Wild Pansy

Perfect weather and a good turnout for the last South Lincs Flora Group field meeting of the year! The vegetation was looking decidedly autumnal with many areas harvested or mown, but we still managed to record 152 taxa from the Blankney Barff area. 

We added species to both tetrads we recorded in, the most exciting being Frogbit which is Vulnerable in the UK. We also refound a good number of species that haven't been seen for many years, including a small population of Wild Pansy growing with a much larger population of Field Pansy, as well as several plants with characteristics of their hybrid. Wild Pansy was last recorded from the area in 1957 by Joan Gibbons - several years before I was born!