Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland visit, 27th May 2025

We spent a wonderful, if slightly soggy, day with seven members of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland in late May, walking the land on the search for plants here at Llwynbwch. We were pretty blown away by the deep level of knowledge in this lovely group of plant botherers! We learnt a huge amount and were so pleased to see the huge diversity of such a small area.

Plants of local significance recorded by the BSBI group included Wood Horsetail, the form of Lesser Celandine with bulbils in the nodes,  Hedgerow Crane's-bill, Corn Mint, Lousewort, the hybrid cinquefoil Potentilla x suberecta, Bulbous  Buttercup, Northern Yellowcress and Great Burnet. The party also recorded ten sedge species  including Spring Sedge, Pale Sedge, Pill Sedge, Common Sedge and Star Sedge, which are all  noteworthy in a local context. In addition, the discovery of hybrid shield-fern Polystichum x bicknellii is  of county interest and is the first record for this area.

 Also, Round-leaved Crowfoot, a species regarded by the Countryside  Council for Wales (now Natural Resources Wales) as globally threatened, although not uncommon in  Wales, was found growing in the wet mud in one gateway. Whorled Caraway and Primrose are also  included on the CCW globally threatened lists.  

If anyone would like to read the full 27 page site report with detailed listing of all plants found hereplease do get in touch and we can happily send you a copy.