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Botany Group - 8th July 2025
by Merryn Dineley - 14:07 on 25 July 2025
Stromness reservoir - 8th July 2025
The weather stayed dry and wind free as we walked round the reservoir then onto the lower slopes of the heath above the water. Thank you everyone for the knowledge sharing and the camaraderie. Julie
Plant list -
- Yellow rattle
- Tufted vetch
- Cats ear
- Marsh and common ragwort
- Red clover
- Angelica
- Sorrel
- Ling, Bell and Cross leaved heath heathers
- Meadowsweet
- Marsh marigold (not in flower)
- Northern marsh, and Heath spotted orchid
- Tormentil
- Meadow vetchling
- Devils bit scabious (not in flower yet)
- Field horsetail
- Common cotton grass
- Crowberry
- Primrose (not in flower)
- Sneezewort
- Heath and possibly Marsh bedstraw
- Mouse ear
- Common chickweed
- Marsh willowherb
- Mint
- Marsh pennywort
- Balfour willow (one small bush growing over the water)
- Marsh thistle
- Marsh cinquefoil
- Spearwort
- Ragged robin
- Water horsetail and common horsetail
- PearlwortEyebrights - Arctic, and Slender
- Flag iris (brome?)
- Alpine meadow rue
- Slender St Johns Wort
- Creeping willow
- Thyme
- Fairy flax
- Self heal
- Bog asphodel
- Sundew
- Butterwort
- Grass of Parnassus
- Common lousewort
- Oxeye daisy
- Twablade
- Cleavers
- Coltsfoot
- Grasses, sedges, rushes and mosses
- Vivaparous fescue
- Mat grass
- Purple moorgrass
- Wavy hair grass
- Floating sweet grass
- Deer grass
- Green rib sedge
- Flea sedge
- Common sedge
- Star sedge
- Glaucous sedge
- Yellow sedge
- Soft rush
- Compact rush
- Spike rush
- Fir clubmoss
Plus -
- Blue tailed damsel fly
- Magpie moth
- Tiger moth?
- Meadow brown butterfly
- Emperor moth caterpillar
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