Huntingdonshire - Botanical Society of the British Isles

Juncus compressus Jacq.
Round-fruited Rush
National Status: Near Threatened
County Status: Rare (3 sites, 3 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Hinchingbrooke Country Park TL221711 2004 (KW)
Kimbolton, minor road to Pertenhall TL098669 2006 (KW)
St Neots Common SSSI, Lammas Meadow TL180608 2002 (KW)
This species typically occurs in wet meadows and on the edges of reservoirs and clay and
gravel pits (Wells, 2003).
Juncus subnodulosus Schrank
Blunt-flowered Rush
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened
County Status: Scarce (6 sites, 7 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Godmanchester, Cow Lane Pits TL2671 2009 (SL)
Holme Fen SSSI:
unspecified dyke
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TL1989
TL2088
2006 (MM)
2006 (MM)
Norman Cross Pits TL16259081 2009 (DB)
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC TL23468530 2009 (DB)
Woodwalton Marsh SSSI TL212812 2008 (DB)
Warboys Turf Fen TL3282 2001 (DWr)
Uncommon and only abundant at Woodwalton Fen. Primarily confined to the Fens of central
north Huntingdonshire but it can also be found in old mineral workings.
Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) Schultes
Crested Hair-grass
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened
County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
St Neots Common SSSI, Islands Common TL183610 1996 (TW & SW)
This species probably persists at a few of its other historic sites, it is easily overlooked and
our grasslands have probably not been examined in as great a detail over recent years as
they have been historically. Old sites include Godmanchester Eastside Common,
Woodwalton Fen and Upwood Meadows.
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