Tim Rich 2025 species

Jointed rush juncus articulatus - leaves on stem- septae across stem perpendicular making it bumpy inside. Dark black fruits

Marsh bedstraw - four leaves in whorl. Looks like cleaver.

Fen bedstraw, smaller, dainty and sticky like cleavers, 6 leaves in a whorl.

Meadows vetching - yellow flower, two leaves and two stipules - things that protect buds of base of stem/leaf. Good indicator of old grasslands. Tendrils.

Meadows vetching - yellow flower, two leaves and two stipules - things that protect buds of base of stem/leaf. Good indicator of old grasslands. Tendrils.

Marsh speedwell - Veronica catalpa - speedwell alternative fluorescents not in pales. Pale white flowers. Marsh speedwell. Indicator of good quality unimproved wetter grasslands

Marsh speedwell - Veronica catalpa - speedwell alternative fluorescents not in pairs. Pale white flowers. Marsh speedwell. Indicator of good quality unimproved wetter grasslands

Marsh horsetail tiny black oppressed teeth, flower on top stem. Long stem sheath with black teeth is shorter than common horsetail. Very solid stems don’t compress.

Great willowherb

Great willowherb

Common meadowrue- in the buttercup family. Hollow woody stem. Flowers similar to meadowsweet. Water meadows

Common meadowrue- in the buttercup family. Hollow woody stem. Flowers similar to meadowsweet. Water meadows

Common meadowrue- in the buttercup family. Hollow woody stem. Flowers similar to meadowsweet. Water meadows

Fools watercress

Fools water creas

Gyspywort

Water figwort auriculutus - auricles to stem. Capsules not butlers. Wasp pollinated flowers. Wet and dry places

Spreading hedge parsley

Strawberry clover - fluffier head and veins on leaves curve outwards

Strawberry clover - fluffier head and veins on leaves curve outwards

Spike rush - small single head with couple of very very short bracts.

Redshank

Water pepper

Redshank vs water pepper

Curled dock

Marsh yellow cress rorippa palustris

Brooklime Veronica beckabunga - glabourous, looks a bit like water mint. Has little blue flowers too

Tall fescue - virtually no awns, broad leaves, very rough, festuca flower head rest purple with green. Festuca arundinacia - sometime yellow green colour typical

Male fern shuttle cocks growth formation. Once pinnate with lobes toothed and rounded at the tip. Scales has more scales and squarer leaves

Male fern shuttle cocks growth formation. Once pinnate with lobes toothed and rounded at the tip. Scales has more scales and squarer leaves

Wood millet

Gray sedge - flowers slightly darker

Evening primrose

Cypress eragrostis - non native tall flat sedge

Sneezewort

Hemp nettle blubus at nodes - nettle fam

Hemp nettle blubus at nodes - nettle fam

Corky fruited water dropwort ancient grassland indicator - spiked crown unbellifer