NT18 - You've sunk my Hellebore!

Went for a lunchtime wander around Aberdour, an old town with plentiful gardens and garden escape possibilities

It was mostly routine stuff. Oxford rag is shooting up all over the place right now, and there was plenty of that about. There's also a Myosotis (Forget-me-not), which I think is arvensis, that's filling many pavement edges. The leaves don't fit M.ramossissima (Early), so far as I can tell.

There's one passage parallel to the railway line where an embankment is dotted with various Cotoneasters. I haven't by any means figured all them out, and maybe I never will!

H.argutifolius

Best find was a flowering Corsican Hellebore (Helleborus argutifolius) that is perched oddly on top of an old wall. It seems that this is the only square in Fife where it has been recorded and, had I not gone down this exact backstreet, I would never otherwise have come across it.

BSBI Atlas square

That's species 287 for NT18 this year, and there may be one or two more still to ID from yesterday. If I really, really pushed it I might have been able to get to 300 by end of February. But I'm not going to.

In further news I discovered an old record of Siberian Squill at ... Cullaloe! By the entrance road!! That can't still be there. Can I really have been missing it for 30 years?

The Who aren't a band I think about very often, but somehow this song came to mind. Seek and ye shall find.