From Shoots to Roots: revealing the above and below ground structure of meadow plants
Jim Pearson: The Purple Fumitory
Purple Ramping-fumitory is a nationally scarce and endemic to the UK, the only place it grows naturally in the world. It is an annual plant which used to be widespread in the mixed farming and arable areas of Britain. However, during the last 50 years it has undergone a drastic decline throughout its former range...
Rob Duffy: Sidewalk Botany Report January-March 2018
The year kicked off with the New Year Survey of flowering plants of the Liverpool Loop Line, which didn’t yield much, but what was quite inspiring on a cold, wet, afternoon, to this relative fern novice, was the abundance of Soft Shield Fern shuttlecocks (Polystichum setiferum), in the Broad Green “dell”. I posted a...
Rob Duffy: Report of the 2017 Botanical Survey of the Liverpool Loopline
The Loopline had been surveyed, in the Childwall section (Liverpool 16), by Howard Harris (Liverpool Botanical Society) some years earlier and subsequently, by himself, leading the Liverpool Botanical Society (LBS), in the summer of 2014, in the same section, where a party of 12 listed some 170 taxa. ‘Sustrans’ held a ‘BioBlitz’ at West Derby...