Little Mouse-ear,
Clust-y-llygoden fach
or
Cerastium semidecandrum
It's an annual that likes exposed habitats and obviously likes this rough slope at the edge of an access road to the farther part of the car park. How it got to Hay originally (and when) are unknown but Ray Woods found it last year. It really is very little and no doubt a few people were puzzled as to what I could be photographing.
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So five of us parked on a common near the Wye and walked to a wood on the Wye bank (with landowner permission). The Wye Valley walk passes along the Wye there so we took it north up to the first encounter with a public road and then looped back to the cars. It made a great walk in lovely weather and we recorded 130 different species despite it being too early for many to be visible and others being too small for any of us to be sure what they were...
Right by the cars were several clumps of this:
Italian Lords-and-Ladies,
Pidyn-y-gog Eidalaidd
or
Arum italicum
Not native around here at all but happily established now.
Great to see:
Primrose,
Briallen
or
Primula vulgaris
Dog's Mercury,
Bresychen y cŵn
or
Mercurialis perennis
But we got to the wood eventually:
Among the many delights:
Marsh-marigold,
Gold y gors
or
Caltha palustris
An old Oak in a field on the way back:
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