Rare Plant Register for Huntingdonshire - Botanical Society of the ...

Conington Airfield TL178870 2005 (WM)
Conington Fen, Eternity Hall Farm TL218861 2007 (PS)
Darlows Farm (Great Fen Project) TL2285
10
TL2286
2006 (DB)
2006 (DB)
Little Stukeley, bridleway east of Low Road TL208746 2009 (DB)
Middle Farm TL2284 (monad) 2011 (MiB)
Orton Pit SSSI (CP) TL16189357 2011 (DB)
This species is frequent over much of East Anglia but its distribution becomes more scattered
in Huntingdonshire and the rest of Britain. It had a recent brief boom in numbers during the
early stages of the Great Fen Project but is probably now declining in this area as more
permanent vegetation establishes. At Little Stukeley, thousands of plants formed a dense
carpet beneath a crop of oil-seed rape.
Apium graveolens L.
Wild Celery
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (2 sites, 2 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Paxton Pits, A1 North Lake TL19366400 2008 (DB)
Stibbington Pits Nature Reserve TL088993 2003 (TW)
Very rare and the few known populations seem to show an affinity for old gravel pits.
Arabis hirsuta (L.) Scop.
Hairy Rock-cress
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC,
Compartment 80
Site Grid Reference Last Record
TL232835 (centroid for
compartment)
2008 (MM)
Rare but persisting in an area of grassland encroached by carr woodland. It has been known
from Woodwalton Fen since 1883.
Artemisia absinthium L.
Wormwood
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Alconbury, Great North Road TL19397669 2011 (MiB)
This species was considered to be ‘very common’ in the Fens in the 18 th Century when it had
an economic value (Wells, 2003) but it has been in long term decline since then. Wells (2003)
mapped only a handful of locations and the above record represents the only known post-
1970’s population.