Common Reed Board Walk. Photo: Christine Bell.

In a habitat such as this we always have discussions about the marsh plants because we are not so familiar with them. We identified the Marsh Willowherb Epilobium palustre, the Lesser and Marsh Stitchwort Stellari graminea and palustris and the Fen Bedstraw Galium uliginosum.

Highlights were finding the Round-leaved Sundew Drosera rotundifolia and Cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos on the shorter turf, and re-finding the diminutive Common Wintergreen Pylora minor, a plant we rarely see. There were still a few spikes of the lovely Bog Ashphodel Narthecium ossifragum, and there were groups of Grass of Parnassus Parnassia palustris.
So while inevitably at this time of year, many plants were past their flowering time, we had had a thoroughly enjoyable botany meeting.
Christine Bell.

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