Had a free day today so we went up to this lovely reserve south of Ripon and north of Knaresborough, adjacent to the village of Burton Leonard. A lovely place with superb limestone grassland, uncommon in this part of the world. the star plant was the Squinancywort a very scarce plant this far north, usually sticking to the chalk downs in the South, but thriving on the Magnesian Limestone here.
 |
| Greater Knapweed |
 |
| Wild Basil |
 |
| Common Centaury |
 |
| Field Scabious |
 |
| Pyramidal Orchid |
 |
| Bladder Campion |
 |
| Wild Marjoram |
 |
| Squinancywort |
 |
| Squinancywort |
 |
| Common Restharrow |
 |
| Scenery |
 |
| Squinancywort |
 |
| Common Knapweed |
 |
| Meadow |
 |
| Meadow |
 |
| Hoary Plantain |
No comments:
Post a Comment