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A common sedge nationally but very rare in Huntingdonshire due to the loss of species-rich wet grassland and fen habitats. Carex pallescens Michaux Pale Sedge National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Scarce (4 sites, 6 tetrads) Brampton Wood SSSI Monks Wood SSSI Site Grid Reference Last Record TL17866987 TL181698 TL19958038 TL20198040 2008 (DB) 1996 (TW) 2008 (DB) 2008 (DB) Waresley Wood SSSI TL260547 2008 (DB) Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC TL230842 (centroid?) 2003 (DW & MW) This is typically a species of ancient woodlands on the boulder clay, although it also occurs at Woodwalton Fen. It is locally abundant in Monks Wood. Carex panicea L. Carnation Sedge National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (2 sites, 3 tetrads) Site Grid Reference Last Record Molesworth Airfield TL087773 1996 (TW) Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC TL227837 TL22968458 1996 (TW) 2008 (DB) Scarce in Huntingdonshire due to the historic losses of wet grassland and fen habitats to arable production. It has probably suffered further more recent declines, relative to the baseline given in Wells (2003), as alluvial grasslands have been lost to agricultural improvement. Carex paniculata L. Greater Tussock-Sedge National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad) Site Grid Reference Last Record Old Weston TL1076 2007 (KR) This is a species of peaty, medium base-rich swamps and mires where water levels are at least seasonally high (Jermy et al. 2007). At Old Weston it grows under alder in damp, stream-side hollow. 14
Carex pilulifera L. Pill Sedge National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (2 sites, 2 tetrads) Site Grid Reference Last Record Hemingford Grey, river bank TL292707 2009 (LF) Holme Fen SSSI TL198896 2006 (TW & MM) This species is found throughout Britain but is most frequent in acid, sandy regions in northern England and is common in the hill country of Wales and Scotland (Jermy et al. 2007). In Huntingdonshire it is rare because of the general absence of freer-draining, acidic soils. It has also been recorded from Brampton Wood, where it was last recorded in 1974. Carex pseudocyperus L. Cyperus Sedge National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Scarce (7 sites, 9 tetrads) Site Grid Reference Last Record Aversley Wood SSSI TL165823 1996 (TW) Darlows Farm (Great Fen Project) TL23508507 2008 (DB) Hemingford Grey, The Thorpe TL2870 2008 (LF) Holme Fen SSSI: North of Holme Lode Jackson’s Covert TL1989 TL21778869 2007 (DB) 2009 (DB) St Ives, Meadow Lane Gravel Pits TL3270 1999 (BM & JM) Monks Wood SSSI TL195796 2009 (DB) Norman Cross Pits TL163908 2009 (NC) Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC: tetrad Compartment 55 TL2282 TL2284 2007 (DB) 2009 (NC) This attractive sedge is still relatively widespread but most often seen as solitary plants on the edge of fen ditches, ponds and gravel pits. Carex pulicaris L. Flea Sedge National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad) Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC, Compartment 76 Site Grid Reference Last Record 15 TL22768378 2009 (MM) This is a frequent species in Scotland, northern England and Wales. In eastern and southern England it is most frequently associated with valley mires and it has been lost from many areas due to the drainage of suitable wet habitats (Jermy et al. 2007).
Page 1: Rare Plant Register for Huntingdons
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Page 8 and 9: occupy (in Huntingdonshire) a gener
Page 10 and 11: Hemingford Grey TL285701 2008 (LF)
Page 12 and 13: Always very rare in Huntingdonshire
Page 14 and 15: This attractive subspecies was firs
Page 18 and 19: Carex viridula Michaux ssp. brachyr
Page 20 and 21: Cerastium arvense L. Field Mouse-ea
Page 22 and 23: Chara canescens Desv. & Lois. Beard
Page 24 and 25: This species is widespread, but rar
Page 26 and 27: Dactylorhiza traunsteinerioides (Pu
Page 28 and 29: Dryopteris borreri (Newman) Newman
Page 30 and 31: Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC TL229833
Page 32 and 33: Fritillaria meleagris L. Fritillary
Page 34 and 35: Wansford Railway (disused) TL077496
Page 36 and 37: Hieracium umbellatum L. ssp. umbell
Page 38 and 39: countryside and waste places (Stewa
Page 40 and 41: Juncus compressus Jacq. Round-fruit
Page 42 and 43: Anacamptis morio at Upwood Meadows
Page 44 and 45: Myosurus minimus at Upwood Meadows
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Page 48 and 49: Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lejeune s
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Page 56 and 57: Pedicularis palustris L. Marsh Lous
Page 58 and 59: Waresley Wood SSSI TL263546 2009 (D
Page 60 and 61: Holme Lode Covert Middle Covert TL2
Page 62 and 63: Ranunculus parviflorus L. Small-flo
Page 64 and 65: Rubus percrispus D. Allen & R.D. Ra
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one-year old plants were introduced
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Monks Wood SSSI Upton Wood TL190795
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Teucrium scorodonia L. Wood Sage Na
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Verbena officinalis L. Vervain Nati
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vegetation. It is capable of formin
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Appendix 1 Extinctions Many of the
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Appendix 2 Data Deficient Species A
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Appendix 3 Additional Species Not Y
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