Flower Walk 3 July 02

Martyn Stead leads flower walks on the first Wednesday of the summer months - May, June, July and August. The walks start at 7pm from the car park. We do not have an extensive database of botanical information on our site. If you want to know more about any of the flowers listed here, we suggest you visit the Reticule web site. The site will also help you name a flower based on the description you can provide.

Seven people turned up. The weather was cool, cloudy and dry. Martyn Stead identified and Jonathon Barritt recorded.

Comment: 200 spikes Common Spotted Orchid in Wellfield. 40 spikes in Long Meadow.

Wellfield area

1. Common Spotted Orchid
2. Smooth Tare
3. Common Birds Foot Trefoil
4. Great Willowherb
5. Hairy Tare
6. Water Figwort
7. Hogweed
8. Wood Dock
9. Broad-leaved Dock
10. Angelica
11. Soft Rush
12. Greater Reedmace
13. Common Vetch
14. Horseradish
15. Ox-eye Daisy
16. Creeping Thistle

Bridge area on Caldy Valley Road

17. Nipplewort
18. Teasel
19. Scented Mayweed
20. Field Forget-me-not
21. Curled Dock
22. Scarlet Pimpernel
23. Pineapple Mayweed
24. Wild Carrot

Red shale path to Bachelors Bridge

25. Rough Chervil
26. Cleavers
27. Garlic Mustard
28. Hedge Woundwort

Bachelors Bridge area

29. Fools Watercress
30. Watercress
31. White Bryony

Red shale path to Malcolms Scrape

32. Meadowsweet
33. Waterpepper
34. Greater Bindweed (other side of brook)

Malcolms Scrape area

35. Crassula Helmslii
36. Common Duckweed
37. Soft Hornwort?
38. Common Reed
39. Water Forget-me-not (new awaiting ID)

Red shale path to Main Pond

40. Bush Vetch
41. Prickly Sow Thistle

Main Pond area

42. Amphibious Bistort
43. Hard Rush
44. Jointed Rush
45. Common Knapweed
46. Spear Thistle
47. Couch Grass
48. Perennial Rye Grass
49. Clustered Dock
50. Watermint
51. Yellow Flag Iris
52. Hemlock
53. Tufted Vetch
54. Hedge Mustard

Cycle Path down to Bachelors Bridge

55. Smooth Sow Thistle
56. Horsetail
57. Smooth Hawksbeard
58. Mugwort
59. Ragwort
60. Salad Burnet
61. Self-heal
62. Cut-leaved Geranium
63. Lesser Stichwort

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Flower Walk, 3 July 2002