ID Guides

We are continuing to build a resource of identification aids here

1. Bob Leaney's visual keys and other workshop notes

2. Mick Crawley's snowdrop identification guide (pdf)

3. Matt Parratt's conifer workshop and resources

4. Brian Eversham's elm workshop September 2021

Recent Sightings

Venus's-looking-glass

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Growing along the edge of a field of broad beans in Bawburgh.

Hybrid Yellow Bedstraw

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This hybrid Bedstraw (Galium verum x G. album) was growing in a variety of shades from cream to primrose with both parents on a chalk bank in west Norfolk.

Wall Bedstraw in short grassland

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We were surprised to find Wall Bedstraw, which is more typical of old walls, on some short breck-like grassland near the car park at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

Rough Clover

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In an area of short grassland near the car park at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, we found Rough Clover growing close to Bur Medick (Medicago minima).

An unusual variety of Bee Orchid

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A single spike of this unusual form of Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera var. belgarum) was discovered near the car park at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital.