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_MICRO BOTANICS

_ A SELECTION OF VEGETATION PHOTOGRAPHED ON 19/03/17 (SPRING) AT BANK WELL, SILVERDALE

_Life has returned back to the once dredged pond

_ Salix vimnalis (Common Osier willow)

_ Willow in flower

_Caltha palustris (Marsh marigold)

_ buds have broken and golden yellow petals begin to appear

_ Angelica sylvestris (Wild angelica)

_ Buds have broken and white petals on long stems begin to appear

_Equisetum palustre (Marsh horsetail)

_ Tall erect or decumbent and bright green. Cone shaped buds are breaking from the tip

_ Hippuris vulgaris (Marestail)

_ Emerging from the water with bright green branched stems and tooth like buds

_ Iris Pseudacorus (Flag iris)

_ Bud broken and bright yellow,  trumpet shaped flowers emerging

_ Myosotis scorpioides (Water forget-me-not)

_ Bud broken and small star shaped, lilac flowers blossoming 

_Equisetum palustre (Marsh horsetail)

_ Tall erect or decumbent and bright green. Cone shaped buds are breaking from the tip

_ Dryopteris filix-mas (Male fern)

_ In full growth

_Equisetum palustre (Marsh horsetail)

_ Tall erect or decumbent and bright green. Cone shaped buds are breaking from the tip and branches are begining to form from toothed stem

_Glyceria fluitans (Floating sweet-grass)

_Various successive aquatics and marginals in spring growth

_Vast amounts of tadpoles displaying life in the low lying pond

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