Cuckmere Haven
Meeting date: 3 June 2023 (Leader: Peter Smith) Preliminary research for our planned field meeting at Chyngton Brooks showed the Brooks to be under occupation by a large family herd […]
St Dunstan’s Farm meadows
Meeting date: 27 May 2023 (Leaders: Judy Clark and Jacqueline Rose) Blue sky, warm sun and not too much wind, not your usual bank holiday weekend weather but perfect for […]
Markstakes Common
Meeting date: 22 April 2023 (Leader: Jacqui Hutson) After several days of damp and dreary weather, Saturday 22 April promised to be better. After a grey start the sun shone […]
East Worthing
Meeting date: 15 April 2023 (Leader: Nick Sturt) The last time the SBRS held a meeting in this vicinity was in 2000: at that time reports of the sudden march […]
New Year Plant Hunt
As many of you are probably aware by now, the BSBI has been running a recording exercise in the days around New Year’s Day – from 30th December to the […]
Cynoglossum officinale (Hound’s-tongue)
Nick Sturt pointed this out to me when we came across the rosette leaves of this biennial in chalk grassland. The leaves smell like peanuts when crushed. The books describe […]
Centaurea nigra vs Centaurea debeauxii
Many of us know about C. debeauxii (Chalk Knapweed), but few of us have the confidence to identify it. There are very good reasons for this. These same reasons apply […]
Cardamine hirsuta vs Cardamine flexuosa
We soon learn that one of the distinguishing differences between this pair is the number of stamens. One usually has four and the other six. Remembering such dichotamous features can […]
Polypodium vulgare vs Polypodium interjectum
While these species do exhibit morphological differences, the reality is that identification can only be made with a high level of confidence if the sporangia are examined under magnification (usually […]
Autumn Get-together 2023
It’s not every day, at least in Sussex, that you encounter in flower the three species of Gorse which are native to the British Isles, but thanks to our President […]