BOTANY
The Botany Group holds its meetings every other Tuesday from end of April to mid August usually for the whole day. The meetings vary from those sites very close to Grassington eg Kilnsey park, the banks of the Wharfe, to further afield eg the west coast for dune systems, reserves in Cumbria and our National Natures Reserves as around Ingleborough. In this way we can become familiar with plants that are not on our doorstep and sites away from limestone grassland.
Our aim is to be able to identify the most common plants, and gradually learn the less common ones as those from the board walk at Malham or the Orchids at Kilnsey Park. We also take an interest in the different Grasses, Sedges and Rushes. Often birds and butterflies and other wildlife catch our attention.
At any meeting we record all the plants we see – if we can! – providing a useful record for further visits to the same site.
We are a friendly group and welcome complete beginners and those with more experience.
VISIT REPORTS
Autumn and its fruits
Despite the Beech tree having been described as a non-native tree in the north of England, I think it is my favourite tree. There is the soft lime green of
Botany Update 17th September 2020
There is still some colour on the road sides and river banks, but most plants are looking bedraggled and windswept. There is the yellow of the Sow-Thistles and Ragwort, Blue
Snowdrops Gilanthus nivalis
Did you know that there is an enthusiasm called Snowdrop Mania - galanthophiles -which has developed over the last ten years? I knew there were variations on the standard form
Autumn and its fruits
Despite the Beech tree having been described as a non-native tree in the north of England, I think it is my favourite tree. There is the soft lime green of
Botany Update 17th September 2020
There is still some colour on the road sides and river banks, but most plants are looking bedraggled and windswept. There is the yellow of the Sow-Thistles and Ragwort, Blue
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