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

Veronica scutellata L.
Marsh Speedwell
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC TL229845
84
TL23478523
2008 (DB)
2010 (DB)
This is a rare species in Huntingdonshire and can be found on the margins of ponds and
dykes and in fen meadows. Our plant is var. scutellata.
Vicia parviflora Cav.
Slender Tare
National Status: Nationally Scarce,
Vulnerable
County Status: Scarce (6 sites, 6 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Alconbury TL188752 2011 (MiB)
Ellington, Whitleather Lodge Farm TL159731 2006 (DB)
Kimbolton Airfield TL106696 1997 (BD)
Needingworth Quarry TL351729 2008 (JM)
Old Weston TL0977 2011 (KR)
Stocking Lane Protected Verge TL122695 2010 (BD)
Vicia parviflora can be found in the south Midlands, Somerset, Dorset, Oxfordshire and
Essex, where it shows a preference for calcareous clay loams and can be found along arable
field margins, sunny hedge banks, old tracks and road verges. It has become much rarer
within its range in recent years (Wilson & King, 2003).
Viola canina L. ssp. canina
Heath Dog-violet
National Status: Near Threatened County Status: Rare (3 sites, 3 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Monks Wood SSSI, East Field TL198805 2002 (MM)
Upwood Meadows SSSI, Bentley Meadow TL252828 2006 (TW)
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC:
Compartment 79
Compartment 82
Compartment 84
TL231836 (centroid)
TL227835 (centroid)
TL231834
2011 (MM)
2011 (MM)
2011 (MM)
In Huntingdonshire this subspecies can be found in the drier parts of fens and in wet
grasslands on the boulder clay. It undoubtedly also still occurs at Holme Fen, but recent
records have not been determined to subspecies. In 2011 the population in Compartment 84
of Woodwalton Fen comprised approximately 1500 plants, three times more than the total
number of plants recorded from the rest of the Fen that year.