Above map shows all monads where 100+ species have been recorded since the year 2000.
The above chart:
Black columns – the average number of species recorded for
all monads where 100+ species recorded in a single visit in each calendar month
since the year 2000.
Red line – shows the number of days spent in each calendar
month since the year 2000 where 100+ species recorded on a single visit. Very interesting
to see that July has had so little recording compared to other summer months.
Recording took place over the whole year. Records were
received from 43 people besides me and my joint vice-county recorder Paula
O’Meara. The majority sent in records for the flower of the month the Wexford
Naturalists’ Field Club chose to record. This proved highly successfully and
popular amongst club members. Many monads had gaps filled for spring species
like Ficaria verna (Lesser Celandine)
where Paula and I had recorded at a time of year when it wasn’t showing.
53 new species and hybrids were added to the county
list, and if you include subspecies and varieties there were 86 new for Wexford.
Of these, only 6 were native:
Alchemilla
glabra (Smooth Lady's-mantle)
Atriplex
glabriuscula (Babington's Orache) x Atriplex prostrata (Spear-leaved Orache)
Atriplex
x hulmeana (Atriplex littoralis (Grass-leaved Orache) x Atriplex prostrata (Spear-leaved Orache)
Atriplex
longipes (Long-stalked Orache) x Atriplex littoralis (Grass-leaved Orache)
Rumex
x knafii (Rumex conglomeratus (Clustered Dock) x Rumex maritimus (Golden Dock)
Nitella
opaca (a Stonewort)
