Flower Walk at Rock Edge, 21 May 2022
To celebrate World Biodiversity Day 2022, on Saturday 21 May Dr Judy Webb led two flower walks at Rock Edge for members of the Friends of Lye Valley.
Yellow-barred longhorn moth on horse chestnut
Looking at comfrey, bees, and cow parsley
Rock Edge, 21 May 2022: Plants spotted on the Flower Walk for |
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Common Name of Plants (including trees) |
Scientific name (linked to Wikipedia entry) |
Bird's Foot Trefoil |
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Cherry Plum |
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Cocksfoot grass |
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Comfrey |
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Common Knapweed |
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Common Lime tree |
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Common Vetch |
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Cow Parsley |
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Cowslip |
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Dove's foot crane's-bill |
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Garlic Mustard |
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Germander speedwell |
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Great Burnet |
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Green alkanet |
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Hairy Oat-grass |
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Hart's Tongue Fern |
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Hawthorn |
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Hedgerow Crane's bill |
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Herb Robert/Stinking Bob |
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Horseshoe Vetch |
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Jack go-to-bed-at-noon/Goatbeard |
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Kidney Vetch |
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Lemon Balm |
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Male Fern |
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Mouse Ear |
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Oxeye or Moon Daisy |
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Red Clover |
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Red Horse Chestnut tree |
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Ribwort Plantain |
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Small Scabious |
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Spindle tree |
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Swedish Whitebeam tree |
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Upright Brome grass |
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Variegated Yellow Archangel |
Lamiastrum galeobdolon var argentatum |
Wild Basil |
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Wild Clary |
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Wild Marjoram |
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Wild Strawberry |
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Wood Avens/Herb Bennet |
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Yellow Rattle |
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Those on the walk also saw the Jurassic limestone on the former quarry pit and on the grass near Windmill Road the footprint of the wartime Rock Edge Municipal Restaurant that survived until 1956.
The walks ended with tea under the horse chestnut tree