Category: Latest sightings
These are posts submitted by members about any plants they have observed recently. Items must not include precise details of the location of the plant(s), but will be tagged with the hectad, so observations in the same area can easily be grouped together on the website, along with the field meeting reports.
Such posts can take a variety of forms, depending on the author’s preferences, for example:
- A few sentences about a specific plant, and why it is interesting to add it to Latest Sightings (eg new record for a tetrad, unusual habitat, etc);
- A slightly longer piece about a walk you may have had in the field;
- A couple of paragraphs about a plant which, though common, you may not have seen before, or have just learned to identify;
- Or any other form which you care to adopt!
Each item will require a title, at least one picture, and some text. Please send all submissions to webmaster@sussexflora.org.uk.
Mum to the rescue!
This was my second visit to Holy Cross (Uckfield) for the churchyard survey and this time I was on my own. I was doing fine. I have a fair amount […]
Mousetail (Myosurus minimus)
On 21 April 2014 Sian Matthews and I found this species south of Crowhurst in arable farmland, a few plants beside the public footpath at a farm vehicle turning point. […]
Exploring the north scarp in spring
The first of the smaller half day local meetings was on the north scarp slope of the downs on Tuesday 18 April in glorious sunshine. Highlights were the Tilia platyphyllos […]
Bryophyte bonanza
I will resist the quite laudable urge to post loads of pictures of mosses and liverworts to the SBRS blog, but there were some requests to see the slides I […]
Spring greens
Cochlearica danica (Danish Scurvygrass) is a halophyte that has spread rapidly along the salted verges of major roads in this country in recent years. Here it is greeting the spring […]
Filius ante patrem
‘Filius ante patrem’ was once used as a name for Tussilago farfara (Colt’s-foot) meaning ‘son-before-father’. The bright yellow flowers first emerge in late February on Brighton Greenway local wildlife site. […]
Arthur’s Butterbur
On Saturday 4 March the SBRS AGM was held as usual at Staplefield. I live right over near the Hampshire border and Jill Oalkley lives over the border; so we […]
Euphorbia prostrata
Walking through Hastings Old Town on 3 October 2014 I spotted a tiny unfamiliar plant growing in the sandy crack between a garden wall and the paved track used by […]
Introduction to mosses
A couple of days ago I attended a one day course at Woods Mill, the headquarters of the Sussex Wildlife Trust, which was run by our society. Had it been […]
The New Year Plant Hunt in Sussex
The sixth New Year Plant Hunt organised by the BSBI took place between 1-4 January, and many Sussex botanists were out in force. The objective is to record native and […]