Rare Plant Register for Huntingdonshire - Botanical Society of the ...
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Godmanchester Eastside Common SSSI TL26847226 2010 (DB)<br />
Houghton Meadow, River Ouse TL287715 2009 (BS)<br />
Norman Cross Pits TL162908 2010 (NC)<br />
Portholme SSSI & SAC, River Ouse TL23337039 2011 (DB)<br />
St Neots Common SSSI, The Holt TL18296143 2010 (DB)<br />
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC,<br />
Compartment 47<br />
59<br />
TL22998492 2010 (MM)<br />
This species is rare in <strong>Huntingdonshire</strong> and neighbouring counties. The recent finds in<br />
<strong>Huntingdonshire</strong> mirror similar recent finds elsewhere, <strong>for</strong> example in Northamptonshire and<br />
Cambridgeshire. Is this species recovering lost ground or extending its range?<br />
Oenan<strong>the</strong> fistulosa L.<br />
Tubular Water-dropwort<br />
National Status: Vulnerable, BAP County Status: Scarce (6 sites, 7 tetrads)<br />
Site Grid Reference Last Record<br />
Bluntisham, Berry Fen TL377744 2008 (JM)<br />
Bluntisham Fen, Brownshill Staunch TL368724 2008 (JM)<br />
St Ives, Willhorn Meadow TL312708 2001 (RE)<br />
St Neots Common SSSI, Lammas Ditch TL185615 2010 (DB)<br />
Upwood Meadows SSSI, Bentley Meadow TL251826 2011 (DB)<br />
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC:<br />
Compartment 47<br />
TL22998486<br />
2011 (MM)<br />
This is a species <strong>of</strong> fen dykes, river banks, ponds and occasionally wet meadows. It is only<br />
locally distributed within <strong>Huntingdonshire</strong> and is becoming scarce (Wells, 2003). There is an<br />
additional record from a meadow at Ramsey Heights where it has been sown and may not<br />
persist.<br />
Oenan<strong>the</strong> lachenalii C.C. Gmel.<br />
Parsley Water-dropwort<br />
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: <strong>Rare</strong> (1 site, 1 tetrad)<br />
Site Grid Reference Last Record<br />
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC TL22998486 2011 (MM)<br />
Last recorded in 1846 from Somersham and assumed long since extinct until re-found by MM<br />
in 2008 at Woodwalton Fen. A re-survey in 2011 found 20 plants. Also in 2008, populations <strong>of</strong><br />
purported Oenan<strong>the</strong> silaifolia just over <strong>the</strong> county boundary in Northamptonshire were also reidentified<br />
as this species. As such, <strong>the</strong>re is evidence that <strong>the</strong> two species are not well<br />
understood in <strong>Huntingdonshire</strong> (see also below) and it would not be entirely surprising if<br />
additional populations <strong>of</strong> O. lachenalii were to be found over coming years.
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