MILL
HILL EXTRA IMAGES
July 2010
July 2010
Meadows
on the upper part of Mill Hill
Dominant
plants: Greater Knapweed,
Field
Scabious,
Lady's
Bedstraw,
Cleavers
11
July 2010
Round-headed
Rampion was seen in flower
for the first time this year with at least a dozen plants seen, but there
would be many more on the short sward top slopes.
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Extensive
new growths of Privet
on the lower slopes
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Round-headed
Rampion
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Musk
Thistle
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Stemless
Thistle
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Musk
Thistle (which had diminished above the
ridge since the introduction of the Cattle) was still seen in large clumps
below the ridge (on the top of the lower slopes) especially next to the
Rabbit
warren.
Stemless
Thistle was now very
frequently seen in flower and in places the ground was quite prickly.
5
July 2010
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Musk
Thistle
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Yellow
Wort
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Squinancywort
&
Wild
Thyme
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Carline
Thistle
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Squinancywort
was very common on both the lower slopes and middle slopes. Dropwort
could still be seen in flower on the exposed upper slopes. On the upper
slopes the green shoots of Carline Thistle
had appeared. The distinctive fly Panorpa
(image)
could be seen in the sunnier areas of the scrub. Yellow
Wort was now commonly seen in flower.
Adur
Thistles
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Agrimony
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Lesser
Centaury
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Wild
Basil
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Perforate
St.
John's Wort
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Agrimony
on
Mill
Hill is usually a single spike with hardly any leaves at all, especially
on the infertile lower slopes. The clump in the photograph above was on
the deeper soil on the ridge by the Reservoir. The diminutive Wild
Basil in the photograph above is before
the small purple flowers appear.
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