Calamagrostis stricta in Easterness and Caithness

摘要

In August 2003, I carried out an intensive survey of Carex chordorrhiza (String Sedge) at the RSPB's Insh Marshes reserve, Easter-ness (v.c.96), where it is locally abundant and spreading. A point was made to visit Coul Fen, a site at the northeast end of this large area of northern marsh that floods naturally from the River Spey. It was here that Ruth Meyer discovered Calamagrostis striata (Narrow Small-reed) for the first time in Easterness, and a considerable distance from sites recorded in Caithness (v.c.109), Selkirkshire (v.c.79) and Ayrshire (v.c.75) in the New Atlas (Preston et al, 2002). With Carl Mitchell, then Site Manager, and Pete Moore, Warden of this RSPB nature reserve, we found two stands, one 35 x 14m and a second of 19 x 18m at grid ref. NH818037.