Blechnum spicant (Hard Fern) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Burton Fell, Hutton Roof on 23rd May 2019
Showing Crozier just starting to unravel
We don't get a lot of this particular fern on the Hutton Roof side because it favours acid soils (not limestone), but here and there (up to 4 previous records I have so far) we do get small pockets were you get a build up of soils, thus supporting the species.
If you go on the opposite side of Dalton to the Keer Valley, this species is very common on the large sloping banks to the small River Keer.
Blechnum spicant (Hard Fern) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Burton Fell, Hutton Roof on 23rd May 2019
Showing Crozier just starting to unravel
I like this photo above in particular because it shows the varying stages of the croziers and their unravelling process
You have heard the story about the buses! none and then they all turn up at once. Well maybe for me that's the case with the most beautiful Adders Tongue fern, because for years I have tried to find this on Hutton Roof without success, yet now I have had two separate populations on Hutton Roof in about two weeks! OK being honest with this find today I did get a little help from a friend who guided me in the right direction and thankfully I found it, maybe a population of a couple of hundred ferns, but sadly at the moment no spikes on any of them (as yet)
Ophioglossum vulgatum (Adder's-tongue) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Burton Fell, Hutton Roof on 23rd May 2019
A few hundred in the population, but too early and no spikes showing
Ophioglossum vulgatum (Adder's-tongue) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Burton Fell, Hutton Roof on 23rd May 2019
A few hundred in the population, but too early and no spikes showing
Galium odoratum - Woodruff (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal
Good to see the first Melampyrum pratense - (Common cow-wheat) are showing and also the Galium sterneri (Limestone Bedstraw) is starting to come through, but the Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge) are very quiet, only found one or two out of the normal hundreds by now! I would generally get the peak by about the third week in May.
Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth, Hutton Roof (CWT) on 23rd May 2019
Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth, Hutton Roof (CWT) on 23rd May 2019
Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge) Click over to enlarge
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth, Hutton Roof (CWT) on 23rd May 2019
You have heard the story about the buses! none and then they all turn up at once. Well maybe for me that's the case with the most beautiful Adders Tongue fern, because for years I have tried to find this on Hutton Roof without success, yet now I have had two separate populations on Hutton Roof in about two weeks! OK being honest with this find today I did get a little help from a friend who guided me in the right direction and thankfully I found it, maybe a population of a couple of hundred ferns, but sadly at the moment no spikes on any of them (as yet)
Photo: Burton Fell, Hutton Roof on 23rd May 2019
A few hundred in the population, but too early and no spikes showing
Photo: Burton Fell, Hutton Roof on 23rd May 2019
A few hundred in the population, but too early and no spikes showing
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal
Good to see the first Melampyrum pratense - (Common cow-wheat) are showing and also the Galium sterneri (Limestone Bedstraw) is starting to come through, but the Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge) are very quiet, only found one or two out of the normal hundreds by now! I would generally get the peak by about the third week in May.
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth, Hutton Roof (CWT) on 23rd May 2019
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth, Hutton Roof (CWT) on 23rd May 2019
Photo: Lancelot Clark Storth, Hutton Roof (CWT) on 23rd May 2019
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