Spotted by Volunteer Stephanie. First logged 18/06/20 Polyporus squamosus, common names Dryad’s Saddle, Scaly Polypore, Pheasants Back Status Common, found on deciduous trees and stumps. Season Start May Season End Aug Details This is the largest capped mushroom in the UK and can until become so heavy it can no […]
Flora & Fauna
Spotted by Volunteer Stephanie. First logged 02/07/20.Earliest Submitted record by Volunteer Annabel (Before 2020 project began) Aglais urticae, common name Small Tortoiseshell Status Widespread throughout Britain and Ireland, commonly found in gardens. Size and Family Family: Nymphalids Size: Medium/Large Wing Span Range (male to female): 50-56mm Conservation Status […]
Spotted by Volunteer Stephanie. First logged 14/05/20Earliest Submitted record by Volunteer Annabel (Before 2020 project began) Song Thrush Information can be found here on the RSPB website. A familiar and popular garden songbird whose numbers have declined markedly on farmland and in towns and cities. It’s smaller and browner than […]
Spotted by Volunteer Camilla. First logged 20/04/20 Lamium Purpureum, common name Purple Deadnettle. Family Lamium Status Commonly Widespread grass and meadow edge plant. Details A member of the mint family this plant resembles nettles at first glance but with a softer (and sting free) design and clear orchid like purple […]
Spotted by Volunteer Stephanie. First logged 2/7/20 Trametes versicolor, common names: Turkey Tail Status Commonly Widespread fungus growing on dead wood. Details The turkeytail is a small, tough, bracket fungus that grows in tiered layers on dead wood – mainly hardwood, such as beech or oak. It is very common […]
Geranium Robertianum, common names: herb robert, stinking bob, wild geranium Family Geraniaceae Status Commonly Widespread woodland and grassland plant. Details A low-growing plant, Herb-robert has five-petalled, pink flowers, and reddish stems. The deeply divided, lobed leaves are also tinged with red. Ten Acres Habitation Geranium Robertianum is found on the […]
Plantago Lanceolata, common names Plantain, Ribwort, Narrowleaf Plantain. Family Plantaginaceae Status Commonly Widespread typically on cultivated land. Details Plantago Lanceolata has spear-shaped leaves that form a rosette at the base of the plant. Short stems grow from its leaves, with compact flower heads that display protruding white stamens. The flower […]
Spotted by Volunteer Stephanie. First logged 25/04/20 Arum Maculatum, common name Lords and Ladies, Cuckoo Pint. Family Araceae Status Commonly Widespread woodland plant. Genus Arum are tuberous perennials with simple, arrow-head shaped leaves and tiny flowers hidden, at the base of a yellow or purple, club-shaped spadix, within a showy, […]
