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...
The aims of the workshop were to develop skills in identifying British native grass species, recognise the most widely occurring grasses and to familiarise ourselves with reference book keys and herbarium specimens. Peter Gateley, local Ecologist recommended at least 2 guides for starters in grass identification: FSC “Guide to Common Grasses” C.E. Hubbard, “Grasses”, Third...
Philip H. Smith, August 2016 Introduction Together with the adjacent Seaforth Docks complex (now Liverpool Free Port), Crosby Coastal Park was reclaimed from the Mersey Estuary in the late 1960s. The section studied here extends south from Crosby Baths to the Freeport fence (Fig. 1). It has an elongated triangular shape about 1.6km long with...