Rare Plant Register for Huntingdonshire - Botanical Society of the ...

Asplenium ceterach L.
Rustyback
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (2 sites, 2 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Old Weston, Model Farm TL098774 2011 (KR)
Stilton Church, churchyard wall TL159893 2010 (NC)
A rare denizen of old walls and buildings. Our climatic regime does not favour this species.
Asplenium trichomanes L. ssp. quadrivalens D.E. Mey.
Maidenhair Spleenwort
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Hemingford Grey, Manor House TL289706 (centroid) 2010 (LF & BS)
Very rare in Huntingdonshire, no doubt as a consequence of the prevailing climatic regime.
There are no natural habitats for this species in the County and instead it occurs solely as a
denizen of old walls. The above record is the first for thirty-six years.
Astragalus glycyphyllos L.
Wild Liquorice
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (2 sites, 2 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Conington, by the railway TL202834 2009 (PKi)
Great Stukeley Railway Cutting SSSI:
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
11
TL23647525
TL23547538
TL2374
2010 (TC)
2010 (TC)
2010 (TC)
Always very rare in Huntingdonshire and typically confined to old grassland habitats on the
calcareous boulder clay. It has been introduced at Crown Lakes Country Park, Farcet with a
range of other taxa of non-native origin.
Atropa belladonna L.
Deadly Nightshade
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Scarce (4 sites, 4 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Alconbury, at A1(M) flyover TL18947556 2011 (MiB)
Nene Valley Railway, Wansford Tunnel TL08079728
TL08119724
2010 (DB)
2009 (DB)