The Flora of Sussex

After years of recording effort by members of the Sussex Botanical Recording Society, The Flora of Sussex was published in February 2018. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to it.

The cover of The Flora of Sussex

Sussex, with its long coastline, chalk downs, rivers, woods and heaths, possesses an unusual diversity of habitats. Long known for the richness of its flora, many species are otherwise rare in south-east England, others reach the northern edge of their European range in the county and an ever-increasing number of new arrivals are becoming established.

This comprehensive new Flora has been compiled by the Sussex Botanical Recording Society to update, expand and revise the Sussex Plant Atlas published in 1980 and is the first major account of the county’s flora since Wolley-Dod’s work of 1937.  Around 2,750 taxa are described,  many accompanied by tetrad-based maps showing their distribution within the county. The Species Accounts are prefaced by detailed introductory chapters on geology and soils, habitats and vegetation, management and conservation, changes in the flora and past botanical activity in the county in order to provide an ecological and historical context.  The text is fully illustrated throughout with photographs of characteristic Sussex plants and habitats.

An essential work of reference not only for  botanists and ecologists but also for conservation organisations, local authorities, planners and land owners, and will be read and consulted with pleasure by all those with an interest in the natural history and countryside of Sussex and the south-east.

Dipsacus pilosus from the Flora of Sussex

ISBN: 978-1-874357-81-0

Size: 325x252mm

Pages: viii+428pp

Price: £45

Order from Pisces Publications, or SBRS members should send a cheque to the Treasurer

The book has been prepared by the Flora Working Group: Frances Abraham, Mary Briggs, Paul Harmes, Arthur Hoare, Alan Knapp, Trevor Lording, Brad Scott, Mike Shaw, David Streeter and Nicholas Sturt

Flora of Sussex Succisa pratensis