On Thursday I popped to Inverkeithing just to fill in a gap. I know there are plants unique to here from NT18, at least in my limited experience. It's a heavily industrial area, with a large metal recycling plant - chopped metal being loaded onto boats, and a recently re-opened large quarry, with a nice pier area being brought into re-use and removing all my Viper's-bugloss (see previous post).
There wasn't much to raise hopes from the Viewranger map, but I spotted the edge of a pond with submerged greenery and forced my way through the trees
Google maps shows much more promise
and indeed when I (finally) found a path around the back of the pond it turned out that there's a very nice bit of habitat here shielded from the mud and dust of the neighbours by a small bit of woodland.
There's a lot of Bog Pondweed, some Water Plantain, Jointed Rush, and some nice marginal plants too. Some of those will need to be checked later as they're well out of season
The margins of one end of pond were liberally sprinkled with Large Bittercress (C.amara)
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