Frampton Natural History Pages

These plants are mostly plentiful throughout the Frampton area depending on the time of year  There are, of course, many more species and the selection will continue to grow with time. They have all been photographed in the wild by DS over a number of years with a variety of cameras, none expensive. They are in no particular order but usually when I photographed them except for better replacement shots

I use Roger Phillips' Wild Flowers of Britain & Garrad & Streeter's Wild Flowers of the British Isles as references with assistance from Harry Grenville

Himalayan Balsam

Yellow Iris

Marsh Marigold

Ramsons

Foxglove

Primrose

Snowdrop

Meadowsweet

Celandine

Bramble

Yellow Vetch

These species often have particular preferences

Teasel

Bistort

Spear Thistle

Poppy

any ideas on what this is, seen briefly in Frampton Park, then flood clearance destroyed it

Trees, Fruits & Ferns

Old Man's Beard

Violet

Fleabane

Silverweed

Marjoram

Bugle

Knapweed

When the pavement was constructed through the village, in 2003, there was a strip of ground between the two fences on the water meadow side where they built up the levels with soil from the field on the south side of the river.

Harry Grenville patrolled it and produced a list of all the plants that grew there in the first year.  As you can see from these photographs I took at the time, there was a colourful variety of plants

Link to full list of species

Bluebell

Ragged Robin

Rosebay Willowherb

Water Crowfoot

Reed Mace

Ground Ivy

Forget-me-not

Germander Speedwell

Hedge Bindweed

Coltsfoot

Buttercup

Stitchwort

Dandelion

White Dead Nettle

Mayweed

Whitebell

Campion

Field Vetch

Groundsel

Lady's Smock

Lady's Bedstraw

Hogweed

Herb Robert

Daisy

Early Purple

Greater Twayblades

Common Spotted

Goatsbeard

Purple Loosestrife

Harebell

Chickory

Cow Parsley

Garlic Mustard

Cowslip

Wood Avens/Herb Bennett

Burdock

Fumitory

Red Clover

Horsetails

Horsetails have long been one of my favourite plants. I have 300 million year old fossils of these from the Somerset coalfields

Black Medick

Birdsfoot-trefoil

Orchids

Water Speedwell

Mountain/Hedgerow Cranesbill

Hemlock

Cut-leaved Cranesbill

Red-veined Dock

White Clover

Sowthistle

Horse shoe Vetch

Cleavers

Plants in or close to water

Frampton Index

Natural History Index

The background photo is from a pony paddock at Frampton House May 2008

Ivy leaved toadflax

Nostoc (a blue-green algae): found on Peacock Bridge & Sheridan Close.  It shrivels and dries out in hot, dry weather but restores itself when it rains

Sticky Mouse-ear

Field Bindweed much smaller and often pink

Mallow

Dog Rose

Gromwell

A large untidy plant easily overlooked.. I know of three plants in Frampton but there are masses of them in Yellowham woods off the dual carriageway

Scarlet Pimpernel

Welted Thistle

Woundwort

Comfrey

These were growing on Peacock Bridge and further up the track but the road widening and pavement operations wiped them out.  The bridge was cleared of 'weeds' and the lorries removing soil from the field to build up the road edge went through the fence at exactly the 'wrong' spot.

They are supposed to be common but I have found only one more plant in the Frampton area (so far!).

I went to photograph a stand of Welted Thistles late one afternoon. As I did so mayflies started to land on them which gave me two 'prizes' for the price of one.  A very satisfactory outcome especially as mayflies are not usually the easiest of species to photograph.

Hawkweed

Persian Speedwell

Woody Nightshade

again few and far between, one at Frampton, one at Stratton and one above Buckland Newton

Feverfew

Scabious

St John's Wort

Stemless Thistle

Borage