We started by making for the sites of some interesting old records on the slopes above the river. The going was difficult due to the Bracken but we explored some good stone outcrops with interesting finds.
Joan spotted this, a very easily overlooked little plant, and it turns out the species hasn't been recorded in the whole of Brecknockshire very often at all and only twice in this hectad in the 1980s and 90s (according to the records I have access to).
Bird's-foot
Troed yr aderyn
Ornithopus perpusillus
Then as we tried to get to higher ground we discovered two good populations of Beech Fern:
Beech Fern,
Rhedynen gorniog or
Phegopteris connectilis
... which was comforting as the Bracken beat us and we had to make our way down again, via a good population of Ivy-leaved Bellflower on a grassy outcrop near a stream:
Ivy-leaved Bellflower,
Clychlys dail eiddew or
Wahlenbergia hederacea
Even Climbing Corydalis has not been recorded often in this hectad and in the area only three times before.
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