Strumpshaw Fen, 25 June 2021

After a visit to the camping and leisure shop in Blofield I popped in to Strumpshaw for a walk and to look for some plants I know grow there. I'd contacted Jeremy Bartlett but was unable to get hold of him so it was a case of finding them myself. Luckily they aren't small! 

I opted to walk along the Lackford Run first and in the end that was all I needed to find everything - Marsh Pea was numerous in one particular area and in a dyke I found one small patch of the impressive umbellifer Cowbane. Into the bargain I also found Annual Beard Grass, Marsh Bedstraw, Marsh Fern, Pennywort, a couple of examples of the 'schoenephila' form of Southern Marsh Orchid and the curious long-leaved stingless form of Stinging Nettle known as Fen or Stingless Nettle that favours marshes.


                                                                                                                                      Marsh Pea

                                                                                                                                          Cowbane

                                                                                                     'schoenephila' Southern Marsh Orchids
                                                                                                                                   Marsh Fern
                                                                                                                                     Pennywort
                                                                                                                          'Fen' or 'Stingless' Nettle
 
                                                                                                                             Annual Beard Grass

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