Staffordshire (VC 39) County Rare Plant Register, 2008 - Botanical ...

Nationally near Threatened
Cynoglossum officinale (date updated)
Colchicum autumnale (grid ref corrected)
Euphorbia exigua (first record for twenty years)
Filago vulgaris (thirteen additional sites)
Hymenophyllum wilsonii (two possible further old records)
Hypericum montanum (date updated for an introduced site)
Orchis morio (date update)
Potentilla argentea (two additional sites: probably casual)
Pyrola rotundifolia ssp rotundifolia (date update)
Rumex pseudoalpinus (additional site)
Stachys arvensis (four additional sites)
Viola tricolor (seventeen additional sites)
Dianthus deltoides (casual additional site)
Onobrychis viciifolia (two casual additional sites)
Stratiotes aloides (four introduced additional sites)
Vicia lutea (casual deletion)
Supplementary List
Locally Rare: Native Taxa with only 3 sites, or less
Carex divulsa ssp divulsa (additional site)
Cerastium arvense (now in four tetrads: removed)
Cerastium arvense x tomentosum (date update)
Eleogiton fluitans (date update; records from two adjacent tetrads corrected to be from one)
Epilobium x floridulum (additional site)
E. x novae-civitatis (hir x cil) (now in four tetrads: removed)
Epipactis purpurata date updated
Festuca altissima (additional site)
Gagea lutea (date updated)
Geranium sylvaticum (additional site: probably planted)
Gymnocarpium dryopteris (date updated)
Juncus ambiguus (three 2007 sites: moved from “Last Sightings of Probably Extinct Natives”)
Medicago arabica (four new casual sites)
Phegopteris connectilis (date updated)
Polygonatum multiflorum (two new sites needing verification)
Potamogeton alpinus (date changed)
Rosa x cotteti, R. x molletorum & R. obtusifolia x tomentosa (misplaced sites corrected)
R. x nitidula (eight new introductions)
Samolus valerandi (additional site)
Sison amomum (new site)
Stellaria nemorum ssp nemorum (two date updates; new site)
Vaccinium uliginosum (record is doubted)
Vicia sylvatica (deletion)
Locally Scarce and Declining: Native Taxa in 10 sites or less
Arenaria serpyllifolia ssp leptoclados (four additional sites)
Botrychium lunaria (additional site)
Catabrosa aquatica (additional site)
Euphrasia arctica ssp borealis (deleted: now 11/25)
Inula conyzae (additional site)
Lepidium heterophyllum (deleted: now 6/5)
Rorippa microphylla (deleted: now 11/13)
Scleranthus annuus (additional site)
Silaum silaus (two additional sites)
Geranium sylvaticum (transfer to Locally Rare)
Last Sighting of Probably Extinct Natives
Juncus ambiguus (moved to “Locally Rare”)
Ranunculus baudotii (moved from “pre-1987 Last Sightings of Uncommon Non-Natives”)
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