VASCULAR PLANTS

The most extensive sections on this web site are those of the vascular plants. There are five sections which are:

Ferns and Horsetails

This section covers:

LYCOPHYTES - The Clubmosses

EUSPORANGIATE FERNS - Adder's-tongue and Moonwort

CALAMOPHYTES - The Horsetails

LEPTOSPORANGIATE FERNS - The Ferns

Wild Flowers

Work has now begun with the species accounts for the wildflower section. Following Stace 3rd Ed. the uploads extend to the genus Saxifraga. The next uploads will include details for Heuchera sanguinea - Coral-bells.

Grasses Rushes and Sedges

Species accounts for this section will be uploaded after the work on the wildflower section has been completed.

Trees and Shrubs

This section covers any trees and scrubs with the exception of the genus Rubus. Species accounts have been uploaded and will be developed further in due course.

Brambles

This section covers species and hybrids belonging to the genus Rubus. Species accounts have been uploaded and will be developed further in due course.

General Details

A considerable number of vascular plants will only be cited by the taxon name in the South Lancashire Flora publication especially casuals, garden escapes and planted trees and shrubs. For such taxa deatiled species accounts and associated distribution maps are gradually being uploaded to this website. This procedure has already been carried out for the Ferns and Horsetails section and the Trees & Shrubs section and is currently being carried out for Wild Flower section.

Where maps appear on the main website the symbology tends to be as follows:

At the request of the South Lancashire Flora Committee species accounts and the associated distribution maps (plotted to the tetrad level) for native and extensively naturalised taxa are not to be uploaded until after the publication of the forthcoming flora. Note however that summary data plotted at the 10km level has been released by the BSBI and therefore it would seem appropriate to steadily add 10km distribution maps to the webpages. Updates with the associated 10km distribution maps have already been uploaded for Acer campestre, A. platanoides and A. pseudoplatanus. These uploads are intended to assist the targeting of vascular plant taxa at the 10km level for the new date class 2010 onwards. Note the map of Acer pseudoplatanus for which there are 2010 records for all of the 10km squares within vc59 (South Lancashire).

THE SALFORD FLORA

Note the additional link to The Salford Flora all the web pages for this flora have now been uploaded.

It should be noted that two visits to the Salford Borough were made during January 2012 and the results of recent finds will steadily be uploaded.

It is intended that a web page providing details about the development of the Salford Flora will be uploaded shortly.