"For now we are young let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see" Neutral Milk Hotel.

Saturday 6 January 2018

New Year Plant Hunt in Hunstanton

The BSBI's New Year Plant Hunt is in its seventh year. The idea is to find as many species in flower as possible in a maximum period of three hours. Here's what I found in flower around Hunstanton in 2 hours on January 1st 2018.

Tanacetum parthenium Feverfew
Matricaria discoidea Pineappleweed
Lamium album White Dead-nettle
Bellis perennis Daisy
Euphorbia peplus Petty Spurge
Malva sylvestris Common Mallow
Hordeum murinum Wall Barley
Hypochaeris radicata Cat's-ear
Silene latifolia White Campion
Calendula officinalis Pot Marigold
Crepis capillaris Smooth Hawk's-beard
Lamium purpureum Red Dead-nettle
Mercurialis annua Annual Mercury
Poa annua Annual Meadow-grass
Stellaria media Common Chickweed
Achillea millefolium Yarrow
Cerastium fontanum Common Mouse-ear
Dactylis glomerata Cock's-foot
Picris echioides Bristly Oxtongue
Trifolium pratense Red Clover
Tripleurospermum inodorum Scentless Mayweed
Veronica persica Common Field-speedwell
Urtica urens Small Nettle
Senecio vulgaris Groundsel
Euphorbia helioscopia Sun Spurge
Taraxacum Dandelion
Hedera helix Common Ivy
Capsella bursa-pastoris Shepherd's-purse
Genista monspessulana Montpellier Broom
Sonchus oleraceus Smooth Sow-thistle
Senecio squalidus Oxford Ragwort
Smyrnium olusatrum Alexanders

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