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Recording in Shropshire
Recording in the county is organised by SEDN - open this document for a brief summary.
The county recorder is Sarah Whild and the database is maintained by Alex Lockton.
If you would like to record in the county then you can download our recording card to make life easier. Our standard recording technique is to make lists for either 1km squares or individual sites (as long as the site falls more-or-less into a 1km square). Rare species, which are not listed on the recording card, need a detailed grid reference and notes on identification, etc.
>> General recording card
>> Recording card using Stace 3 names
>> Rare plant recording card
The Shropshire Botanical Society organises field meetings and indoor meetings throughout the year. Membership is open to anyone who is interested in botany, and costs £10 per year or £20 for 3 years.
To join the Shropshire Botanical Society, please make cheques payable to ‘Shropshire Botanical Society’ and send them to the membership secretary, Mark Duffell, 19 Compton Mews, Ford, Shrewsbury, SY5 9NX.
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Flora of Shrewsbury
Our project this year is to produce a Flora of Shrewsbury, in conjunction with the University of Birmingham. There will be a series of lectures in the spring, followed by field meetings and finally editorial sessions in the autumn.
For those working on the project, here is the draft Flora as it develops.
>> Flora of Shrewsbury (pdf 800 kb 29th May). Note - it now uses the new Stace ed. 3 names and taxonomic order.
Here is the list of things not yet found after 1st September 2010.
>> Not yet found.doc
Progress
The May field meeting was to Becks Field and the River Severn, to look for Carex acuta, Saxifraga granulata and other riverside rarities.
Highlights include Cardamine amara, spotted by Elizabeth and Rosemary, and previously known only from a ditch at Coton Hill. Fumaria purpurea was spotted on an earth bank in the Slang, and Equisetum x litorale was found in abundance on the river banks.
Future Meetings
Wednesday 1st September - meet at Marine Terrace on the towpath by English Bridge at 10 o’clock.
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Newsletters
>> Report for 2010 (pdf 1.36Mb)
>> Report for 2009 (pdf 1.12Mb)
Previous newsletters are available here for downloading. Click on the thumbnail to open the document.
- 18, Autumn 2008
- 17, Spring 2008
- 16, Autumn 2007
- 15, Spring 2007
- 14, Autumn 2006
- 13, Spring 2006
- 12, Spring 2005
- 11, Autumn 2004
- 10, Spring 2004
- 9, Autumn 2003
- 8, Spring 2003
- 7, Autumn 2002
- 6, Spring 2002
- 5, Spring 2001
- 4, Autumn 2000
- 3, Spring 2000
Publications
The Ecological Flora of Shropshire, by Charles Sinker et al., 1985 (paperback edition), is available from us for £10 inc. p&p (in UK).
Rare Plants of Shropshire, 3rd edition, by Alex Lockton & Sarah Whild, 2005, is available for £5 inc p&p (in UK).
Please send cheques (made out to Shropshire Botanical Society) to 66 North Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 2JL.
Accessing Data
It is easier to get botanical data for Shropshire than it is for any other county in Britain. We do not have a formal Local Records Centre - instead we have a virtual LRC that consists of county recorders who are funded to supply data, which is uploaded to various web sites:
>> The NBN Gateway has all axiophytes and many other species in full detail, accessible to anyone.
>> Natural Shropshire allows you to view tetrad maps or make lists of species in tetrads for all axiophytes and axiozoa.
>> The Shropshire Flora database gives full access and download capability to our entire database of 410,000 records. This web site is passworded to prevent plagiarism. NB updated 30th May 2010 and a new password set. Email Alex if you need to know what it is.
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