NR5 Year 11 visited Trowse Water Meadow for a survey |
These plants were growing in wet earth or mud |
We saw different plants in the compacted soil of the path |
Invasive (and dangerous) Giant Hogweed by the river |
Creeping Buttercup |
Curled Dock |
Meadow Buttercup leaves and Timothy grass |
Yorkshire Fog grass, and sedges |
Reed Canary Grass |
Common Mouse-ear |
Lady's Mantle |
Silverweed |
Cow parsley |
Marsh cinquefoil (we picked its round purplish flower head) |
Crinkled leaves of Annual Meadow Grass - Poa annua |
Soft and Hard Rush |
Meadowsweet by a path of mown Timothy grass and Yorkshire Fog |
We then left the water-meadow to find woodland plants |
Speedwell in the hedge under the trees by the road |
Greater Celandine |
Hedge Mustard or Jack by the Hedge |
Trowse Woods - a woodland habitat for comparison |
Spanish Bluebells (flared bells) |
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