Chaddesley Woods
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Botanical Notes: March 2025
The countryside is waking up, the lanes and woods are decorated with lesser celandine, wood anemones, violets, dog’s mercury and primroses. For most of March I have been racing to get out before the sun goes down at around 6:30. But now that the clocks have changed, every evening presents an opportunity to get out…
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Rough Horsetail (Equisetum hyemale) at Chaddesley Woods
On Saturday (22.03.2025) we held a North Worcestershire Flora Group meeting at Chaddesley Woods NNR. We had set out to record along the main rides, but also to search for two rarities: Marsh violet Viola palustris and Rough Horsetail Equisetum hyemale. We failed to refind the marsh violet after a fruitless 30 minutes searching the…
