The final verdict: A week at the Lizard is just not enough!
Dr M and his students have seen beautiful landscapes, fascinating vegetation and lovely plants both common and rare.
And, naturally, being a Dr M field course, much fun has been had along the way!
Dr M’s three final Lizard Diary entries are galleries of images of plants and people and fun, and between them, they tell their own story, a story of eXtreme botanical beauty, diversity and enjoyment!
Dr M, Wizard Carter, guest tutor Hermione and students Dorothy, Edwina, Count Ligule, Toto and Sarah Seaweed, observed and marveled at over four hundred (that’s 400!) different plant species (and that’s excluding mosses and lichens and seaweeds, which we’ll come to later!).
This first final post is a gallery of botanical images capturing just a fraction of the botanical diversity and beauty witnessed during our week at the Lizard.
Click on the images once, then a second time to see botanical beauty close-up!
Ferns and Fern allies
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- Asplenium adiantum-nigrum (Black Spleenwort)
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- Asplenium marinum (Sea Spleenwort)
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- Isoetes histrix (Land Quillwort)
Maritime species
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- Armeria maritima (Sea Thrift)
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- Cochlearia danica (Danish Scurvygrass)
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- Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima (Sea Beet)
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- Silene uniflora (Sea Campion)
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- Cerastium diffusum (Sea Mouse-ear)
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- Scilla verna (Spring Squill)
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- Daucus carota ssp. gummifer (Sea Carrot)
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- Raphanus raphanistrum ssp. maritimum (Sea Radish)
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- Malva arborea (Tree Mallow)
Fabaceae
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- Trifolium incarnatum ssp. molinerii (Long-headed Clover)
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- Trifolium occidentale (Western Clover)
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- Trifolium subterraneum (Subterranean Clover)
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- Vicia bithynica (Bithynian Vetch)
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- Vicia lutea (Yellow Vetch)
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- Lotus angustissimus (Lesser Bird’s-foot Trefoil)
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- Genista pilosa (Hairy Greenweed)
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- Genista tinctoria (Dyers Greenweed)
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- Genista anglica (Petty Whin)
Other Monocotyledons
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- Allium triquetrum (Three-cornered Garlic)
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- Asparagus prostratus (Wild Asparagus)
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- Bromus hordaceus ssp. ferronii (Sea Brome)
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- Juncus capitatus (Dwarf Rush)
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- Schoenus nigricans (Black Bog-rush)
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- Carex arenaria (Sand-sedge)
Other Dicotyledons
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- Herniaria ciliolata (Smooth Rupture-wort)
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- Radiola linoides (Allseed)
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- Ranunculus parviflorus (Hairy Buttercup)
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- Minuartia verna (Spring Sandwort)
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- Ranunculus tripartitus (Three-lobed Water Crowfoot)
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- Jasione montana (Sheep’s-bit)
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- Umbilicus rupestris (Wall Navelwort)
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- Leucanthmum vulgare (Oxeye Daisy)
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- Smyrnium olusatrum (Alexanders)
Three landscapes
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- The Lizard cliffs
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- Drifts of Thrift in maritime cliff grassland
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- Maritime heath with Spring Squill
One thing’s for sure, there’s plenty more where these came from, one reason, if reason be needed, for Dr M to return again next year!
Dr M says: Botany rocks and eXtreme botany rocks eXtremely!
May 28, 2014
