I'm doing an NVC survey of Wansford Pasture for the Wildlife Trust, and today I made my first visit to map the vegetation boundaries and produce community species lists. The site was looking good, with significant numbers of orchids. I recorded four species (Dactylorhiza praetermissa, D.fuchsii, D.incarnata and Ophrys apifera) and at least two hybrids.
But the most exciting find of the day was much less showy - two good colonies of flat-sedge Blysmus compressus at its only site in the Peterborough area. Though the equally understated bristle club-rush Isolepis setacea was also a pleasing find.
Flat-sedge Blysmus compressus
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