Skip to content
  • Facebook
  • Flickr

Sussex Botanical Recording Society

Exploring the plants of Sussex since 1965

  • Home
  • Get involved
    • Join SBRS
    • Recording
    • Field Meetings
  • Projects
    • The Flora of Sussex
    • A New Churchyard Survey
  • News
    • Latest sightings
    • Field meeting reports
    • General news
  • Resources
    • Gallery
    • Sussex plant records
    • Books and web resources
    • Publications
    • Newsletters
    • Articles
    • Links
    • Documents and slides
    • Constitution
  • About Us
  • Contacts

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.

Picture of Red Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis angustifolia)

Red Hemp-nettle at Malling Down

During a routine grazing assessment of Malling Down today, I decided to have a quick look for the mythical Red Hemp-nettle that has not been seen there for well over […]

7 August 20177 August 2017 Graeme Lyons Latest sightings
Picture of Parentucellia viscosa (Yellow Bartsia)

Beddingham landfill

Along with Helen Proctor I have found a new population of Parentucellia viscosa (Yellow Bartsia), located on a reclaimed part of the former Beddingham landfill site. More than 50 flowering […]

10 July 201710 July 2017 Peter Smith Latest sightings
Picture of Parietaria judaica (Pellitory-of-the-Wall)

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 […]

3 May 20173 May 2017 Wendy Tagg Latest sightings
Picture of Myosurus minimus (Mousetail)

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. […]

2 May 20172 May 2017 Jacqueline Rose Latest sightings
Picture of Paris quadrifolia (Herb Paris)

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 […]

19 April 201720 April 2017 Dawn Nelson Latest sightings
Picture of Ulota phyllantha

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 […]

28 March 201728 March 2017 Brad Scott Latest sightings
Picture of Cochlearica danica (Danish Scurvygrass)

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 […]

27 March 201727 March 2017 Peter Smith Latest sightings
Picture of Tussilago farfara (Colt's-foot)

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. […]

21 March 201721 March 2017 John Patmore Latest sightings
Picture of Petasites japonicus × fragrans, Borde Hill

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 […]

9 March 20177 December 2017 Dawn Nelson Latest sightings
Picture of Euphorbia prostrata

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 […]

23 February 201723 February 2017 Jacqueline Rose Latest sightings

Posts navigation

Older posts
News
  • The Flora of Sussex will be published February 2018

    23 September 2017
  • All taxa list and BSBI recorders

    11 May 2017
  • Joseph Hooker at Kew

    5 April 2017
  • Instructions for recording churchyards and cemeteries in 2017

    20 March 2017
  • South-East England Lichen Group Programme Spring 2017

    17 March 2017
Latest Sightings
  • Beddingham landfill

    Beddingham landfill

    10 July 2017
  • Mum to the rescue!

    Mum to the rescue!

    3 May 2017
  • Mousetail (Myosurus minimus)

    Mousetail (Myosurus minimus)

    2 May 2017
Gallery

View all pictures in the Gallery on Flickr

Past Field Meetings
  • Cowden and Holtye

    Cowden and Holtye

    6 January 2018
  • Crawley Down and other churchyards

    Crawley Down and other churchyards

    6 January 2018
  • Shoreham Beach

    Shoreham Beach

    8 January 2017
  • Seven Sisters Country Park

    Seven Sisters Country Park

    8 January 2017
  • Firehills, Hastings Country Park

    Firehills, Hastings Country Park

    8 January 2017
Hectads
SU70, SU71, SU72, SU80, SU81, SU82, SU83, SU90, SU91, SU92, SU93, SZ79, SZ89, SZ99, TQ00, TQ01, TQ02, TQ10, TQ11, TQ12, TQ13, TQ20, TQ21, TQ22, TQ23, TQ30, TQ31, TQ32, TQ33, TQ40, TQ41, TQ42, TQ43, TQ44, TQ50, TQ51, TQ52, TQ53, TQ54, TQ60, TQ61, TQ62, TQ63, TQ70, TQ71, TQ72, TQ80, TQ81, TQ82, TQ91, TQ92, TV49, TV59, TV69
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: NewsAnchor by aThemes.