An updated Wild Flower List

Wild Flowers seen during 2026 include:

Alexanders

Annual Meadow-Grass

Annual Mercury

Bluebell

Bristly Oxtongue

Buck's-Horn Plantain

Coltsfoot

Common Chickweed

Common Cornsalad

Common Field Speedwell

Common Fumitory

Common Stork's-Bill

Common Whitlowgrass

Cornsalad

Cow Parsley

Daisy

Dandelion

Dog's Mercury

Dove's-Foot Crane's-Bill

Early Dog Violet

Field Forget-me-Not

Four-leaved Allseed

Greater Celandine

Green Alkanet

Groundsel

Hairy Bittercress

Hart's Tongue Fern

Henbit Dead-Nettle

Ivy-Leaved Speedwell

Ivy-Leaved Toadflax

Jersey Cudweed

Lesser Celandine 

Lords and Ladies (both Arum maculated and Arum Italicum)

Musk Stork's-Bill

Navelwort

Pellitory-of-the-Wall

Petty Spurge

Red Dead-Nettle

Red Dead-Nettle (white variety)

Reflex Stonecrop 

Rue-Leaved Saxifrage

Shepherd's-Purse

Shining Crane's-Bill

Spotted Medick

Springbeauty

Sticky Mouse-Ear

Sweet Violet

Thale Cress 

Three Cornered Leek

White Dead-Nettle

White Stonecrop

Wild Daffodil

Wood Anemone

An Updated Lichen &c. List

Lichens seen during 2026 include:

Athallia holocarpa sens. lat. (formerly Caloplaca holocarpa agg.)

Calagoya decipiens (formerly Caloplaca decipiens)

Calogaya pusilla (formerly Caloplaca saxicola)

Candelariella aurella

Candelariella vitallina

Flavoparmelia soredians 

Flavoplaca citrina sens. lat. (formerly Caloplaca cortina agg.)

Hyperphyscia adglutinata

Lepraria sp. 

Myriolecis albescens (formerly Lecanora albescens)     

Myriolecis dispersa (formerly Lecanora disperssa)

Phaeophyscia nigricans

Phaeophyscia orbicularis

Physcia adscendens

Physcia caesia

Physcia tenella

Protoblastenia rupestris

Protoparmeliopsis muralis (formerly Lecanora muralis)

Rusavskia elegans (formerly Xanthorua elegans): such an aristocratic sounding name

Punctelia subrudecta s. str.

Rindona oleae

Xanthoria calcicola

Xanthoria parietina

Xanthoria polycarpa

Erythricium aurantiacum (a lichenicolous fungus seen on P. adscendens)

We are starting to make progress with our 2026' Targets

 We are currently focusing on Lichens: Lichens seen during the first days of 2026 include:

Athallia holocarpa sens. lat. (formerly Caloplaca holocarpa agg.)

Calagoya decipiens (formerly Caloplaca decipiens)

Calogaya pusilla (formerly Caloplaca saxicola)

Candelariella vitallina

Flavoplaca citrina sens. lat. (formerly Caloplaca cortina agg.)

Phaeophyscia orbicularis

Physcia caesia

Physcia tenella

Protoblastenia rupestris

Protoparmeliopsis muralis (formerly Lecanora muralis)

the aristocratic sounding Rusavskia elegans (formerly Xanthorua elegans)

Xanthoria parietina

Our first invertebrate of the year was a Buff/White-Tailed Bumblebee