Durham Rare Plant Register - Botanical Society of the British Isles

Information GivenFor all of BSBI/IUCN listed species and for some of the Locally Rare speciesthe following details are given-Common nameScientific NameNational StatusLocal StatusRange in DurhamSignificance of the Durham population.Site Records with location, recorder and year.Protection status of the current sitesCounty map of locationsIf appropriate for selected species-Photograph of typical local habitatPhotograph of plant in local habitat.Geographical AreaThe Durham Rare Plant Register covers the Watsonian Vice County ofDurham, numbered as “66”, plus the Teesdale area of VC65. The VC65 areais included because it is now part of the administrative county of Durham, andbecause the important Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve is bisectedby the VC boundary. This nationally important botanical area holds a largeproportion of the British populations of a number of Red Data Book species,with most of these occurring on both sides of the Tees. The Upper TeesdaleNNR also holds most or all of the English distribution of species ofpredominantly Scottish distribution, such as Scottish Asphodel, AlpineWillowherb and Alpine Meadow Rue. Sites in VC65 are indicated as such inthe text.ContributorsThe Register is compiled by John Liam Durkin, from about 500,000 recordsincluding many extracted from “Recorder” by Keith Cunningham, from GordonGraham’s Durham Flora, from Andy McLay’s survey of Gateshead district,from contributions from many recorders via the BSBI system, and from otherwritten sources. These records have been compiled into the “Mapmate”recording system.The Alchemilla species notes follow the text of articles written recently by DrMargaret Bradshaw.Photographs that have no credits are by John Durkin. Several high qualityphotographs were kindly provided by UKWildflowers.com, and are individuallycredited.