Beckley

Field meeting reports

Meeting date: 3 September 2011

(Leader: Roy Wells)

Four members turned up for the field meeting at Bixley Wood, Beckley. The quality of those four shone through as they managed to bring the number of records above 300 in two tetrads and to find the elusive Anagallis minima (Chaffweed) in both. A fine specimen of Quercus petraea (Sessile Oak) was seen and Quercus x rosacea, its hybrid with the Penduculate Oak, was also found. However to their chagrin, despite diligent searching not even one plant of Capsella bursa-pastoris (Shepherd’s-purse) was seen, leaving this as a feature of the Missing Common Species List.