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 I wasn't around for a large part of the recent work so here is a gallery of finds since the last blog. Bee Orchid, Tegeirian y wenynen, Ophrys apifera Found by Stevein late June at a new s...

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Very briefly - we have been busy and mainly looking for rarities... We didn't find Annual Knawel, recorded previously on the road up past Little Hill but we think we found the botanically rich...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2024/08/searching-and-sometimes-finding.html

(Rare for our county that is.) I have been away for much of the time since the last post but that didn't stop the intrepid Brecknock Botany Group members going out and finding things. Some no...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2024/07/finding-rare-plants.html

We have encountered Buck's-horn Plantain twice in the last few weeks, which rather contradicts the Stace distribution information: "mostly near sea ... inland in scattered lowland places mainly i...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2024/06/mid-year-catch-up.html

 We continue to have a botanically eventful start to the year. Just after the last post several of us met up near Twyn y Beddau under Hay Bluff. I expected to easily show the group the Pillwor...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2024/04/pillwort-to-nonea.html

Several of us visited the Hutchinsia at Craig y Cilau on Wednesday. I like this picture because the Rue-leaved Saxifrage nearby, a small plant itself, gives a sense of the tininess of the Hutchin...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2024/03/some-early-botany.html

 Not recorded since 1950 but seen last week by Ray Woods at the edges of a Swede field. Small-flowered Catchfly, Gludlys amryliw, Silene gallica So the history in the county goes: “Pen...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2023/10/small-flowered-catchfly.html

 No exciting finds this week for the group (but a member, Anne found a Musk Thistle on the Usk): Carduus nutans, Musk Thistle The main group outing though always looked like a rather dim ...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-molinia-horribleness-scale.html

  Llyn Carw - about 6 km trek across difficult moorland from Dolymynach. The Cambrian Mountain Society teamed up their walking expertise with botanists last week on this walk to our most re...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2023/09/quillwort-at-llyn-carw.html

 A record popped up on iRecord last week that is a great new find for the Vice County. We already have the most southerly occurrence of Circaea alpina (Alpine Enchanter's Nightshade) in the Br...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2023/09/an-exciting-find-and-other-matters.html

A first for many of us last Wednesday when eagle-eyed Arlene spotted Adder's Tongue (a fern) in lightly grazed turf near Talgarth.  Two well-matured fronds fronds of Ophioglossum vulgatum, A...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2023/05/yet-another-round-up.html

 It was a little late in the season to catch Llyn y Fan Fawr with a low water level but, spurred on by the news that its Carmarthenshire counterpart (Llyn y Fan Fach) had revealed some exciting ...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2022/09/chasing-wild-geese.html

 And we have been active. Members of the botany group were invited to update our records for Townhall Clock - Adoxa moschatellina from early March. Adoxa moschatellina at Pwll y Wrach Nat...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2022/06/half-year-gone.html

In October I received a report from Julie of Stag's-horn Clubmoss on Llangoed common. Several members of the recording group got there to check this out before I did and my group was initially du...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-welcome-find.html

The group have been very active in the latter part of the year, in many cases without my active participation. On 25th June, we visited the Carex limosa site on the Vice County border previousl...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2021/11/botany-2021-part-2.html

The Botany Group has not been entirely inactive with a lot of individual work proceeding from early on (within guidelines) and more recently we have done some group surveys. Here are a few high...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2021/06/botany-2021-in-brecknock.html

Three of us set out on a long walk last Sunday from a car park near Abergwesyn to the Llyn Brianne Reservoir. Abergwesyn itself seems remote in our county and the drive between our start point an...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2020/12/too-long-for-botany.html

OUTINGS IN NOVEMBER have been walks with occasional records - to scout out habitats for more attention next year (we hope!) THE FIRST was to Craig y Cilau, the cliffs and old quarries above...

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We haven't been idle and this is the story from May to September.  Our informal Brecknock Botany group carried on investigating their local flora individually all through to late June when we ...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2020/11/botany-in-brecknock-story-continues.html

The current pandemic has inevitably prevented us from carrying on as planned in recording the botany of Brecknock. Of course, this is of small importance in the scale of the suffering that Covid-...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2020/04/lockdown-botany.html

We’ve had a good year in 2019 – and, of course, we now have a very slow (recording wise) start to 2020. So here is a summary of our main finds last year. The very first new find was Crocus to...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-busy-final-atlas-year-for-brecknock.html

Our only outing since the last entry saw two of us braving the cold at Twmpath near Erwood. It's certainly an interesting area (geologically as well as botanically) to revisit later on and we did...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2020/01/year-end-and-new-year-plant-hunt.html

We thought it was all over (the BSBI Atlas project I mean) but an attempt to find a Charophyte up near Hay Bluff led to two Atlas-significant vascular finds (but no Chara I could see or get onto ...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2019/12/last-minute-finds.html

Since I last wrote... A revisit to complete the survey near Coelbren led to some good extra records including many of these in wet fields: Marsh Lousewort, Melog y waun or Pedicularis pal...

https://floralimages.blogspot.com/2019/11/winter-sets-in.html

A round up for the last month. The end of August saw us exploring a small valley above Talybont on Usk and we came across this. Bifid Hemp-nettle, Y benboeth hollt or Galeopsis bifida You ...

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