Huntingdonshire - Botanical Society of the British Isles

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
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.
Torilis arvensis (Huds.) Link
Spreading Hedge-parsley
National Status: Nationally Scarce,
Endangered, BAP
County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Sawtry Fen TL18W 2004 (TW)
A very rare species of arable farmland. This species was formerly widespread in southern and
eastern England but has undergone a marked decline as a result of increases in nitrogen
applications to competitive modern crops. It is also late fruiting and may have been
disadvantaged by recent trends for the earlier harvesting of crops (as a result of the breeding
of new crop cultivars) and the consequent earlier tilling of farmland. It may also be susceptible
to herbicides (Wilson & King, 2003).
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