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

Taraxacum haematicum G.E. Haglund ex H. Øllg. & Wiezell
Blood-red Dandelion
National Status: Nationally Scarce? County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
St Neots Common SSSI, Lammas Meadow TL18206137 2010 (DB)
This is the most widespread of the wet grassland species but is nowhere common. Like T.
akteum it is associated with species-rich, traditionally managed riverside meadows. Based on
gatherings made in 2010, Lammas Meadow supports a rich dandelion flora and future
searches may reveal further rarities.
Teucrium scorodonia L.
Wood Sage
National Status: Not scarce, Not threatened County Status: Rare (2 sites, 2 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Conington ‘Dump’ TL201842 2009 (DB)
Holme Fen SSSI
Compartment 8
Compartment 12
Compartment 14
79
TL200892
TL202891
TL205894
2009 (DB)
2001 (MM)
2009 (DB)
Exceptionally rare in Huntingdonshire due to the scarcity of suitable acidic substrates. It has
been known at Holme Fen since 1945 and was discovered in low numbers by the railway at
Conington in 2009.
Tolypella glomerata (Desv.) Leonh.
Clustered Stonewort
National Status: Nationally Scarce County Status: Rare (2 sites, 2 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Teardrop Pit (CP) TL189955 1999 (NS)
Upwood Meadows SSSI, Bentley Meadow TL251826 2007 (DB)
This species can be found in both fresh and slightly brackish waters that are typically baserich.
It seems to benefit from periodic disturbance of its habitats (Moore, 1986) and at
Upwood Meadows it occurs in a small pond that is seasonally disturbed by grazing cattle.