire Hill, (ST77), DG. records exist from other parts of the Avon Carex acutiformis (Lesser Pond-sedge); catchment as well. Dundas Viaduct (ST96), DG. Bromus racemosus (Smooth Brome); Down Carex demissa (Common Yellow-sedge); Farm near Tormarton (ST77), DG. Staverton (ST86), DG. Bromus secalinus (Rye Brome) [GB:VU Carex disticha (Brown Sedge); Stitchcombe Eng:NT]; Vastern Wood, Royal Wootton (SU26), abundant in wet area of meadow, RAi. Bassett (SU043811), a small patch in an ‘abandoned’ arable field, MBu. Carex divulsa (Grey Sedge); Rodbourne Bottom (ST98), DG. Brunnera macrophylla (Great Forget-me- not); Ramsbury Village (SU27), RAi & U3AK; Carex divulsa ssp. divulsa (Grey Sedge); Kingsdown near Bath (ST86), HCr & DG; Pewsham (ST97); Sutton Benger (ST97), both Winsley west (ST76); Corsham Lake (ST87), MBu. both DG. Carex otrubae (False Fox-sedge); By-Brook, Buddleja davidii (Butterfly-bush); Colerne Bathford (ST76), DG. Airfield (ST77), LMo & HD; Shire Hill (ST77), Carex spicata (Spiked Sedge); Cake Wood, DG. Froxfield (SU36); Brickkiln Copse, Chilton Calendula officinalis (Pot-marigold); Foliat (SU36), both RAi; Winsley west (ST76), Yatesbury (SU07), MBu; Staverton (ST86), DG. DG. Carex strigosa (Thin-spiked Wood-sedge); Callitriche obtusangula (Blunt-fruited Water- Kemble Wood (ST99), MBu. starwort); Roves Farm, Sevenhampton Catabrosa aquatica (Whorl-grass) [GB:LC (SU28), RAi. Eng:VU]; Staverton (ST8530461072), about 10 Calystegia pulchra (Hairy Bindweed); flowering plants in a recently cleared 5m Chiseldon (SU17), RAi & U3AK; Sutton length of ditch adjacent a culvert of the B3105, Benger (ST97); Ivy House Lakes near Royal DG. “Possibly to be the only extant occurrence Wootton Bassett (SU08), both MBu. in the VC”- Sharon Pilkington. Calystegia silvatica (Large Bindweed); Shire The only previous records for this species in Hill (ST77), DG. VC7 are 2006 and before that 1993 - ed. Campanula persicifolia (Peach-leaved Catapodium rigidum (Fern-grass); Dundas Bellflower); Royal Wootton Bassett (SU08), Aqueduct (ST76); Kingston St. Michael MBu. (ST97); Chippenham (ST97), and Littleton Drew west (ST88), all DG; Chippenham Campanula portenschlagiana (Adria central (ST97), HCr & DG; Yatesbury (SU07), Bellflower); Devizes (ST96), MBu; and Sutton Benger (ST97), both MBu. Chippenham (ST97), DG; Aldbourne Village (SU27), RAi. Centaurea scabiosa (Greater Knapweed); RAF Fairford (SU19), TCGR; Swanborough Campanula poscharskyana (Trailing (SU19), RAi. Bellflower); Alderton (ST88), DG. Centranthus ruber (Red Valerian); Aldbourne SPi; Chippenham central (ST97), HCr & DG; Village (SU27), RAi; Ramsbury Village (SU27), Chippenham NE (ST97), industrial site, DG. RAi & U3AK. Conyza sumatrensis (Guernsey Fleabane); Cerastium glomeratum (Sticky Mouse-ear); Chippenham central (ST97), HCr & DG; A4 Froxfield (SU36), on roadside verge, RAi. Chippenham (ST97), DG; Melksham east (ST96), DG. Cerastium semidecandrum (Little Mouse- ear); Milk Hill, Pewsey Downs NNR (SU16), Cornus sanguinea ssp. sanguinea two patches on grassy anthill. “Many anthills (Dogwood); Highway Hill (SU0474), DMo & searched!”, RAi. TS. 1st Wiltshire record. Ceratochloa carinata (California Brome); Cotoneaster horizontalis (Wall Cotoneaster); Ditteridge (ST86), in derelict arable, DG. Brickkiln Copse, Chilton Foliat (SU36); A4 Froxfield (SU36), both RAi. Ceratophyllum demersum (Rigid Hornwort); Cocklemore Brook near Lackham (ST97); Cotoneaster integrifolius (Entire-leaved Lackham House (ST97), both DG. Cotoneaster); Chippenham central (ST97), HCr & DG. Cerinthe major (Greater Honeywort); Bradford-on-Avon (ST8265461824),