2023 County Report for Meath
Margaret Norton
BSBI Annual Report 2023 by Margaret Norton (VCR)
Botanical activities in 2023 included, but were not limited to, the following:
- Field recording: fourteen full days in the field focused on recording targeted taxa and exploring high quality habitats in Co. Meath.
- Collection and curation of specimens of critical groups to include the Dryopteris affinis complex, Ranunculus auricomus, Rosa, Taraxacum, Trichophorum and Epipactis (photos only) for determination.
- Two days of fieldwork (including one in Co. Meath) accompanying visiting Dryopteris experts Alison Evans and Roger Golding of the British Pteridological Society. A further two days were spent with the visitors on indoor determination sessions.
- One day in DBN herbarium extracting information on specimens from Co. Meath.
- Publication: Norton, M. (2023) Botanical records by William Arthur Barnes from Co. Meath (H22). Irish Botanical News, 33: 52-64.
- Publication: Norton, M. (2023) An annotated checklist of Potamogeton L. and Stuckenia Börner (Pondweeds) in Co. Meath (H22). Irish Botanical News, 33: 64-68.