Wednesday 11 September 2019

To the Upper Bedon Stream and around the Holly Hill Open Space

We walked down to the Upper Bedon Stream and then did a circuit of the Holly Hill Open Space before returning Home.

Wild Flowers seen during the Walk included:

Barnyard Grass viz.



Biting Stonecrop (assumed)
Black Bindweed
Black Horehound
Broad-Leaved Everlasting-Pea
Buck's-Horn Plantain
California Poppy (Self-Seeded) 
Cleavers
Common Chickweed viz.


Common Knotgrass
Common Mallow
Common Ragwort
Common Stork's-Bill
Cow Parsley 
Creeping Cinquefoil
Creeping Thistle viz.


Dandelion
Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill
Dwarf Mallow
Field Bindweed
Field Madder
Four-Leaved Allseed
Great Willowherb viz.


Greater Plantain
Green Alkanet
Groundsel
Hare's-Foot Clover
Herb Robert
Ivy Broomrape
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Jersey Cudweed
Lady's Bedstraw
Mouse-Ear Hawkweed
Pellitory-of-the-Wall
Petty Spurge
Procumbent Pearlwort
Purple-Leaved Procumbent Yellow-Sorrel
Red Dead-Nettle
Red Valerian
Ribwort Plantain
Scarlet Pimpernel viz.


Sow-Thistle
Spear Thistle
Spotted Spurge
Sweet Alyssum (Self-Seeded)
Weld viz.


White Bryony
White Dead-Nettle
and Yarrow

Butterflies seen included [i] a Brown Argus Butterfly beside the Upper Bedon Stream and [ii] a Common Blue Butterfly, three Small Copper Butterflies and a Small Heath Butterfly on the Holly Hill Open Space:




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