Does anyone have a list of all the British Arable Plants?

[leifus]

Does anyone have a list of all the British Arable Plants? If not I shall have to wait for a rainy day and construct one myself!

thanks

[Meta menardi]

You could be firing at a shadowy and fast moving target. How are you defining "British" and "arable"? Would you include historic records of plants grown as crops? There is a whole load of defining to be done first, which suggests to me that they are not a truly discrete group of plants. Love to hear any thoughts on this.

[artdemole]

Did a search on this subject.It does diversify from farm plants to scarce plants.The lists seem to have same plants but lead you to purchase all the different books. Some of the downloads are good for recognition.

[animartco]

hi Liefus. Firstly are you looking for crops that are grown in Britian, or wildflowers that are habitually found in or arond ploughed fields?
If it is crops, then they would not simply be British, unless you meant strains of wheat or whatever that have been developed and named in Britain. But you could get a book simply on wheat or on potatoes. It is a vast subject, and has to be subdivided. Moreover calling it British has no meaning since crops are the same throughout the world. The only divisions here are tropical subtropical or equable.
Wildflowers that favour ploughed fields are however an interesting study.

[Meta menardi]

If you are looking for wild flowers that are associated with arable crops, I have to reccomend Home: Arable Plants - a field guide. I bought the book, but the on-line guide is brilliant. Well worth a bit of time to investigate the full capabilities of this.

[leifus]

yeah the wildflowers associated with arable fields like fumitories, deadnettles etc

i tried that website which seemed very good but it doesn't have the commonest things like red deadnettle.

thanks anyway

[wildherbalian85]

Originally Posted by leifus

yeah the wildflowers associated with arable fields like fumitories, deadnettles etc

i tried that website which seemed very good but it doesn't have the commonest things like red deadnettle.

thanks anyway

Its also missing Henbane, opium poppy and common vetch

[IanS]

The book concentrates on:
'the group of plants showing the steepest decline of the British flora over the last 25 years...'

Its a good book and well worth the money. It includes information on some of our arable grass spp. and gives general info on the history of arable cropping from Neolithic times to present day.

[wildherbalian85]

Originally Posted by IanS

The book concentrates on:
'the group of plants showing the steepest decline of the British flora over the last 25 years...'

Its a good book and well worth the money. It includes information on some of our arable grass spp. and gives general info on the history of arable cropping from Neolithic times to present day.

My knowledge of arable plants is limited but it would seem very odd that a plant such as henbane which has been in serious decline over the past 20 or so years is not mentioned.