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Common Name
Sycamore
Yarrow
Ground-elder
Horse-chestnut
Common Bent
Creeping Bent
Water-plantain
Garlic Mustard
Alder
Marsh Foxtail
Meadow Foxtail
Barren Brome
Cow Parsley
Fool's-water-cress
Thale Cress
Lesser Burdock
Horse-radish
False Oat-grass
Mugwort
Daisy
Butterfly-bush
Large Bindweed
Shepherd's-purse
Remote Sedge
Common Centaury
Common Mouse-ear
Rosebay Willowherb
Fat-hen
Fig-leaved Goosefoot
Enchanter's-nightshade
Creeping Thistle
Spear Thistle
Canadian Fleabane
Lesser Swine-cress
Hazel
Hawthorn
Smooth Hawk's-beard
Common Spotted-orchid
Carrot
Foxglove
Male-fern
Common Couch
Great Willowherb
Broad-leaved Willowherb
Hoary Willowherb
Sun Spurge
Beech
Japanese Knotweed
Red Fescue
Fig
Garden Strawberry
Ash
Cleavers
Hedge Bedstraw
Cut-leaved Crane's-bill
Dove's-foot Crane's-bill
Herb-Robert
Wood Avens
Reed Sweet-grass
Marsh Cudweed
Common Ivy
Hogweed
Yorkshire-fog
Imperforate St John's-wort
Perforate St John's-wort
Cat's-ear
Holly
Indian Balsam
Compact Rush
Soft-rush
Hard Rush
Red Dead-nettle
Nipplewort
Meadow Vetchling
Purple Toadflax
Perennial Rye-grass
Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil
Musk-mallow
Pineappleweed
Scented Mayweed
Black Medick
Ribbed Melilot
Dog's Mercury
Red Bartsia
Redshank
Reed Canary-grass
Timothy
Ribwort Plantain
Greater Plantain
Annual Meadow-grass
Rough Meadow-grass
Equal-leaved Knotgrass
Knotgrass
Selfheal
Common Fleabane
Pedunculate Oak
Meadow Buttercup
Creeping Buttercup
Creeping Yellow-cress
Bramble
Raspberry
Broad-leaved Dock
Wood Dock
Annual Pearlwort
Procumbent Pearlwort
Elder
Hoary Ragwort
Common Ragwort
Groundsel
Red Campion
Hedge Mustard
Bittersweet
Prickly Sow-thistle
Smooth Sow-thistle
Rowan
Branched Bur-reed
Marsh Woundwort
Lesser Stitchwort
Common Chickweed
Snowberry
Feverfew
Dandelion
Goat's-beard
Lesser Trefoil
Red Clover
White Clover
Scentless Mayweed
Colt's-foot
Common Reedmace
Gorse
Common Nettle
Common Field-speedwell
Guelder-rose
Tufted Vetch
Hairy Tare
Common Vetch
White stemmed bramble
Hairy Sedge
Round leaved Mint
Wall Lettuce
Hen bit Dead Nettle
Southern Marsh Orchid
Reed Canary-grass
Giant Funnel
Ponds & Fields of Roby 9th July 2011 Leader: Rob Duffy
Twenty persons gathered at the NWC Car Park on a fairly good day for this summer. Immediate attention was drawn to the burgeoning Catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides) tree in the car park –origin unknown, as not apparently introduced by NWC staff and an unlikely place for an ornamental tree of which it is the only representative! The party headed through Court Hey Park taking in the newly sown “pond” perimeter on the border with Thornton Road. A riot of colour and a triumph in restoring a featureless depression prone to flooding.The party was led out of the Park via the foetid, but much-loved, brook, into the edge of suburbia and onto the derelict grounds of the Coronation sports and social club-an all too familiar feature of today’s urban landscape.This led onto the huge wheat field which was dotted with damp hollows, manure heaps and overgrown and derelict ponds. Surprisingly, the water flowing through the field to Belle Vale was crystal clear!Lunch was had at the M62 bridge next to the largest and clearest pond in the area. Over the bridge and up Carr Lane the party came to the heart of the never-to-be, borough of Roby, but there was a thriving medieval market here. Down the slope to Bowring Park, the party were impressed with its truncated driveway’s Plane (Platanus x acerifolia) trees but less impressed that they were unable to claim a cup of tea amongst the throng in the stable block! The ornamental and walled gardens were sadly derelict and their future is uncertain. Two Dawn Redwoods (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) guarded the entrance to the golf course, allegedly the first municipal course in England. In the sunken garden a Wellingtonia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) stood proud and alone in the centre but coming out onto the walled garden it was joined by two companions at either end. Amongst these giants, Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima), Tree Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster lactus?) and, clinging to life up the 16 foot wall, a dishevelled Fig ( Ficus carica) tree grew. Further down, the party proceeded to the motorway roundabout. Half the party hoofed it back to the NWC while the other half investigated the mound Vera Gordon had taken the LBS to in June 1999. I noted in my diary that there were Bee Orchids (Ophrys apifera)and Vera was very proud of these (there does not appear to have been a Parnassia report). Unfortunately, the numbers and types of orchids seen was very disappointing but there was enough other stuff of interest.
Down, further still, into Court Hey Park and the NWC, only six made it to the café; happy (I hope) but relieved.
Rob Duffy
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