2022 County Report for Monmouthshire
Stephanie Tyler and Elsa Wood
Annual Report 2022 vc35
We have jointly input 6369 records and received others from the local records centre, SEWBReC. Our focus has been on recording in poorly covered tetrads but also continuing our survey (started in 2021) of plants of arable fields. This year we extended the survey to cover allotments as well. We attended a Bioblitz near Newport organised by SEWBReC and we also led a course for SEWBReC on urban plants, in Abergavenny.
We organised monthly walks for the Monmouthshire Botany Group from April to September though one was cancelled due to the extreme heat.
We continue to work on a revised Rare Plant Register and we have taken out more than 30 species from our previous update as recent records mean that these species are no longer scarce, all having more than 10 records.
The highlights for 2022 have been written up for the SEWBReC newsletter, the next issue of the Welsh Bulletin and BSBI News but a few worth mentioning again are given below: