RECENT PLANT RECORDS
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Felixstowe: Dellwood Ave, TM3035 and Ferry Road, TM3236, 08/04/2010 Barbara Mathews. This species is turning up more frequently in the coastal zone, partly as a result of more recorders recognising the pinnate leaves with lobed leaflets which are much less finely divided than those of the Common Stork’s-bill. Salvia pratensis L., Meadow Clary Hollesley, Stebbings Lane, TM3444, 15/05/2011, Laurie Forsyth. The owners of Vale Farm, the nearest garden for hundreds of yards, did not plant it, but have had it in their garden in recent years. Scutellaria altissima L., Somerset Skullcap Washbrook, Pigeon’s Lane, TM1142, 13/06/2010, Martin Woodcock. 1st Suffolk record. Found in a large ‘garden’ of about 12 acres at Washbrook. Some of it, bordering two streams which meet, has obviously been left wild for a long time. A garden escape, naturalised in N Somerset since 1929, but with very few other British records. Malva alcea L., Greater Musk-mallow Levington, track to Levington Hall, TM2439, 05/08/2011, Barbara Mathews. 1st Suffolk record. Some of the plants grown in gardens as ‘Musk Mallow’, including those in my own garden, are this European species and not the native M. moschata. M. alcea can be recognised by the presence of stellate hairs on all the vegetative parts (hairs are simple in moschata). These hairs can be easily seen with a hand lens by examining the calyx lobes. The two species hybridise to produce intermediates (with a mix of stellate and simple hairs). Pyrus pyraster (L.) Burgsd., Wild Pear Troston, edge of former heath, TL8972, 20/04/2010, Alec Bull. A single, old tree, which shows every sign of being the wild native species. Melampyrum cristatum L., Crested Cow-wheat Poslingford, protected verge U7323, TL7649, 10/06/2010, Tina Martin. A new site for this declining species. Possibly spread by seed from one of the nearby protected verges with cutting machinery. Scrophularia vernalis L., Yellow Figwort West Stow Country Park, TL7971, 23/05/2011, Chris Gregory. A new site but not very far from some long-established populations in the Bury area. Solanum triflorum Nutt., Small Nightshade Walberswick National Nature Reserve, track near Westwood Lodge, TM4573, 21/08/2010, Gill Perkins. Another new East Suffolk site Cotoneaster mairei H. Lév., Maire’s Cotoneaster Halesworth, waste ground, TM37Y, 2010, Graham Peck, conf. J. Fryer. 1st Suffolk record.
Trans. Suffolk Nat. Soc. 47 (2012)