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SOMERSET RARE PLANTS GROUP 2011 Newsletter Issue No.12 Editor: Caroline Giddens December 2011 SOMERSET RARE PLANTS GROUP www.somersetrareplantsgroup.org.uk 2011 Newsletter Issue No.12 Editor: Caroline Giddens December 2011 REPORTS OF MEETINGS, 2011. The AGM and Members’ Meeting Conifer Workshop Saturday 15th January 2011 Saturday 12th February 2011 Sixteen members attended the Annual This indoor meeting was held at Shapwick Members’ Meeting and AGM at the Lifelong Lifelong Learning Centre where Clare and Learning Centre at Shapwick on Saturday 15th Mark Kitchen presented a day of conifer January 2011. Steve Parker welcomed taxonomy, mainly demonstrating the use of everyone present and said the Group had John Poland’s Vegetative key. Material from enjoyed a good year with thanks due to all a wide range of species was available but the who had led the various excursions and emphasis was on identifying those that are meetings which were reported in the commonly planted and found naturalised in Newsletter now being distributed. We were the wild. Help was given with pleased to welcome Emma Koblizek from understanding the botanical terms used in the SERC and she was asked to convey our key. The features used in the key are, as thanks to the Record Centre for their help expected, vegetative but it is useful to use with funding for a further supply of cone features for confirmation of Recording Cards, ten hand lenses and the identification so these were also available. In promise of a grapnel for help with the study addition to the species used for identification, of water plants. She also offered to look into material was available from similar species the possibility of MapMate training sessions for comparison. It is hoped the attendees if members required these. We were also finished the day more confident in their pleased to welcome a young student from identification of common species. France who was here to gather information on Clare and Mark Kitchen Groups studying wildlife on the Somerset Wetlands. Helena Crouch said a few words Members’ Photos and Talks on some of the interesting plant species which Saturday 19th March 2011 had been found during 2010. Steve spoke on Twelve members met at the Lifelong the project involved with the reintroduction of Learning Centre for an informal morning of Sium and also gave details of the hoped for talks about botanical projects and work that establishment of a recording group for the they have been involved with. Helena Crouch Avalon Marshes. Anne Cole gave a financial gave a beautifully illustrated talk about report and distributed a balance sheet which exciting botanical finds that members have showed a balance of £1,126.79 in hand on made in our Somerset recording area in the 14th December 2010. Total income for 2010 last year. Notable amongst these were three was £488 and total expenditure £108.44. We species new to Somerset – Membranous now have 60 members. Liz McDonnell said Nettle (Urtica membranacea) found in the that for various reasons it had been proposed centre of Nailsea, Small Goosegrass (Galium that we should have a new Logo and members murale) found as a pavement weed of the were asked to submit designs for this. Royal Crescent in Bath and Tender Brake Christine Loudon spoke about developments (Pteris tremula), also from the Royal on the Group’s website. Crescent, Bath. Amongst other species, The ‘bring and share’ lunch was enjoyed Helena showed photos of Field Fleawort next, followed by the raffle with prizes (Tephroseris integrifolia) one of Somerset’s donated by those present and finally a rarest plants. A tiny population of only two fiendishly difficult quiz devised by Steve with plants is found in just one site in Kilmington, VC6 competing against VC5. The latter won which is VC6, but in administrative Wiltshire. by a nose. 1 Chris Billinghurst gave a presentation on aerial leaves of the mature summer plants. the botanical work undertaken in 2009 with The boardwalk, constructed a few years ago members of the SRPG and Somerset Botany from recycled black plastic was well used and Group. They surveyed the fields, ditches and taking on an organic undulating shape of its rhynes of Godney Farm as part of the SWT own. It looked rather Japanese as it snaked Brue Valley habitat survey. This is a working through the winter reeds. dairy farm owned and run by Mr & Mrs Liz McDonnell Churches. Although, as would be expected from a large dairy farm, most of the fields had Hutton Wood little botanical interest, the ditches and rhynes Saturday 16th April 2011 had been managed very sympathetically and On a fine day, sixteen members and guests many were rich in botanical species. Five met at Bleadon Hill for the first walk of the ditches adjacent to the River Sheppy in the season. Our challenge for the day was to find north-east of the farm contained Rootless Purple Gromwell (Lithospermum Duckweed (Wolffia arrhiza), a JNCC purpureocaeruleum) in three 1km squares, vulnerable species; and one of Helena’s which involved walking through six 1km photographs showed Wolffia reproducing by squares! Setting off along the lane to Upper budding. Another vulnerable species, Marsh Canada, we found several Twayblades Stitchwort (Stellaria palustris), was found in (Neottia ovata) on shady banks. A field two sites close to ditches in the south-west of carpeted with Daisies was a stunning sight. the farm. On the track to the wood, a single plant of Steve gave a talk on the "Conservation of Cut-leaved Dead-nettle (Lamium hybridum) Water Parsnip in Somerset". This BAP plant was discovered. This species has been has declined over the past ten years in the infrequently recorded recently, so it was an county. The talk included information on the excellent record and we were able to compare distribution, conservation and ecology of the it with Red Dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) plant. The SRPG have been involved with nearby. monitoring the plant for 10 years. Steve gave A prominent patch of Lithospermum some information on the ongoing purpureocaeruleum was admired at the reintroduction programme in the Brue valley. entrance to the wood. Beside the woodland The need for ongoing conservation was path, more Twayblades were seen, together highlighted by details of the very recent with seven Greater Butterfly-orchids damage to a large population at a site near (Platanthera chlorantha). Sadly we failed to Westonzolyand, This was caused by find Lithospermum purpureocaeruleum at a unsympathetic management of ditches. former site on the south side of the wood, but Christine Loudon told us about her all appreciated the picturesque Bluebells, continuing to work on the development of the Wood Spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides) and SRPG website. She has done a great deal of other woodland flowers. work on the new design; examples of the Most of the party adventurously descended improved layout were shown to the members. the steep north side of the hill to search for The web pages are an important way of Lithospermum purpureocaeruleum at another presenting the work of the SRPG to the known site. Beside the path we were general public and members. Christine was distracted by a very strange aberrant Bluebell keen to ensure the pages presented a friendly (Hyacinthoides non-scripta forma bracteata), image of the SRPG. which has floral bracts up to 10cm long. A After lunch we took advantage of the good number of scattered shoots of warm sunny weather and walked along the Lithospermum purpureocaeruleum were Discovery Trail boardwalk at the western end found on the rocky wooded hillside, the site of Shapwick Heath, where Greater Water- spanning the boundary of two 1km squares, parsnip was introduced in May 2009. Steve so the re-ascent of the hillside was all showed us two plants, one of which was a worthwhile and we had completed our small plant completely free and floating, the challenge. other, apparently well rooted, which had very Returning along the lane to Bleadon Hill, dissected underwater leaves, very unlike the we nobly recorded in a fourth 1km square, 2 inspired by the fact that the only record on history and wildlife interest. The reserve MapMate for this square was a Petunia! We comprises a rich and varied mixture of recorded 94 species: no Petunias, but we (mainly somewhat calcareous) grassland, finished with a splendid plant of White scrub and woodland. Our total count of 217 Comfrey (Symphytum orientale) in the car taxa – not all flowering, of course – could park. have left the beginners in the group Helena Crouch wondering what had hit them. Highlights of the day, other than the excellent company, The Quants / Buckland Wood included some fine specimens of ‘false oxlip’ Saturday 7th May 2011 (Primula vulgaris x veris); two rather grand This was a joint field meeting with the Wild Service-trees (Sorbus torminalis); an Somerset Archaeological and Natural History area of more acidic grassland supporting Pale Society. There was a good turn-out, with Sedge (Carex pallescens) and Hairy Lady’s- around 15 people joining in for at least part of mantle (Alchemilla filicaulis subsp. vestita), the day. (There were too many to attempt an plus areas of short turf with flowering Flea exact count.) It was a rather mixed day Sedge (Carex pulicaris); and in woodland weather-wise, with warm sunshine and an about half a dozen scattered plants of Broad- occasional sharp shower. The visit had been leaved Helleborine (Epipactis helleborine). billed as an opportunity to do some general Under Keith Gould’s guidance, a patch of botanical recording in the Butterfly wet woodland was searched for Marsh Conservation nature reserve (also an SSSI), Helleborine (Epipactis palustris). We located and a chance for beginners to see a good some wooden stakes that evidently ‘marked range of ‘spring flowers’.
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