Our final day before the overnight ferry back to
Aberdeen. Bob and I went to the north of
mainland Shetland for a bit of botanical twitching. It was too windy to go up Ronas Hill so we went
to look at Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna), a common plant on Shetland but
new to me. Bob also showed me Purple
Saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) growing in some calcareous flushes, a small
rare plant which resembles a sedum.
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| Water
Lobelia was difficult to spot bobbing up and down in the waves |
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| Map of my travels over the 8 days |
During the week I recorded 230 species (25 new to me) in 11 monads, ranging from 50 species in upland heath areas to 150 species in monads contains a range of habitats such as coastal, heath, flushes, ditches and roadside verges.
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