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u3a Botany Group - Yesnaby - 7 July, 2026
by Julie Temple - 22:03 on 07 July 2026
Primula Scotica were flowering in abundance and the beautiful Grass of Parnassus was, as always, a joy to see. The Frog Orchid evaded us but there was plenty more to see.
We made our way from the car park over the heath, down to the beach, over to the burn and then back up the main path.
Plant list in the order in which we saw them:
- Sea milkwort, and later we saw the blue (heath or common?) milkwort
- Babbington Orache
- Mouse ear
- Thrift
- Sea arrow grass (later we saw Marsh arrowgrass)
- Sea plantain
- White and red clover
- Birdsfoot trefoil
- Common sedge
- Glaucous sedge
- Eye bright (not sure which this first one was but later spotted one that might have been Foola Eyebright)
- Common bent grass
- Thyme
- Kidney vetch
- Ling heather and then bell heather
- Creeping willow
- Self heal
- Tormentil
- Ribwort plantain
- Crowberry
- Devilsbit scaboius (not in flower)
- Angelica
- Spear thistle
- Sea mayweed
- Sea campion
- Sorrel
- Autumn hawkbit
- Hogweed
- Greater sea spurry
- Cleavers
- Scurvy grass
- Scotch lovage
- Flag Iris
- Silver weed (in flower)
- Meadowsweet
- Tufted vetch
- Marsh cinquefoil
- Northern marsh orchid
- Ragwort
- Marsh marigold (not in flower)
- Watermint
- Ragged robin
- Pennywort in abundance
- Marsh thistle
- Jointed rush
Grass of Parnassus
Greater Sea Spurry
Sea Arrowgrass (yellow)
Marsh Arrowgrass (red)
Jointed Rush (blue)
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