Reservoirs Springs and Quarries

I've had a break but meanwhile members of the botany group had continued to record many plants including this:

Ivy-leaved Bellflower, Clychlys dail eiddew or Wahlenbergia hederacea

-recorded by Sue west of Upper Chapel.

Then on our way to the Elan Valley we noticed this at our meeting point in Llyswen:

White Bryony, Bloneg y ddaear or Bryonia dioica 

-which isn't that common in our county.

Up by the main dam (in our territory) we were wading through acres of common Ling with rather abundant:

Bell Heather, Grug y mêl or Erica cinerea

- in most of our county we feel privileged to find the odd plant...

We made a lot of good records but didn't find the rarity we were crossing our fingers for...

There was plenty of:

Small Cudweed, Edafeddog fach or Filago minima 

- on the dry trackways.

And abundant:

Oak Fern, Rhedynen dridarn or Gymnocarpium dryopteris 

- in the shadier parts and woodland.

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Then we went to Cadair Fawr on the road from Brecon towards Penderyn to explore old limestone quarries where the Fairy Flax was very abundant but not photographed by me.

I did examine these Hieraciums which will take a little more identification effort on a return visit (we have to go back for the Euphrasias which were too young to be sure about.)

From there we went across the moorland, picking up other records for this little explored (botanically) area. Below the peak the limestone changes to sandstone and springs appear. Here we found many of the expected wet gound plants - a reduction of the grazing pressure could make it more I suspect.

Pictures from Sue:

 Brooklime, Llysiau Taliesin or Veronica beccabunga

Bog Pimpernel, Gwlyddyn-Mair y gors or Anagallis tenella

One of the springs:

And I finish with this from the A470 near Brecon - spotted by Joan (when she stopped to look).

Grass Vetchling, Ytbysen feinddail or Lathyrus nissolia