Friday 21 February 2020

To the Poplar Dock Marina and the East India Dock Basin

To the Poplar Dock Marina in search, primarily, of Wild Flowers: afterwards Home, via the nearby East India Dock Basin.

[i] the Poplar Dock Marina and Surrounding area (Grid Ref: TQ3880):

Wild Flower' Species seen included:

Common Field-Speedwell
Cow Parsley
Creeping Thistle
Green Alkanet
Hart's-Tongue Fern
Jersey Cudweed
Parsley-Piert viz.


Pearlwort sp. viz.


Purple Toadflax
Red Dead-Nettle
Round-Leaved Crane's-Bill
Rue-Leaved Saxifrage
Stinking Iris
Stonecrop sp. (to be identified) viz.


and Yarrow

We will need to return later in the year to hopefully see the Spotted Spurge.

[ii] the East India Dock Basin and Surrounding area (Grid Refs: TQ3880 and TQ3980):

Wild Flower' Species seen included:

Black Medick (flowering on a small grassed area beside Blackwall Way and the A1261) viz.


Common Chickweed
Common Mallow
Cow Parsley
Greater Celandine
Jersey Cudweed (beside East India DLR Station area) viz.


Red Dead-Nettle
Small-Flowered Crane's-Bill (on a small grassed area beside Blackwall Way and the A1261)
Spurge sp. (to be identified)
Sticky Mouse-Ear (on a small grassed area beside Blackwall Way and the A1261) viz.


Stinking Iris
Sun Spurge
and Yarrow

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