tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73628422024-02-20T01:30:56.668+00:00FloralImages BreconJohn Crellin's blog. Now mainly about botanical recording in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecknockshire">Brecknock</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-15641397666553904442023-10-14T13:38:00.000+01:002023-10-14T13:38:03.013+01:00Small-flowered Catchfly<p> Not recorded since 1950 but seen last week by Ray Woods at the edges of a Swede field.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/s/silene_gallica_1cb69.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/s/silene_gallica_1cb69.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Small-flowered Catchfly, Gludlys amryliw, <i>Silene gallica</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So the history in the county goes: “Pen y lan, near Brecon” by Miss Bird in 1809, J A Wade (NMW), no date given but between 1930 and 1950 and now this. The species is in decline in the country - as an arable weed but thisfinding suggests there may be a long-lived seed bank.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-42547354982354307242023-10-01T14:41:00.007+01:002023-10-01T15:49:24.963+01:00The Molinia Horribleness scale<p> No exciting finds this week for the group (but a member, Anne found a Musk Thistle on the Usk):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/c/carduus_nutans_1c922.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="506" height="640" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/c/carduus_nutans_1c922.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Carduus nutans</i>, Musk Thistle</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The main group outing though always looked like a rather dim hope of great finds but at least we got some records for an unrecorded tetrad.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The outward walk was very hard going in boggy tussocky <i>Molinia caerulea</i>, Purple Moor-grass which I decided was at least an 8 on the Molinia horribleness scale* which I had just thought up.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And no rewards of any note for peering into the boggier bits with only a few records on the whole outward journey. We got far enough to see more promising land a further kilometre away but decided we had to turn back. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We did agree to do a different route which we thought, from our observations coming along, might not be so bad - and it wasn't (7 maybe). Crucially though we did on that route find some "better" plants. (Apologies to Soft-rush, Foxglove and Heath Bedstraw - we do appreciate you really!)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/moorland_vegetation_157d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/moorland_vegetation_157d.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, helv, sans-serif, Geneva, SunSans-Regular" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: grey; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start;">Marsh Pennywort and Lady's Smock among other rather "better" finds.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, helv, sans-serif, Geneva, SunSans-Regular" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: grey; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/waun_llywarch_1580.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/waun_llywarch_1580.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The view from as far as we got.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/waun_llywarch_1583.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/waun_llywarch_1583.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">* It goes up to 11...</div><br /><span face="verdana, arial, helvetica, helv, sans-serif, Geneva, SunSans-Regular" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: grey; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-45320467937825029122023-09-17T11:37:00.003+01:002023-09-17T11:37:45.346+01:00Quillwort at Llyn Carw<p> <a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/llyn_carw_157b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/llyn_carw_157b.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;">Llyn Carw - about 6 km trek across difficult moorland from Dolymynach.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The <a href="https://www.cambrian-mountains.co.uk/">Cambrian Mountain Society</a> teamed up their walking expertise with botanists last week on this walk to our most remote lake. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Quillwort was found there in 1979 by Ray Woods and determined to be the rather more rare Spring Quillwort, <i>Isoetes echinspora</i> by S G Harrison at the National Museum of Wales. (He was a co-author of the book that describes them for Wales.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>It was at that time “Common on north and west margins”.</div><div><br /></div><div>Gill Foulkes, a botanist member of the recent expedition, did find a Quillwort on the other side of the lake. (None was found where the original sample was taken.)</div><div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here it is:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/i/isoetes_lacustris_1c60e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/i/isoetes_lacustris_1c60e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Quillwort found by Gill Foulkes last week, which turned out to be <i>Isoetes lacustris</i></div><div><br /></div>You have to sacrifice a leaf to prove it's a Quillwort:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/i/isoetes_lacustris_1c60d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/i/isoetes_lacustris_1c60d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>And knowing which one needs these megaspores to be examined:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/i/isoetes_lacustris_1c630.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/i/isoetes_lacustris_1c630.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>They are about 0.5 mm across...<div><br /></div><div>So maybe the lake does actually still have both of these Quillwort species (the north and west has the more suitable habitat for Spring Quillwort).</div><div><br /></div><div>Further expeditions are required!</div><div><br /></div><div>And the members of this walk did prove that botany and long walks can be compatible - with a good recce prior to the day...<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-24932128504438700602023-09-01T13:37:00.000+01:002023-09-01T13:37:26.019+01:00An exciting find and other matters<p> A record popped up on iRecord last week that is a great new find for the Vice County.</p><p>We already have the most southerly occurrence of <i>Circaea alpina</i> (Alpine Enchanter's Nightshade) in the British Isles I think but our one small (and somewhat struggling) population at Craig y Cilau is now joined by a substantial and healthy population found by Sam Thomas while visiting the (also very rare) population of <i>Sorbus stenophylla</i> near Capel y Ffin in the Llanthony valley.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/c/circaea_alpina_1c3fb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/c/circaea_alpina_1c3fb.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;">Circaea alpina</i><span style="text-align: left;"> (Alpine Enchanter's Nightshade) picture, Sam Thomas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Sam said "</span><span style="text-align: left;">The rain was torrential and we started from the top which was an unwise choice, once we'd seen the <i>Sorbus </i>we decided to cut straight down the cliff to escape the rain as quickly as possible. We found the <i>Circaea </i>on the way down. It was in a very inaccessible location so not that surprising that it hadn't been found before."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">There are </span><span style="text-align: left;">a good number of plants on at least two levels of a small, mossy flushed cliff . The Brecknock Botany Group will be visiting next year in early July to collect a herbarium specimen and see it for themselves (those up to the intrepid climb...)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/c/circaea_alpina_1c3f6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/c/circaea_alpina_1c3f6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another picture by Jacques Turner-Moss </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In other - less exciting news, the group have been filling in some upland under-recorded tetrads - sometimes with surprising finds - and certainly with many extra map dots for axiophytes of the county.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We have noticed that this year's weather has really suited <i>Hypericum humifusum</i> with many more records than usual of much larger and well-spreading plants than we usually see.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/h/hypericum_humifusum_155c6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/h/hypericum_humifusum_155c6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-style: italic;">Hypericum humifusum</i>, Trailing St John's-wort above the Irfon river</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-31585726761552153672023-05-12T09:14:00.004+01:002023-10-11T13:18:52.245+01:00 Yet another round up<p>A first for many of us last Wednesday when eagle-eyed Arlene spotted Adder's Tongue (a fern) in lightly grazed turf near Talgarth. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/o/ophioglossum_vulgatum_14843.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/o/ophioglossum_vulgatum_14843.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Two well-matured fronds fronds of <i>Ophioglossum vulgatum</i>, Adder's Tongue, from Wednesday. Only a few had well-developed fruiting bodies as here. The first population spotted was much less noticeable than this.</div><p>It isn't often recorded these days in the county and was a new find for most of the group. (As for myself, I have seen it before and even spotted it in the past on more sparsely vegetated sites but I would not have picked these ones out from the abundant Celandine leaves among the grass I am sure.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/o/ophioglossum_vulgatum_14840.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="506" height="675" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/o/ophioglossum_vulgatum_14840.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Claire took this picture of Changing forget-me-not which we found on the same excursion:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/m/myosotis_discolor_14845.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="600" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/m/myosotis_discolor_14845.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><i>Myosotis discolor subsp. dubia</i>, Changing Forget-me-not, this is the subspecies we see more often which starts with white flowers turning to blue.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>The week before it was good to be reminded that Navelwort doesn't only grow on walls. This was north of Brecon.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/u/umbilicus_rupestris_14600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="600" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/u/umbilicus_rupestris_14600.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Umbilicus rupestris</i>, Navelwort near Llandefaelog fach.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And a reminder that our Adoxa hunt is on again this year. This picture from Stephen. <a href="https://vc42.floralimages.co.uk/targetmonads.htm" target="_blank">See details of the Adoxa hunt here</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/a/adoxa_moschatellina_14428.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="600" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/a/adoxa_moschatellina_14428.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Adoxa moschatellina</i>, Moschatel</div></i><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There are many other hunt challenges - see <a href="https://vc42.floralimages.co.uk/hunt2.htm">here</a> and <a href="https://vc42.floralimages.co.uk/hunt5.htm">here</a>.</div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-46045468057540414542022-09-08T18:12:00.001+01:002023-09-20T11:24:51.435+01:00Chasing Wild Geese<p> It was a little late in the season to catch Llyn y Fan Fawr with a low water level but, spurred on by the news that its Carmarthenshire counterpart (Llyn y Fan Fach) had revealed some exciting finds when its level dropped dramatically this year, we decided to try.</p><p>At least the weather was reasonably kind to us and we found Quillwort or<i> Isoetes lacustris</i> which hasn't been recorded there since 1972. </p><p>Luck played a part but also having shore bound colleagues pointing out where to go helped a lot (they could see better than I could from above). I didn't even need to get my feet wet (just) as I waded in my Wellingtons beyond where the common Shoreweed grew.</p><p>The only picture I have is from my microscope showing the characteristic division of the leaf cross section into four compartments so here is a drawing from an old book:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmVOedmSwMg7tEHPOubBwlNrOcoxsp1jcwpDnxQ6NX5X06N1cTWuAl7_hM47BBeHHhFlqqhbEfrVzX0Rs-I-EN9B8hN1TMjyfXalynho5ApjvVXE4O7xTnJPAZiUOhbTn5WzY8Des_H4YUWcFs-Srbp7L4zx8e3-yz9108PEOrHDZKG6wAqw/s863/i%20lac%20pic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="565" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmVOedmSwMg7tEHPOubBwlNrOcoxsp1jcwpDnxQ6NX5X06N1cTWuAl7_hM47BBeHHhFlqqhbEfrVzX0Rs-I-EN9B8hN1TMjyfXalynho5ApjvVXE4O7xTnJPAZiUOhbTn5WzY8Des_H4YUWcFs-Srbp7L4zx8e3-yz9108PEOrHDZKG6wAqw/w421-h640/i%20lac%20pic.jpg" width="421" /></a></div>And my cross-sections:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/i/isoetes_lacustris_11084.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/i/isoetes_lacustris_11084.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I didn't photograph the lake but the upper reaches of the Tawe, which we followed from it's source on the way back made for some nice snaps.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/afon_tawe_14ef.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/afon_tawe_14ef.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/afon_tawe_14ee.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/afon_tawe_14ee.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-87837377212383382832022-06-25T17:39:00.000+01:002022-06-25T17:39:11.907+01:00Half a year gone<p> And we have been active.</p><p>Members of the botany group were invited to update our records for Townhall Clock - <i>Adoxa moschatellina</i> from early March.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/a/adoxa_moschatellina_28af.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="452" height="675" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/a/adoxa_moschatellina_28af.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-style: italic;">Adoxa moschatellina</i> at Pwll y Wrach Nature Reserve, Talgarth</div><p>Results are pretty much now in (it is hard to spot and record from now on and often completely died back).</p><p>It was refound in 21 of the target monads (1km squares) with Gaye and Lynne finding the longest "lost" population near Crickhowell (last seen 1957). (All the updates were for squares where it had not been seen since 1999.)</p><p>There were records from 34 squares where the species had never before been recorded. Other records stretched from near Craig y nos (the species peters out to the south west there) to Cilmery near Builth Wells.</p><p>Click <a href="https://vc42.floralimages.co.uk/targetmonadresults.htm">here </a>for the full results.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-36910261087114859812021-12-21T16:02:00.004+00:002021-12-21T16:05:36.326+00:00A welcome find<p>In October I received a report from Julie of Stag's-horn Clubmoss on Llangoed common. Several members of the recording group got there to check this out before I did and my group was initially dumbfounded to discover that we couldn't find it despite having good grid references. So after a while we decided to give up at one of the couple of locations reported and set off for another only for Claire, who was leading, to call back that she had found it not 100m from where we had given up. Either the satellites were wonky that day or on the day of the earlier reports and we had been focussing too much on exact grid refs and managing to miss the populations while toing and froing!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/l/lycopodium_clavatum_f77f.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/l/lycopodium_clavatum_f77f.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Stag's-horn Clubmoss, Cnwp-fwsogl corn carw
or
<i>Lycopodium clavatum</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">at Llangoed common</span></div><p>Never mind - once found and with our "eye's in" we established that the population was very large - certainly a more established and abundant population than had been found in such a habitat in this county for many years.</p><p>The common itself is a delight and very carefully managed - the Bracken control (which was active at the time of discovery) being very effective at creating conditions for the Clubmoss to thrive.</p><p>And on the opposite bank of the stream the grassland was home to many wonderful Waxcaps - it's a well we had Ray with us to name them all.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/h/hygrocybe_coccinea_f785.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="506" height="640" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/h/hygrocybe_coccinea_f785.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Scarlet waxcap
or
<i>Hygrocybe coccinea</i>
at
Llangoed common</div><p><br /></p><p>Steph, who visited later on, found native White-clawed crayfish in the stream - adding to the good habitat rating for the area.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/l/lycopodium_clavatum_f782.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/l/lycopodium_clavatum_f782.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This picture alludes to our initial confusion!</div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-4924160002415653862021-11-13T10:11:00.004+00:002021-11-13T10:12:30.314+00:00Botany 2021 - part 2<p>The group have been very active in the latter part of the year, in many cases without my active participation.</p><p>On 25th June, we visited the <i>Carex limosa</i> site on the Vice County border previously discovered by Barry Stewart in 2001. This is at least 50km as the crow flies from the nearest other known sites near Swansea.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/c/carex_limosa_ea19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="506" height="675" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/c/carex_limosa_ea19.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Bog-sedge or
Hesgen eurwerdd,
<i>Carex limosa</i>
on a
Peat bog on Llangattock Mountain</span></div><p>Needless the say the whole area was interesting and we also saw Cranberry in some profusion.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/v/vaccinium_oxycoccos_ea1c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="506" height="675" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/v/vaccinium_oxycoccos_ea1c.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Cranberry or
Llygaeren,
<i>Vaccinium oxycoccos</i> in a flush near the Carex</span></div><p>The beginning of July saw a group of us undertake a couple of days botanising in the remote north-west of the county, staying at the hostel at Dolgoch. It was a very wet weekend but we were delighted to encounter a field high up under Craig Carreg-fan with abundant Viola lutea.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/v/viola_lutea_eb7f.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/v/viola_lutea_eb7f.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mountain Pansy or
Trilliw y mynydd,
<i>Viola lutea</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">We climbed up higher and this view back just shows (centre lowdown) the zigzag path through bracken by which we approached the rocks above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/botanist_path_136c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/botanist_path_136c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The group excursion outside the county this year took us to Cors Fochno just inland at Borth to see the Irish Ladies Tresses that now have settled there. It was agreat day and we enjoyed the other bog plants as well.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/s/spiranthes_romanzoffiana_f034.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="506" height="675" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/s/spiranthes_romanzoffiana_f034.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Irish Lady's-tresses or
Troellig Wyddelig,
<i>Spiranthes romanzoffiana</i>
at
Cors Fochno</div><p style="text-align: center;">A few other highlights:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Pi-R1bzM9Ftieu5ppVfChjEzaC_nkEmRbGtJ6ajNs_OsqWe16wthZUWtMm_ofG6j7GiIPjCKZTXEg_kAZtlPMRcE-X61QkHwHVsjigDSqlsk9U1gQvRuOCrjZ_3t2pIpF03Q/s1280/Epynt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1221" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Pi-R1bzM9Ftieu5ppVfChjEzaC_nkEmRbGtJ6ajNs_OsqWe16wthZUWtMm_ofG6j7GiIPjCKZTXEg_kAZtlPMRcE-X61QkHwHVsjigDSqlsk9U1gQvRuOCrjZ_3t2pIpF03Q/w610-h640/Epynt.jpg" width="610" /></a>Lunch time at the edge of the Epynt</p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzaLrUNbZIyOuZCVTNxxSCt6a2Kz3WR-cuLjeN38VV7uIKyjV_d2YgEclhO3PyUHeq6-IwRcSah953yz0kCv3JOkLHmfmctkjBTPvNp3fTDDUvn3Avoy2aLkFMqKpoLoqG8lat/s997/Erigeron+acris+aug28+anne.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="997" height="565" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzaLrUNbZIyOuZCVTNxxSCt6a2Kz3WR-cuLjeN38VV7uIKyjV_d2YgEclhO3PyUHeq6-IwRcSah953yz0kCv3JOkLHmfmctkjBTPvNp3fTDDUvn3Avoy2aLkFMqKpoLoqG8lat/w640-h565/Erigeron+acris+aug28+anne.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Blue Fleabane or
Amrhydlwyd glas,
<i>Erigeron acris
(Erigeron acer)</i>
on
Gilwern Hill </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Picture Anne Griffiths)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGUf1agmdft1TZUGyEBj0jjn5STb31BP2vguItkECs0B9Hj1CAF8BM4T3MpoAjNZ61rM2p3IIEK7BayRLKTQ1XDIU47Yng-14T_ahQeO-gzEzptTZa0ftbS15CK2lCKba93Fys/s1280/Y+Birdsnest+anne+aug.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGUf1agmdft1TZUGyEBj0jjn5STb31BP2vguItkECs0B9Hj1CAF8BM4T3MpoAjNZ61rM2p3IIEK7BayRLKTQ1XDIU47Yng-14T_ahQeO-gzEzptTZa0ftbS15CK2lCKba93Fys/w480-h640/Y+Birdsnest+anne+aug.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yellow Bird's-nest or
Cytwf,
<i>Hypopitys monotropa
(Monotropa hypopitys)</i> at Cwm Clydach</div><span style="text-align: center;"><div>(Picture Anne Griffiths)</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-22475560520452174092021-06-19T10:10:00.000+01:002021-06-19T10:10:25.542+01:00Botany 2021 in Brecknock<p>The Botany Group has not been entirely inactive with a lot of individual work proceeding from early on (within guidelines) and more recently we have done some group surveys.</p><p>Here are a few highlights so far.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzHxlxAka-SOP5Ip15LklaK1ibBEcwLNPl05BiQk8zPrgNRq8clce3Ym48WQS8SLBK9g9MGyI7ycQXm5TVqrFzvqQPS3EdQxF2Bn-pUZdatxFlflPU0k_ZPasYNG49QdsWLwls/s2048/Pencelli+canal+with+primroses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzHxlxAka-SOP5Ip15LklaK1ibBEcwLNPl05BiQk8zPrgNRq8clce3Ym48WQS8SLBK9g9MGyI7ycQXm5TVqrFzvqQPS3EdQxF2Bn-pUZdatxFlflPU0k_ZPasYNG49QdsWLwls/w640-h480/Pencelli+canal+with+primroses.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Primroses on the canal</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo0si3lwnv6kxrNwzW8QiipQr2dG2-4lBdY-HOGzGglYIMtJ0_vvdxZKntVZJx0ufRicVPaFgzkw1O-8qnwoF-rn32pozmF4VUbMlrOVDtR8dmmVlCRqvjzdmyZfEoaHKkLzHu/s2048/Errophila+verna+Brecon+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo0si3lwnv6kxrNwzW8QiipQr2dG2-4lBdY-HOGzGglYIMtJ0_vvdxZKntVZJx0ufRicVPaFgzkw1O-8qnwoF-rn32pozmF4VUbMlrOVDtR8dmmVlCRqvjzdmyZfEoaHKkLzHu/w640-h426/Errophila+verna+Brecon+2.jpg" width="640" /></a>Common Whitlowgrass, Llysiau’r-bystwn ar or <i>Erophila verna</i> was abundant around Brecon and Hay</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUgIkb4aapkcd-z2MbaJc4LT6oji-_yqvPWn8lIIqC2WtyYV10-0DQtOxB1Wk5BDPPIw14UwRWigezZ2qidInXt5VSCtqG8oCRh-7GT4zdituwiRkRk4dkCy0OedaIQWHvhMB/s2048/Dryopteris+aemula+Coed+y+Rhaiadr+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUgIkb4aapkcd-z2MbaJc4LT6oji-_yqvPWn8lIIqC2WtyYV10-0DQtOxB1Wk5BDPPIw14UwRWigezZ2qidInXt5VSCtqG8oCRh-7GT4zdituwiRkRk4dkCy0OedaIQWHvhMB/w640-h426/Dryopteris+aemula+Coed+y+Rhaiadr+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div>We found Hay-scented Buckler-fern, Marchredynen bêr or <i>Dryopteris aemula</i> near the Pyrddin river</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/n/neottia_nidusavis_d156.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/n/neottia_nidusavis_d156.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div>Bird's-nest Orchid, Tegeirian nyth aderyn or<i> Neottia nidus-avis</i> <br />found in some quantity near Builth by R Gibbins</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/c/carex_x_prolixa_e67d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/c/carex_x_prolixa_e67d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>A Hybrid Sedge, <i>Carex x prolixa</i> or <i>Carex acuta x elata</i> found in wet Alder wood.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/e/epichloe_typhina_e816.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/e/epichloe_typhina_e816.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Choke disease, <i>Epichloe typhina</i> (probably) on Poa in the same woodland.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-91219038613488627102020-12-05T14:50:00.003+00:002021-01-16T17:32:38.856+00:00Too long for botany<p>Three of us set out on a long walk last Sunday from a car park near Abergwesyn to the Llyn Brianne Reservoir. Abergwesyn itself seems remote in our county and the drive between our start point and the place where we met the road again is a long one of over 10 miles over the "Devil's staircase". The walk up Cwm Culent and down Cwm Garach was "only" about 3 miles. I say only as it was quite tough going at times with much boggy and tussocky ground.</p><p>We returned through forestry and past the Cefn Fanog trig point (lost in the trees). This return route may have been a greater climb but was actually easier - thankfully.</p><p>(The trig point has been photographed by Trig Point baggers - see <a href="http://trigpointinguk-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/244/P244472.jpg">this</a>, but we didn't bother visiting it!)</p><p>There was plenty to see including this very tall and flowering Bush Vetch. There was similarly robust Meadow Vetchling nearby.</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvarZMKl9IhJdcfkAOzwTNbUNpqhNBb80rR8lyCe7pwWQmHVMq7ch3lGrLz9IdgvJtlPL8r3E7o1tbEcZV5BGcHhirzmYCwPwAz3VnFDJomwzsTSc09XeU0LYRKPOHDm9IeG0f/s2048/Vicia+sepium+Abergwesyn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvarZMKl9IhJdcfkAOzwTNbUNpqhNBb80rR8lyCe7pwWQmHVMq7ch3lGrLz9IdgvJtlPL8r3E7o1tbEcZV5BGcHhirzmYCwPwAz3VnFDJomwzsTSc09XeU0LYRKPOHDm9IeG0f/w480-h640/Vicia+sepium+Abergwesyn.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Bush Vetch, Ffacbysen y cloddiau or <i>Vicia sepium</i></div>
<p style="text-align: left;">There were several abandoned homesteads in the valleys and anthill meadows like this.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/ant_hills_1344.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/ant_hills_1344.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: center;">Anthills on Nant Culent near Abegwesyn</span></p>
As can be seen the conditions were not good to start with.<br />
<p>Steph noticed some Bell-heather sheltering from grazing under Gorse:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SB9KiJ_WApnWfT_G142QgVIzDOrvzmMlQKYDRftyzjoXWsiNFWuq9KFl9b8iHxKqp3zIjGSpHTk2wZJGicYrji0XNPqZIzkbJeEyNRihKO8L0NTSxHBcSzFhov88VtCT1suc/s2048/Erica+cineria+in+Gorse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SB9KiJ_WApnWfT_G142QgVIzDOrvzmMlQKYDRftyzjoXWsiNFWuq9KFl9b8iHxKqp3zIjGSpHTk2wZJGicYrji0XNPqZIzkbJeEyNRihKO8L0NTSxHBcSzFhov88VtCT1suc/w480-h640/Erica+cineria+in+Gorse.jpg" width="480" /></a><br /><span style="text-align: left;">Bell Heather, Grug y mêl or <i>Erica cinerea</i></span></div><p>This species is surprisingly uncommon in the county and this record has added a green dot to this map:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyPxUYdPSgySFtyzST4Hw096mRQy_v0E77CJ9uXAh-JMjKNWF69YesLrJpGwTQwcxgNVh0UTwL_wyU3ZgqQ2q9xjNte-h6cMVwXyD84Yr-3xKbuev-VrKXM4es_rb6XpguD9-/s1466/S2_37+Erica+cinerea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1466" data-original-width="1204" height="795" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyPxUYdPSgySFtyzST4Hw096mRQy_v0E77CJ9uXAh-JMjKNWF69YesLrJpGwTQwcxgNVh0UTwL_wyU3ZgqQ2q9xjNte-h6cMVwXyD84Yr-3xKbuev-VrKXM4es_rb6XpguD9-/w653-h795/S2_37+Erica+cinerea.jpg" width="653" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>We saw a fogbow as the mist started clearing around us.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/fogbow_1347.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/fogbow_1347.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: left;">Below Cefn Fanog</span></div><p>(A fog bow, sometimes called a white rainbow, is a similar phenomenon to a rainbow; however, as its name suggests, it appears as a bow in fog rather than rain. Because of the very small size of water droplets that cause fog—smaller than 0.05 millimeters the fog bow has only very weak colors.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is the view back from where we came once we got to the reservoir road.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/cwm_nant_gwrach_1345.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/cwm_nant_gwrach_1345.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: left;">From the Llyn Brianne reservoir road</span></div><p>Llyn Brianne reservoir from our lunch spot.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/llyn_brianne_reservoir_1349.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/llyn_brianne_reservoir_1349.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/irfon_valley_134b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="800" height="201" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/irfon_valley_134b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Looking down from Cefn Fanog on the way back.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/irfon_valley_1348.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/irfon_valley_1348.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-9543410634090933132020-11-28T14:03:00.005+00:002020-11-28T16:20:53.943+00:00And recently...<p><b>Outings in November</b> have been walks with occasional records - to scout out habitats for more attention next year (we hope!)</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/craig_y_cilau_nature_reserve_52b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="800" height="425" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/craig_y_cilau_nature_reserve_52b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>The first </b>was to Craig y Cilau, the cliffs and old quarries above Llangattock. The area is particularly botanically rich and we though we might just catch a very young Hutchinsia plant - they are flowering by March. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/h/hornungia_petraea_125a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/h/hornungia_petraea_125a.jpg" width="640" /></a>Hutchinsia, Beryn y graig or <i>Hornungia petraea</i> (was known as <i>Hutchinsia petraea</i>) Avon Gorge<br /></p><p></p><p> - We didn't.</p><p> But Alan did spot a small patch of this - not previously recorded there:<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/w/wahlenbergia_hederacea_815d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="450" height="640" src="https://www.floralimages.co.uk/images/w/wahlenbergia_hederacea_815d.jpg" width="427" /> </a><br />Ivy-leaved Bellflower, Clychlys dail eiddew or <i>Wahlenbergia hederacea</i> (Abergwesyn 2018)</div><p></p><p>and we identified several areas for exploration next year.</p><p><b>A week later </b>saw us up between the Nedd Fechan and Afon Llia on the high ground, exploring an area known as Plas y Gors. The two rivers both get water from this watershed - and eventually meet up again at Pontneddfechan.<br /></p><p>The forestry there used to cover a known Roman Fort site so it was good to see that area had been cleared and apparently not replanted (other areas near the fort had been). Whether the outline of the fort will eventually become clear again was uncertain !<br /></p><p> We soon passed the Maen Madoc standing stone.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/maen_madoc_133a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/maen_madoc_133a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The Maen Madoc or Maen Madog stone is adjacent to the Roman road Sarn Helen that runs across the Brecon Beacons.<br /><br />It is thought to mark a Christian burial – the stone is inscribed on one side, the Latin inscription reading DERVAC(IVS) FILIVS IVSTI (H)IC IACIT – "Of Dervacus, Son of Justus. He lies here".</p><p>There was a dwelling called Plas y Gors and these are the ruins. We had managed to get through the bog referenced in the name by the time we saw it. It is difficult to imagine the existence supporting such a relatively grand dwelling. There is more information about the ruined farmstead, thought to be 18th or 19th century, on <a href="https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/16090/details/plas-y-gors-ystradfellte">Coflein</a>.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/plasygors_133c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/plasygors_133c.jpg" width="640" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The bog to the left of it certainly is worth a summer visit and has yielded reports of quite rare plants in the 1990s. We saw that the trees that used to surround the bog have been felled which is good news for its future. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/plasygors_133b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/plasygors_133b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Our most recent visit</b> was to the Nant yr Hafod stream which comes off the southern slopes of Mynydd Llangatwg. It is our only site for Cornish Moneywort which I last saw in 2013. We were glad to find it still thriving there.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/cwm_yr_hafod_1342.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/cwm_yr_hafod_1342.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Cwm Nant yr Hafod <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/mynydd_llangatwg_133d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/mynydd_llangatwg_133d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the top of the Cwm the view to the east shows the just-discernible wall of the <a href="http://www.industrialgwent.co.uk/b51-brynmawr/index.htm">Cairn-Mound Reservoir</a> dating from 1880 and abandoned by Welsh Water in 2005. This reservoir collected water destined for the Nant yr Hafod. To the right of the picture the remains of the <a href="http://www.industrialgwent.co.uk/b51-brynmawr/index.htm">Disgwlfa Tramroad</a> crossing of the Nant yr Hafod can be seen.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bing maps shows the reservoir very clearly from above: <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVaNMi1XnQMAq4_I2orZewNtGYuNjRIEGUsi1o5fc1aPLjTo3zH2HfOH22_GN76Ps8xEv9QwHp4UVMlpl2F-2VguJW7rW9ZUGty_ecTs-UmvbXnNt3Gs3UfO4Kf7e6DXbnrY7R/s882/r.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="882" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVaNMi1XnQMAq4_I2orZewNtGYuNjRIEGUsi1o5fc1aPLjTo3zH2HfOH22_GN76Ps8xEv9QwHp4UVMlpl2F-2VguJW7rW9ZUGty_ecTs-UmvbXnNt3Gs3UfO4Kf7e6DXbnrY7R/w640-h426/r.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We walked back down over the mountain with glorious views towards Llanelly Hill. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/mynydd_llangatwg_133e.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/mynydd_llangatwg_133e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and came upon this inscribed stone which it took us a while to decipher:<br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/inscribed_stone_1340.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://www.radnorimages.co.uk/images/inscribed_stone_1340.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p><a href="https://www.brynmawrhistoricalsociety.org.uk/baileys-tramroad">The Hafod Inscribed Stones</a><br />(Go to the link for full details).<br /><br />These Inscribed Stones that are found near Nant yr Hafod on the southern slopes of Mynydd Llangatwg above the Hafod Road/Cymro Road.<br /><br />They were done by Jack Rushton. He was born in 1920 who was an upholsterer by trade.</p><p>The stone we saw is inscribed: "HE THAT SINNETH IS OF THE DEVIL BE YE HOLY”. There appear to me more letters beneath but we couldn't decipher them. We did manage to read almost all of the above.</p><p>There are many more similar stones to be found up there! <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/s/sibthorpia_europaea_d882.jpg" width="640" />Cornish Moneywort, Deilen gron Cernyw or <i>Sibthorpia europaea</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> and flowering in July 2013: <br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/s/sibthorpia_europaea_2fca.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="506" height="640" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/s/sibthorpia_europaea_2fca.jpg" width="480" /></a><br /></p><p> Parrot Waxcaps back near the cars:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/h/hygrocybe_psittacina_d880.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/h/hygrocybe_psittacina_d880.jpg" width="640" /></a>Parrot Waxcap or <i>Hygrocybe psittacina</i><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-58545832040374952132020-11-27T16:43:00.014+00:002020-11-28T16:23:51.398+00:00Botany in Brecknock, the story continues<p>We haven't been idle and this is the story from May to September. </p><p>Our informal Brecknock Botany group carried on investigating their local flora
individually all through to late June when we very tentatively started to go
out in small, socially distanced groups. </p><p style="text-align: left;">But before this…
Working close to home with regular patrolling of the same
routes soon paid dividends – I did not know <i>Viola reichenbachiana</i> (Early
Dog-violet) was only 100 m from my home until this year. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/v/viola_reichenbachiana_b7c6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="675" height="640" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/v/viola_reichenbachiana_b7c6.jpg" width="640" /></a><i>Viola reichenbachiana</i> (Early
Dog-violet or Fioled y coed) Forest Road, Hay<br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">
In late April I received reports of an abundance of <i>Orchis
mascula</i> (Early-purple Orchid) just above Brecon well within several people’s
exercise walking distance. I must say I had never myself encountered this plant
growing like this. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/o/orchis_mascula_b862.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="800" height="479" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/o/orchis_mascula_b862.jpg" width="640" /></a>Early-purple Orchid, Tegeirian coch y gwanwyn or <i>Orchis mascula</i> (picture: Kieth Noble)<i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;">In May Joan noticed <i>Plantago coronopus</i> (Buck’s-horn Plantain) in the main Brecon car park. This had been new to the county up on the Epynt early in 2015.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/p/plantago_coronopus_b7c5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="506" height="640" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/p/plantago_coronopus_b7c5.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Buck's-horn Plantain, Llyriad corn carw or <i>Plantago coronopus </i>(picture: Joan Millard)</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">An <i>Allium triquetrum</i> candidate at Joan’s local churchyard at Llandefalle turned out to be <i>Allium trifoliatum</i> (Hirsute Garlic) on more careful examination / discussion online – proving, I hope, that we were not cutting any corners by working remotely. Paul Green was able to confirm remotely as referee and this is a new Wales record.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/a/allium_trifoliatum_b8ef.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="506" height="640" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/a/allium_trifoliatum_b8ef.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hirsute Garlic, Garlleg cedenog or <i>Allium trifoliatum</i> (picture: Joan Millard)<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">A walk along the Wye looking for early signs of the <i>Persicaria mitis</i> (Tasteless Water-pepper) found last year revealed a small population of <i>Scirpus sylvaticus</i> (Wood Club-rush) right by the water. It was last seen in about the same area in 1979 and is not at all commonly recorded in our county.</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/s/scirpus_sylvaticus_ba5b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/s/scirpus_sylvaticus_ba5b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Wood Club-rush, Clwbfrwynen bengron or <i>Scirpus sylvaticus</i> by the Wye in Hay<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">An exploration of Waun Ddu raised bog (at Craig y Cilau above Llangattock) by two of us resulted in several good records including <i>Carex montana</i> (Soft-leaved Sedge) and <i>Eleocharis quinqueflora</i> (Few-flowered Spike-rush). A week later, Anne finally found <i>Hornungia petraea</i> (Hutchinsia) on the cliffs above (a personal quest) - in dead form but still unmistakeable.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/h/hornungia_petraea_bcb7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="427" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/h/hornungia_petraea_bcb7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hutchinsia, Beryn y graig or <i>Hornungia petraea</i> (picture: Anne Griffiths)</div><div style="text-align: center;">"It's dead, Jim" <br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I had noticed records for <i>Gymnadenia conopsea</i> (Fragrant Orchid), <i>Platanthera chlorantha</i> (Greater Butterfly-orchid) and <i>Epipactis palustris</i> (Marsh Helleborine) in 2015 near Brecon from an unknown name but confirmed by an eminent botanist. So, getting a request to go and visit from the landowner was welcome. I went as soon as I could to find a delightful wet meadow that the owners had left on minimal grazing since acquiring the property. Not only were there the Orchids (recorded in a Kew scheme <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/citizen-science/orchid-observers.html">“Orchid Observers”</a> that asked for photographic submission) but there was <i>Eriophorum latifolium</i> (Broad-leaved Cotton-grass) as well as a host of other Brecknock Axiophytes. Even better, I was told that a neighbouring farm, had a small amount of <i>Genista tinctoria</i> (Dyer’s Greenweed) which had not been recorded in a long time in the area. Again a visit was most rewarding and benign neglect was the regime – this time the owner, who walked me through his fields to the wet site, apologised for the Yellow-rattle not being native – it turned out he had spread hay from a nearby farm he had worked on several years back thus introducing it in what I would say is an entirely natural way… This farm also had <i>Epipactis palustris</i> (Marsh Helleborine) and <i>Eriophorum latifolium</i> (Broad-leaved Cottongrass) as well as abundant <i>Cirsium dissectum</i> (Meadow Thistle). </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/e/epipactis_palustris_bd29.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="506" height="640" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/e/epipactis_palustris_bd29.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Marsh Helleborine, Caldrist y gors or <i>Epipactis palustris</i> near Libanus<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I was able to find the roadside <i>Epipactis palustris</i> between Brecon and Hay on the way home – it had had a few fallow years but was back.<br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I was delighted that Tim Rich re-found our <i>Orthilia secunda</i> (Serrated Wintergreen) population complete with fruiting stems up on the top cliffs of Craig Cerrig-gleisiad. I was shown it by intrepid wardens in 2013 and Mike Porter had climbed down to it in the 1970s more than once with Ray Woods providing the confirmation for the 1980s. Not many of us have seen it close up since Beverly A Miles first recorded it in 1955.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzJ4_lVG2ij1e0ebUoMNDjy7-7ZGGrQ3A-tbpNeIxK626Y9KgDqm1LHCTUgbQYGr4N7W-UMe8KpTWblQtuWIJqUcsDivhKeRYR1O0aEw7UCX9fwr9ucqKg93hcNnajQfgySRa/s1280/tr+orthilia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzJ4_lVG2ij1e0ebUoMNDjy7-7ZGGrQ3A-tbpNeIxK626Y9KgDqm1LHCTUgbQYGr4N7W-UMe8KpTWblQtuWIJqUcsDivhKeRYR1O0aEw7UCX9fwr9ucqKg93hcNnajQfgySRa/w640-h480/tr+orthilia.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tim with Serrated Wintergreen, Glesyn-y-gaeaf danheddog or <i>Orthilia secunda</i> up on the Craig Cerrig-gleisiad cliffs.<br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Botany group member Anne likes to explore limestone near where she lives in Monmouthshire and found <i>Erigeron acris</i> (Blue Fleabane), initially in Monmouthshire Vice County (where they have lots) and later our side near Gilwern in first records for some time. <br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/e/erigeron_acris_d672.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/e/erigeron_acris_d672.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Blue Fleabane, Amrhydlwyd glas or <i>Erigeron acris</i> (which was <i>Erigeron acer</i>) (Picture: Anne Griffiths)<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Undoubtedly the most exciting record of the year was <i>Pyrola minor</i> (Common Wintergreen) – possibly recorded our side of the border in 1911 but just as likely not. It gets close to us in Glamorganshire, but Arlene found it very definitely in the county at Abercraf and, it later transpired, in quite large numbers and area of distribution. The site is subject to development, but we were able to confirm a large and extensive population. (There are plans to relocate affected sensitive plants.) </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/p/pyrola_minor_ca04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="450" height="640" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/p/pyrola_minor_ca04.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Common Wintergreen, Glesyn-y-gaeaf bach or <i>Pyrola minor</i><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">A bryological exploration by Claire resulted in new records of S<i>agina nodosa</i> (Knotted Pearlwort) and <i>Lycopodium clavatum</i> (Stag's-horn Clubmoss) in Cwm Callan . The Pearlwort was only the third record since 2000 in the county.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/s/sagina_nodosa_2353.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="450" height="640" src="https://floralimages.co.uk/images/s/sagina_nodosa_2353.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Knotted Pearlwort, Corwlyddyn clymog or <i>Sagina nodosa</i> (photographed several years ago)<br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Finally, Tim Rich has been updating records of our endemic and rare Hieraciums with some in decline and others doing well. See his <a href="http://bit.ly/hawktim">videos on You Tube</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />While doing this, Tim reported a single plant high up on Tarren yr Esgob (cliffs above Capel y Ffin) of <i>Rosa spinosissima</i> (Burnet Rose). This was a first record for a very long time for the county.<br />
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In my case, I have plenty of the admin work that goes with being a recorder to get on with and a small garden to take much better care of than normal. However, there is always that itch to be out and seeing what is developing botanically in the countryside. Members of my loyal botany group are similarly restricted, and we are all lucky enough to be living in places where the permitted local exercise still offers opportunities to "see what is going on". <br />
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The scramble to record as widely and comprehensively as possible for the Atlas project that finished on 31st December did also lead to an "identify, tick the list and move on" botanical culture that we were looking forward to leaving behind this year. We would have taken things more slowly in any case and now we really must. An interesting young plant spotted on the walk can always be re-evaluated on a future occasion when there is better evidence to be sure exactly what it is. We can also observe and learn from almost daily observations of exactly how particular plants develop. <br />
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It has been an incredible spring with rain and heat alternating in the just the way many plants seem to like, and an abundance of choice species has been reported by many of the group. (We cover the county reasonably well - from Crickhowell and Hay via Brecon and Talybont down to Coelbren.)<br />
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Reports from all over the county say that it is a bumper year for this usually shy and retiring little plant:<br />
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Moschatel,
Mwsglys
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<i>Adoxa moschatellina</i><br />
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All these photographs below are by members of the Brecknock Botany Group in the last month.<br />
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Meadow Saxifrage,
Tormaen y gweunydd
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<i>Saxifraga granulata</i></div>
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Early-purple Orchid,
Tegeirian coch y gwanwyn
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<i>Orchis mascula</i></div>
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Herb-paris,
Cwlwm cariad or
<i>Paris quadrifolia</i><br />
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Three-cornered Garlic,
Garlleg trionglog
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<i>Allium triquetrum</i></div>
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Ramsons, Wild garlic,
Craf y geifr
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<i>Allium ursinum</i><br />
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Water Horsetail,
Marchrawnen y dŵr
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<i>Equisetum fluviatile</i><br />
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Fringecups,
Clychau’r clawdd
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<i>Tellima grandiflora</i><br />
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Pavement gems</h3>
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I have particularly been interested in the plants growing in the pavements (and walls) of Hay-on-Wye. The pavements are much less walked and several species are taking advantage.</div>
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Rue-leaved Saxifrage,
Tormaen tribys
or
<i>Saxifraga tridactylites</i><br />
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This is always to be found in small quantities in the spring on Hay pavements and on its walls but the abundance this year is unusual. It's even along Castle Street. Another place to see it in the county is high on the limestone rocks above Llangattock.</div>
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Brecknock Axiophytes</h3>
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One thing we have got on with is producing a list of Axiophytes for the county. "Axiophyte" means "worthy plant" and these are the species that arouse interest and praise from people when they are seen. They are indicators of habitat that is considered important for conservation and, unlike rare plants, will all be reasonably likely to be found if you look in the right sort of place in the county.</div>
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We deliberated (online) over lists and argued about their relative merits and came up with a list of just over 200 plants.</div>
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Here is a gallery of just a few of the Brecknock Axiophytes we identified:</div>
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Green Spleenwort,
Duegredynen werdd
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<i>Asplenium viride</i></div>
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Giant Bellflower,
Clychlys mawr
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<i>Campanula latifolia</i></div>
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Marsh Horsetail,
Marchrawnen y gors
or
<i>Equisetum palustre</i></div>
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Three-nerved Sandwort,
Tywodlys teirnerf
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Moehringia trinervia</div>
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Cycyllog bach
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<i>Scutellaria minor</i></div>
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Early Dog-violet,
Fioled y coed
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<i>Viola reichenbachiana</i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-45699346587774605572020-03-28T14:39:00.001+00:002020-11-28T16:26:35.209+00:00A Busy Final Atlas Year for BrecknockWe’ve had a good year in 2019 – and, of course, we now have a very slow
(recording wise) start to 2020. So here is a summary of our main finds
last year.
The very first new find was <i>Crocus tommasinianus</i>, Early Crocus, at
Gilwern in February, reported by Heather Colls. Not a species I have
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Glabrous Whitlowgrass,
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<span style="font-size: small;">We are now familiar with <i>Erophila glabrescens</i>, Glabrous Whitlowgrass and it is common in Hay-on-Wye pavements in March. No surprise then really that we saw it at Sennybridge when doing an early survey around the town and the edge of the Army Camp area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It’s always welcome to get a report from a neighbouring county about something I have missed near our borders and it helps when they are used to the “new to Brecknock” plant already. This was the case for <i>Cardamine quinquefolia</i>, Whorled Coralroot at Llangattock reported by Steph Tyler in April. Quite a few of our new species take the A40 route into the county from the east. This is a garden escape originating in Eastern Europe but is well established in the wild in Monmouthshire.</span></div>
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Lili ddrewllyd
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Y benboeth hollt
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<span style="font-size: small;">I didn’t mind stepping into a boggy patch up to my thigh at Gors Llyn near Coelbren as it brought me face to face with <i>Galeopsis bifida</i>, Bifid Hemp-nettle, in late July. This was a first for the hectad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">By August some members of my regular group had decided to go out on their own account in between our planned meetings. Their trip to the recently drained Neuadd Reservoir behind Pen y Fan was miserable in weather terms but very productive (the monads they did were practically unrecorded) and<i> Scutellaria minor</i>, Lesser Skullcap was one of the finds which was new for the hectad. No doubt it had been inhabiting the shores of the reservoir for years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />Sometimes it is good to take a break from Atlas recording and I did exactly that when taking a walk out of Hay-on-Wye along the river with my wife one Sunday in August. There was plenty of <i>Persicaria hydropiper</i>, Water-pepper (mental note to record it when back) but what was that rather different one in the long grass? Closer examination showed long whiskers on the ochrae which I had a vague idea was significant, so I tasted a leaf and after the usual wait – nothing. A sample went home and it did seem, after consulting the books, that I had <i>Persicaria mitis</i>, Tasteless Water-pepper. This wasn’t quite a first for the county as A E Wade had recorded it down in the far south west of the county in 1927 – with no records since. I went back over the next few days and found more plants near the original site – which was just as well as the original plant in long grass was gone. (I had only taken a small sample!) Seeds from these plants confirmed the identification.</span></div>
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Y dinboeth fach
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<span style="font-size: small;">It neatly rounds off the Persicaria history of my time in the county as Paul Green had found <i>Persicaria minor</i>, Small Water-pepper near Llangorse Lake soon after I started being recorder. He thought at first it was <i>P. mitis</i> (a very rare mis-step!) but was soon emailing me to say it must be <i>P. minor</i> and asking me to check seeds. This was again a second-ever record (same location 1975) and more populations were found in the county of the next two years (mainly by Paul).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Andy Shaw found a plant that’s not even in my books in mid-August. <i>Polemonium pauciflorum</i>, Fewflower Jacob's-ladder was growing as a weed at a Holiday Park near Builth. There were many plants growing on bare ground underneath a cypress tree. No likely source was found in the local area of the holiday park which is dominated by mown grass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One quirky find was <i>Carduus nutans</i>, Musk Thistle found under Hay Bluff in December. It’s not new for hectad as it has been seen before in Herefordshire but it is Atlas significant and new for the county in that hectad. We were looking for <i>Carlina vulgaris</i>, Carline Thistle and identified a suitable looking habitat in the distance (an area of disturbance probably from quarrying). Such was my determination to find the Carline for the Atlas that I at first was trying to make the rather stunted out-of-season plant fit that mould. This was obviously wrong (and pointed out to me by companions as such). So, we never found the Carline but found something new instead! </span></div>
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Ysgallen Siarl
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The rocks near the road (various Silurian beds) had abundant ferns including Black Spleenwort in some profusion. I photographed a small plant in good condition:<br />
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Meanwhile some last minute submissions of records have been coming in for the atlas deadline including this welcome one for the Black Mountains spotted by Andy Cross near the summit of Pen Carreg-calch in May 2019.</div>
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Mountain Pansy,
Trilliw y mynydd
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<i>Viola lutea</i></div>
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This plant must be reasonably frequent in the area but the only other sighting since 2000 was by myself on a family walk under Twmpa near Hay on 2001. We see them reasonably frequently on the less-grazed Epynt range.<br />
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Hirwaun Two Monad Hunt with Fish and Chips 19</h3>
We started the 2020 campaign by taking part in this BSBI challenge at Hirwaun. It wasn't long after I proposed the site (not recorded significantly in the Vice County) that I was informed that we would "have to" have Fish and Chips at Penaluna's. This was great advice and this award winning Fish Cafe deserves to be better known.<br />
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The New Year Plant Hunt Group</div>
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In the picture we are proudly standing by a very dead Fragrant Agrimony plant - a good find for the whole 10 km square and only slightly offset by the discovery that Barry had already found the population on his side of the border in Glamorgan Vice County (in 2015). The river that forms the boundary here is underground (due to human activity) but my grid reference put us firmly on our side of the border for this record. There wasn't a lot in flower and we "enhanced" our count by recording flowering plants in two 1km squares. The overall list of species we managed by examining a lot of dead stuff was good however.<br />
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Our previous hunts:<br />
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<a href="https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-good-start-to-new-year.html">Builth 2015</a> (19 flowering)<br />
<a href="https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2016/01/bsbi-new-year-hunt.html">Llangorse 2016</a> (19 again)<br />
<a href="https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2017/01/new-year-plant-hunt.html">Ystradgynlais 2017</a> (18)<br />
<a href="https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-year-plant-hunt-2018.html">Crickhowell 2018</a> (53 - we will probably never surpass this!)<br />
<a href="https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2019/01/bsbi-new-year-plant-hunt-number-x.html">Pontsticill 2019</a> (18)<br />
Hirwaun 2020 19 flowering in two monads (with duplicates!)<br />
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There have been nine altogether since the event started and "we" have participated in six. (Myself in five.)</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-50053028233495466732019-12-05T15:53:00.002+00:002019-12-06T15:25:33.611+00:00Last Minute FindsWe thought it was all over (the BSBI Atlas project I mean) but an attempt to find a Charophyte up near Hay Bluff led to two Atlas-significant vascular finds (but no Chara I could see or get onto my grapnel).<br />
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It seems Dove's-foot Cranesbill isn't common in the hectad and not yet seen after 2000 so we were pleased to find it on a raised area that looked like it had been quarried in the distant past:<br />
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Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, Pig yr aran or
<i>Geranium molle</i></div>
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Nearby was this thistle which confused us at first but turned out to be one that hasn't yet been recorded for the hectad at all in the county and only before 2000 over the border in England (Herefordshire) - unless records are in the pipeline there, of course.</div>
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Musk Thistle,
Ysgallen Siarl
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<i>Carduus nutans </i></div>
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Apparently well behind in development this season but there were many rosettes for next year around. </div>
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And we found plenty of Pillwort - this must be one of the country's strongholds for this decreasing and rare fern. The ephemeral pools in the area were very deep resulting in very long fronds at quite a depth. </div>
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Pillwort,
Pelenllys gronynnog
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<i>Pilularia globulifera </i></div>
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Here is a close up of the unusual plant:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-40977980465784380422019-11-22T17:30:00.001+00:002019-11-22T17:30:50.189+00:00Winter sets inSince I last wrote... <br />
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A revisit to complete the survey near Coelbren led to some good extra records including many of these in wet fields:<br />
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Marsh Lousewort,
Melog y waun
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<i>Pedicularis palustris</i></div>
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Then I was off for a mostly non-botanical break in South West Cork but did photograph these and other plants of note:<br />
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Bell Heather,
Grug y mêl, Fraoch Cloigíneach
or
<i>Erica cinerea</i><br />
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This was on the site of Drombeg Stone Circle (near Glandore) which also has the remains of a Fullacht Fia and Hut circle (foreground).</div>
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And then on the very top of the old Martello Tower at Garinish Island, Glengarriff this (which had me puzzled for a while).</div>
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Fairy Foxglove,
Clychau’r tylwyth teg, Méirín sí
or<i>
Erinus alpinus</i></div>
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Right by the water's edge I was puzzled by these leaves until I spotted the lone and paltry flower:<br />
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Kidney Vetch,
Plucen felen, Méara Muire
or
<i>Anthyllis vulneraria</i></div>
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Back in Brecknock the group went to an unrecorded square near Beulah and recorded quite a long list of plants together with several fungi such as:<br />
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Parasol Mushroom</div>
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And just a few days ago an unsuccessful attempt to find Polypodium cambricum led us through these magical woods at the head of the Dyffryn Crawnon Valley..<br />
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The group in good spirits after a difficult time climbing up through woods on a path that had become very overgrown / blocked by fallen trees. We are at an old Limekiln.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-29899518201873228782019-09-24T15:41:00.000+01:002020-01-18T09:30:16.633+00:00Another SummaryA round up for the last month. The end of August saw us exploring a small valley above Talybont on Usk and we came across this.<br />
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Bifid Hemp-nettle,
Y benboeth hollt
or
<i>Galeopsis bifida</i><br />
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You have to look at the flowers carefully when you find Hemp-nettle as every now and then it is this slightly smaller-flowered species with different marking and a small notch at the bottom of the flower. (When the plant isn't flowering it has to be recorded as one of the two species.) </div>
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We only seem to see this on road verges - or gardens as a weed. I spotted these driving from Brecon to Hay near Felin Fach. Only just in time to catch before the major verge-mowing.</div>
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Wild Carrot,
Moronen
or<i>
Daucus carota subsp. carota</i></div>
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The fruiting head always wraps itself up like this.</div>
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Steph confirmed this species that we had seen earlier in the year at Dolymynach reservoir (Elan Valley).</div>
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Cleddlys arnofiol
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Sparganium angustifolium</i></div>
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And this was reported very near where I live in hay in a car park - not a common casual in Brecknock.</div>
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Apple-of-Peru,
Afal Periw
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<i>Nicandra physalodes</i></div>
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Even more unlikely but firmly established as a casual alien was this, which isn't even in our standard (UK) books, but Andy, the rare plant expert, knew what it was. Found near Builth.<br />
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Fewflower Jacob's-ladder, <span style="color: #eeeeee;">Ychydig Blodyn Ysgol Jacob</span>
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Polemonium pauciflorum</div>
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Steph did some exploration of the moorland near the Elan reservoirs and found this gem in damp ground.<br />
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Ivy-leaved Bellflower,
Clychlys dail eiddew
or
<i>Wahlenbergia hederacea</i><br />
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The peat in the area was rather eroded though. Hopefully restoration work is to come. <i><br /></i></div>
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And Anne did the <a href="https://www.bis.org.uk/">BIS </a>"previously unrecorded" square, finding the end stage of this:<br />
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Broad-leaved Helleborine,
Y galdrist lydanddail
or
<i>Epipactis helleborine</i><br />
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And finally last week we were in lanes and paths near Llanbedr in the south east of the county finding several interesting species including this that we don't see at all often:<br />
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Long-stalked Crane's-bill,
Pig-yr-aran hirgoes
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<i>Geranium columbinum</i>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-51498309249363371862019-08-24T11:02:00.001+01:002020-11-28T16:28:29.957+00:00Out on their ownMy botany group are getting much more confident in their plant identification and have started to go out on their own making records for Brecknock.<br />
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Some are very intrepid and endure all kinds of bad weather to get their records, so this blog starts with things I wasn't present for.<br />
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The area around Neuadd Reservoir (south of Pen y Fan) is relatively unrecorded for the BSBI. So Anne and others set of up there on a prearranged day - the forecast did not put them off! (But they were prudent in their preparations and plans of course.)<br />
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So the pictures are rather - dull...<br />
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And lunch was best taken standing up.<br />
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Making the records was difficult in the wet.<br />
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This sample was brought back just to make sure - which is just as well as it is the first ever record for the whole 10km square:<br />
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Lesser Skullcap,
Cycyllog bach
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<i>Scutellaria minor</i> </div>
Here from a nicer day somewhere else:<br />
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It was only the second time this century that this has been found in the 10km square:<br />
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Marsh Lousewort,
Melog y waun
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<i>Pedicularis palustris</i></div>
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Other great finds - with "library" images:</div>
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- again only the second record this century.<br />
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Common Fleabane, Cedowydd or <i>Pulicaria dysenterica</i></div>
- also only the second record this century.<br />
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And explorations along the canal near Llangattock turned up this rarity:<br />
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Narrow-leaved Water-plantain,
Llyriad-y-dŵr culddail
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<i>Alisma lanceolatum</i></div>
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Sue has been recording an ancient lane near her and finding a rich and varied list including:<br />
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Fringecups,
Clychau’r clawdd
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Meanwhile I was out doing general recording and the like with a few highlights:<br />
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Pepper-saxifrage,
Ffenigl yr hwch
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<i>Silaum silaus</i></div>
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(rather rare) at Llangorse lake meadows.<br />
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Finding this which we don't often see:<br />
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Pale Persicaria,
Canwraidd y dom
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<i>Persicaria lapathifolia</i><br />
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And a valley with a lot of</div>
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Carline Thistle,
Ysgallen Siarl
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<i>Carlina vulgaris</i><br />
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And a tiny:</div>
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Devil's-bit Scabious,
Tamaid y cythraul
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<i>Succisa pratensis</i><br />
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near a base-rich spring flush and just managing to get a flower out before the sheep notice.</div>
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Then last Sunday on a walk I spotted:</div>
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Tasteless Water-pepper,
Y dinboeth ddi-flas
or
<i>Persicaria mitis </i> <br />
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Not recorded much in Wales apart from the Snowdonia park and Monmouthshire. This is the first record we have in our county since one other in 1927 near Coelbren. I was lucky here as there is plenty of the common (Bitter) Water-pepper around and the plant I first saw was quite prominent. But not to be found two days later when I found the one I photographed above. Three more days later it was much harder to discern the <i>P. mitis</i> plants and I doubt I would have spotted them then if not sure they were there. It develops rapidly and changes from day to day!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-53081681125299633002019-08-04T11:58:00.001+01:002019-08-04T11:58:38.593+01:00A Bog, a Quarry and Limestone ScreeThe bog was right on the southern border of Victorian Brecknock. It was just as well the weather has been dry as it allowed us to explore it thoroughly and find several choice species that were yet to be recorded since 2000, including masses of Marsh Cinquefoil.<br />
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Marsh Cinquefoil,
Pumnalen y gors
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<i>Comarum palustre
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This had us temporarily scratching our heads:<br />
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Bogbean,
Ffeuen y gors
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<i>Menyanthes trifoliata</i><br />
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It was nice to stumble upon this:</div>
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Bifid Hemp-nettle,
Y benboeth hollt
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<i>Galeopsis bifida</i><br />
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Books give the impression this is about as common as Common Hemp-nettle but that isn't my experience - of course for a large part of the year with no flowers it is impossible to tell which species you have. But when they do flower, in my experience, more than 10:1 they are the correctly-named "Common" species. Even the excellent Vegetative Key by John Poland gives up on this one - you need a flower.</div>
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Then a trip back to the disused quarries on the Brecon - Penderyn Road to collect this hopefully to confirm it with the referee.</div>
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(Possibly) Ostenfeld's Eyebright,
Effros Ostenfeld
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<i>Euphrasia ostenfeldii</i><br />
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We went up to the peak above the quarries (which incidentally appear to have become disused before 1885 judging from old OS maps) - finding a few unexpected gems at the top such as Lady's Bedstraw and Green Spleenwort).</div>
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There were small sections of Limestone pavement up there and more areas of broken up pavement. </div>
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- with a few plants such as Herb-Robert in the crevices (or grykes) and rather unexpectedly:</div>
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Dog's Mercury,
Bresychen y cŵn
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A trip to Darren Fawr and the area around was again for various purposes including mopping up a few missed species. </div>
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Braving the roadside was worth it for this and other gems on the lower slopes:</div>
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Pearly Everlasting,
Edafeddog hirhoedlog
or
<i>Anaphalis margaritacea</i><br />
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And one species we had almost given up hope of seeing was finally spotted by Anne after I had scanned this treacherous slope (of lime-burning spoil?) too perfunctorily.</div>
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Musk Thistle,
Ysgallen bendrom
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<i>Carduus nutans</i><br />
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And, in the quarry, this Lizard was basking on an old pallet.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-78414538407979672152019-07-23T11:55:00.003+01:002019-07-23T11:55:39.354+01:00A SummaryLlangorse - the second day of BSBI Plant Families course where participants were asked to work out which family the many plants that grow there belonged to - this one was tricky:<br />
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Common Meadow-rue,
Arianllys
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<i>Thalictrum flavum</i></div>
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Then some explorations at the edge of the SENTA range to find some Atlas targets including:<br />
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White Sedge,
Hesgen benwen
or
<i>Carex canescens</i><br />
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This was right by the tree we selected for lunch after some searching of delightful spring flushes abundant with:</div>
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Marsh St John's-wort,
Eurinllys y gors
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<i>Hypericum elodes</i><br />
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- not really flowering yet but on the verge - a picture of the flower from somewhere else:</div>
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Later we found:<br />
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Common Butterwort,
Tafod y gors
or
<i>Pinguicula vulgaris</i><br />
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- and driving home traffic lights at roadworks stopped me right by:</div>
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Agrimony, Llysiau’r dryw or <i>Agrimonia eupatoria</i> </div>
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Then an exporation in and around Traeth Mawr near the Visitor Centre for various missing species. All pictures from Arlene as I didn't take any:<i> </i>(These were not necessarily missing species for the Atlas - just worth a photo!)<i><br /></i><br />
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Lesser Water-plantain,
Llyriad-y-dŵr bach
or
<i>Baldellia ranunculoides</i></div>
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(In more places than I remember from before)<br />
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Bog Pimpernel,
Gwlyddyn-Mair y gors
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Anagallis tenella</i><br />
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This was one we particularly wanted as yet to be recorded for the area since 2000 - found exactly where previously recorded and there was plenty in the lane.<br />
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Black Bryony,
Cwlwm y coed
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<i>Tamus communis</i></div>
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Cross-leaved Heath,
Grug croesddail
or
<i>Erica tetralix</i></div>
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Shoreweed,
Beistonnell ferllyn
or
<i>Littorella uniflora</i></div>
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Creeping Willow,
Corhelygen
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Salix repens</i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-90712079249632081382019-07-07T11:40:00.000+01:002019-07-08T07:12:28.502+01:00Reservoirs Springs and QuarriesI've had a break but meanwhile members of the botany group had continued to record many plants including this:<br />
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Ivy-leaved Bellflower,
Clychlys dail eiddew
or
<i>Wahlenbergia hederacea</i></div>
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Then on our way to the Elan Valley we noticed this at our meeting point in Llyswen:<br />
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White Bryony,
Bloneg y ddaear
or
<i>Bryonia dioica</i> </div>
-which isn't that common in our county.<br />
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Up by the main dam (in our territory) we were wading through acres of common Ling with rather abundant:<br />
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Bell Heather,
Grug y mêl
or
<i>Erica cinerea</i></div>
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- in most of our county we feel privileged to find the odd plant...</div>
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We made a lot of good records but didn't find the rarity we were crossing our fingers for...</div>
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<i></i><i></i>There was plenty of:<br />
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Small Cudweed,
Edafeddog fach
or
<i>Filago minima </i></div>
- on the dry trackways.<br />
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Oak Fern,
Rhedynen dridarn
or
<i>Gymnocarpium dryopteris</i> </div>
- in the shadier parts and woodland.<br />
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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.</div>
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I did examine these Hieraciums which will take a little more identification effort on a return visit (we have to go back for the <i>Euphrasias</i> which were too young to be sure about.)<br />
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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.<br />
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Brooklime,
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-44065614930810907062019-06-22T15:04:00.002+01:002019-06-22T16:55:01.383+01:00The last two weeksThe first week started with a report of a rarity growing near Brecon:<br />
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Greater Broomrape, Gorfanhadlen fawr or <i>Orobanche rapum-genistae</i></div>
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This is a rare plant nationally and declining in Brecknock so it was good to hear of a previously unknown population from Phil. Like other members of its genus, this grows on the roots of another plant so does not need leaves or chlorophyll. This species grows on Gorse or Broom (and other woody members of that family) so there should be plenty of host plant for it around here! Maybe we don't inspect Gorse bushes enough. In this case the Gorse in question had been severely cut back - maybe prompting the plant underground to send up flowering spikes.</div>
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I went to the Llyn Brianne Dam area the next day, mainly for a guided geological session but did make some records of local specialities.</div>
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This was abundant but not yet flowering on some of the rocks in the area:</div>
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Woodruff, Briwydd bêr or <i>Galium odoratum</i></div>
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Growing with Wild Garlic, <i>Allium ursinum,</i> and Dog's Mercury, <i>Mercurialis perennis,</i> in this picture.</div>
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The Wild Garlic was abundant. Ray Woods (coming in the other direction) spotted Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage first and it was quite abundant in calcareous flushes:</div>
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Alternate-leaved Golden-saxifrage, Eglyn bob yn eilddail or <i>Chrysosplenium alternifolium</i> </div>
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And there was this to talk about around us as we had our lunch in the farmyard:</div>
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I called in on a road verge in Pontsticill where we had seen dried husks of a member of the Pink Family (Caryophyllaceae) in November. This wasn't what I expected:</div>
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Corncockle, Bulwg yr ŷd or <i>Agrostemma githago</i> </div>
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An arable weed of the past but, in this case probably derived from a wild flower seed mixture. Still it adorns the verge well. We had been checking out the Brecon Mountain Railway:</div>
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A foray down the upper reaches of the Honddu (Brecon's river that joins the Usk there) led to a long list of records and we visited this cliff on one of the tributary streams where Wood Bitter-vetch was found in 1988. It's still there, clinging on and avoiding the sheep that have led to it not being elsewhere in the area.</div>
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Finally, last Thursday we were set a challenge at the <a href="https://www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/">Caring for God's Acre</a> meeting near Beulah (Eglwys Oen Duw) where we were told of a record from 1991 for Ivy-leaved Bellflower for the graveyard. It's not classic habitat for this but we looked, I missed it, and then Steph spotted it when peering down to examine a Heath Speedwell that one of the participants had asked about. </div>
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That is the confirmatory picture from my phone (after some more looking around we found one flower) but here is a nice picture of this lovely little flower from the east of the Abergwesyn Commons:<br />
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After the meeting, Sue and I did some more recording in the area, finding a good patch of Wood Horsetail and some Cow-wheat:</div>
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Common Cow-wheat, Gliniogai or <i>Melampyrum pratense</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362842.post-48098643551615807832019-06-09T20:55:00.000+01:002019-06-09T20:55:17.593+01:00Busy TimesThree outings in a week. First to common land above Talgarth to get explore an area not looked at for Brecon Botany for a while and where we soon saw:<br />
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Ivy-leaved Crowfoot,
Crafanc-y-frân dail eiddew
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Also near where we parked as this Birch which had all the hallmarks of <i>Betula celtiberica</i> (now <i>Betula pubescens subspecies celtiberica</i> I believe).<br />
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The older members of the party took the easier route to the headwaters of the Rhiangoll, crossing over a low part of the Dragon's Back, but young Steph offered to take a look higher up and found this on rocks.<br />
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Hairy Rock-cress,
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Then some explorations near the Wye at Newbridge with Ray Woods where we saw another water-crowfoot in a quiet bend in the river.<br />
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Common Water-crowfoot,
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Ray took us to see the Stone Bramble that grows in a wood there.</div>
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Finally to a section of the A40 - or the paths and streams either side of it between Trecastle and Halfway. I had just had a report of a splendid display of Pyrenean Lilies just by the road so we had to check that out.</div>
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Pyrenean Lily,
Lili ddrewllyd
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Lilium pyrenaicum</i></div>
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Obviously not native but equally obviously happy in their new home.</div>
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The Honeysuckle could be quite rampant.<br />
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Honeysuckle,
Gwyddfid
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<i>Lonicera periclymenum</i></div>
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Needless to say a lot of records were made - many of them being plants that haven't been recorded for some time in the areas we visited.</div>
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