Flora of Ashdown Forest - Botanical Society of the British Isles

121Epilobium montanum x obscurum.Found with both parents on verge of private road, Broadstone Warren (431.323), 1995, PW(confirmed TR).3 -++---------'+-4 5Epilobium ciliatum x montanum.One plant in flowerbed with parents, Horncastle House (391.325), 1995, DB; several plants,car park, St John's (505.316), 1992, G. Kitchener; one plant just east of southern bridge inPippingford Park, 1995, G. Kitchener on the SBRS/KFC field meeting. This is now probablythe commonest hybrid Epilobium in Britain (Stace 1991).4 5Epilobium lanceolatum. Spear-leaved willowherb.Roadside bank by woodland, Church Hill (498.325-6), 1987, PW (det. FR), and still present in1993. FR has a particular interest in this species and has suggested that it is currentlyincreasing in Britain.Epilobium lanceolatum is a rather uncommon plant of dry, rather open habitats. Britain3 lies at the northern extreme of its range and it is only found south of a line from the Wash toSnowdonia (Mountford 1994). It occurs in southern and western Europe, western Asia andNorth Africa.4 53 -++------Y-Epilobium tetragonum (Epilobium adnatum). Square-stemmed willowherb.Surprisingly scarce in our survey with only seven records, all confined to the eastern andwestern edges of the Forest. Hall (1980) shows a very different distribution with the majorityof records in the central southern part of the Flora area. The reason for this difference is notat all clear.3-++-----~- It occurs in lowland Britain but is rare in the north and Ireland, and in Europe north tosouthern Sweden and in western Asia.4 5Epilobium ciliatum x tetra anum.One plant in a car park at St John's 1505.316), 1992, G. Kitchener.This hybrid is recorded occasionally in Britain.3 -++-------'---t---4 5