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 REVISED LIST OF WAYSIDE RESERVES IN EMSWORTH

The total number of plants recorded on each site is shown in red.

Click on the blue link for more information on each site plus the list of plants

1. Bridge Road Nature Reserve = 136 . . . (126 this year)

2. Westbourne open space = 60

3. Roadside embankment A259 - adjacent to Belcher and Frost = 57

4. Junction of Horndean Road and New Brighton Road = 44

5. Footpath from Washington Road to the Emsworth Recreation Ground = 68

6. Dolphin Creek path = 47

7. Emsworth Recreation Ground - NW corner = 66

8. Hollybank Recreation Ground - SW corner = 38

9. Greville Green west = 32

10. Footpath from Southleigh Road to Barwell Grove = 35

11. Havant Road verge - top of Valetta Park = 42

12. Southleigh Road (west) = 78

13. Christopher Way verge = 27

14. Horndean Road north verge = 50 - New wayside added by HBC in June 2010

EMSWORTH WAYSIDES LEAGUE TABLE

based on number of plants detected to August 2010

1. Bridge Road Nature Reserve = 136

2. Southleigh Road (west) = 78

3. Footpath from Washington Rd to the Emsworth Rec Ground = 68

3. Emsworth Recreation Ground - NW corner = 66

5. Westbourne open space = 60

6. Roadside embankment A259 - adjacent to Belcher and Frost = 57

7 . Horndean Road north - 50

8. Dolphin Creek path = 47

9. Junction of Horndean Road and New Brighton Road = 44

10. Havant Road verge - top of Valetta Park = 42

11. Hollybank Recreation Ground - SW corner = 38

12. Footpath from Southleigh Road to Barwell Grove = 35

13. Greville Green west - 32

14. Christopher Way verge = 27

LIST OF ALL PLANTS RECORDED ON THE WAYSIDES - to 2 September 2010.

The following table shows all the plants that have been recorded on the 14 Emsworth Waysides together with the number of waysides having each of the plants.

The total number of different species recorded = 224. The grand total of plants recorded = 739

ENGLISH NAMES OF PLANTS

NUMBER OF WAYSIDES

Annual Mercury

9

Apple

2

Ash

10

Autumn Hawkbit

10

Balm

2

Barren Brome

7

Bay

3

Beaked Hawk's-beard

5

Bird's-foot Trefoil

3

Bittersweet

5

Black Bent-grass

2

Black Bryony

1

Black Knapweed

6

Black Medick

7

Black Nightshade

1

Blackthorn

1

Blue Water Speedwell (hybrid)

1

Bluebell (hybrid species)

2

Bramble

11

Bread Wheat

3

Bristly Ox-tongue

5

Broad-leaved Dock

7

Broad-leaved Willowherb

6

Buckshorn Plantain

3

Buddleja sp.

3

Bulbous Buttercup

1

Bulrush

1

Butcher's-broom

1

Butterfly Bush sp

1

Celery-leaved Buttercup

1

Cherry Plum

1

Cleavers

8

Clustered Dock

1

Cocksfoot

10

Common Bent-grass ?

1

Common Cat's-ear

2

Common Chickweed

3

Common Comfrey

1

Common Couch

3

Common Elm

2

Common Field Speedwell

4

Common Fleabane

5

Common Gorse

2

Common Lime

3

Common Mallow

5

Common Mouse-ear

9

Common Nettle

10

Common Orache

4

Common Ragwort

8

Common Saltmarsh-grass

1

Common Sorrel

2

Common Stork's-bill

1

Common Toadflax

1

Common Vetch

1

Compact Rush

1

Cotoneaster

1

Cow Parsley

4

Creeping Bent-grass

9

Creeping Buttercup

10

Creeping Cinquefoil

8

Creeping Thistle

7

Crested Dog's-tail

1

Cuckooflower

1

Cultivated Flax

1

Curled Dock

6

Cut-leaved Crane's-bill

6

Daffodil

1

Daisy

8

Dandelion

13

Dog Rose

3

Dogwood

2

Dove's-foot Cranesbill

6

Elder

1

English Oak

3

Escallonia

1

False Brome

2

False Fox Sedge

1

False Oat-grass

9

Fat Hen

2

Feverfew

1

Field Bindweed

4

Field Forget-me-not

1

Field Madder

1

Field Maple

4

Field Wood-rush

1

Fool's Parsley

2

Fool's Water-cress

1

Forsythia

1

Garden Cranesbill

1

Garden Leek

1

Garlic Mustard

7

Gipsywort

1

Goat Willow

1

Great Willowherb

4

Greater Plantain

7

Grey Sedge

3

Ground-elder

1

Ground Ivy

1

Groundsel

5

Guernsey Fleabane

2

Hairy Bittercress

1

Hard Rush

1

Hawthorn

7

Hazel

1

Hedge Bindweed

5

Hedge Mustard

5

Hedge Parsley

2

Hedge Woundwort

4

Hemlock Water-dropwort

4

Herb-Robert

3

Hoary Ragwort

1

Hogweed

6

Holly

2

Hollyhock

1

Honeysuckle

2

Ivy

12

Ivy-leaved Toadflax

3

Japanese Knotweed

2

Knotgrass

5

Knotted Hedge-parsley ?

1

Large Bindweed

4

Lesser Burdock

2

Lesser Celandine

5

Lesser Hawkbit

1

Lesser Sea-spurrey

1

Lesser Swine-cress

3

Lords and Ladies

4

Many-seeded Goosefoot

1

Marsh Foxtail

1

Meadow Buttercup

5

Meadow Fescue ?

1

Meadow Foxtail

2

Meadow Vetchling

1

Michaelmas Daisy

1

Mugwort

3

Narrow-leaved Water-plantain

1

Nipplewort

7

Norway Spruce

1

Oil-seed Rape

3

Opium Poppy

2

Oxeye Daisy

3

Pale Persicaria

1

Pansy species

1

Pellitory-of-the-wall

2

Pendulous Sedge

2

Perennial Ryegrass

11

Perennial Sow-thistle

3

Perforate St John's-wort

1

Petty Spurge

4

Pineappleweed

2

Plicate Sweet-grass

1

Portugal Laurel

1

Prickly Lettuce

3

Prickly Sow-thistle

7

Procumbent Pearlwort

1

Purple Toadflax

5

Red Bartsia

1

Red Clover

7

Red Dead-nettle

1

Red Fescue ?

6

Red Goosefoot

1

Red Valerian

1

Redshank

1

Remote Sedge

2

Ribwort Plantain

11

Rose sp

2

Rough Chervil

1

Rough Hawkbit

2

Rough Meadow-grass

5

Scarlet Pimpernel

1

Scented Mayweed

1

Scentless Mayweed

7

Sea Beet

1

Sea Couch

1

Sea Mayweed

1

Sea Plantain

1

Sea-buckthorn

1

Self-heal

7

Shepherd's-purse

6

Silver Birch

1

Silverweed

3

Slender Speedwell

1

Smaller Cat's-tail

2

Smooth Hawk's-beard

4

Smooth Sow-thistle

9

Snowberry

1

Soft Brome

5

Spanish Bluebell

1

Spear Thistle

8

Spear-leaved Orache

3

Spotted Medick

2

Stone Parsley

4

Sweet Vernal Grass

1

Sweet Violet

2

Sycamore

4

Tall Fescue

4

Thale Cress

1

Three-cornered Leek

1

Thyme-leaved Speedwell

2

Timothy

7

Tree Mallow

1

Tufted Vetch

1

Turkey Oak

1

Vervain

1

Wall Barley

10

Wall Lettuce

1

Wall Speedwell

1

Water Figwort

1

Water Mint

1

Water-cress

1

White Campion

1

White Clover

9

White Dead-nettle

3

White Poplar

3

Wild Clary

1

Wild Carrot

2

Winter Heliotrope

4

Wintercress (Early)

1

Wood Avens

5

Wood Dock

7

Wood Speedwell

1

Yarrow

9

Yew

1

Yorkshire Fog

9