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

Stellaria palustris Retz.
Marsh Stitchwort
National Status: Vulnerable, BAP County Status: Scarce (5 sites, 6 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Hemingford Meadow TL308712 2010 (BS)
Holme Fen, Jackson’s Covert TL2188 2006 (MM)
Needingworth, Overcote Fen TL357714 1995 (BE & JT)
St Neots Common SSSI TL186615 2001 (KW)
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC TL23368513
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TL22808390
2010 (DB)
2007 (DB)
In Huntingdonshire, this species has only ever been known from a very limited number of
wetland sites. Woodwalton Fen is perhaps the only site where it can be found in any great
abundance, and both the glaucous and green foliage variants occur here.
Symphytum officinale L. ssp. bohemicum (F.W. Schmidt) Čelak.
Common Comfrey
National Status: Nationally Rare County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC TL23418450 2010 (DB)
This rare fenland subspecies is only known in Britain from Cambridgeshire and
Huntingdonshire. It is widespread through Woodwalton Fen and may occur at Holme Fen
also.
Taraxacum akteum Hagend., Soest & Zevenb.
Hampshire Dandelion
National Status: Nationally Rare,
Vulnerable
County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
St Neots Common SSSI, Lammas Meadow TL18206125 2010 (DB)
This species is now known to occur in more counties than just Hampshire but it is still a rare
species associated with species-rich, wet meadows. Lammas Meadow is managed through a
traditional grazing regime and the occasional taking of a crop of hay no later than Lammas
Day (1 st August) after which the meadow would be aftermath grazed.