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Pewsey Downs, Wilts
Posted 25-08-2008 at 08:54 AM by leifus
Pewsey Down's support a huge number of wildflowers (including round-headed rampion, frog orchids, burnt orchids and green-winged orchids) and butterflies such as the adonis blue and marsh fritillary (there is a lot of devil's-bit scabious there - Marsh fritllaries food plant).
Today, a bit late for the orchids, we set off over the Downs to the steep slopes the other side. Round-headed rampion only grows on the steep chalk slopes of wiltshire where the land is undisturbed from ploughing. Unfortunately I didn't come across any, but instead the usual chalk grassland flowers were in abundance such as eyebright, lesser hawkbit and small scabious. There was a large patch of spiny restharrow and a couple of clustered bellflowers. I found 5 different species of thistle: creeping, spear, dwarf, musk and woolly (woolly is scarce and seldom common
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FLOWER OF THE DAY: Woolly thistle
Today, a bit late for the orchids, we set off over the Downs to the steep slopes the other side. Round-headed rampion only grows on the steep chalk slopes of wiltshire where the land is undisturbed from ploughing. Unfortunately I didn't come across any, but instead the usual chalk grassland flowers were in abundance such as eyebright, lesser hawkbit and small scabious. There was a large patch of spiny restharrow and a couple of clustered bellflowers. I found 5 different species of thistle: creeping, spear, dwarf, musk and woolly (woolly is scarce and seldom common
)FLOWER OF THE DAY: Woolly thistle
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