2024 County Report for Kintyre

Dave and Pat Batty

Recording was limited during the year due to other commitments and our intimation to retire. We are hopeful that new recorders will be found in 2025.
In late winter/early spring there were several storms which washed up large amounts of seaweed high up the beaches in Knapdale. During a visit to Danna two colonies, one large, of Bidens cernua (Nodding Bur-marigold) were found growing in this deposited seaweed. This is the first record since 2011.

Very few botanists visit Kintyre but we had a record from the island Sanda of Datura stramonium (Thorn-apple) on the coast. This is the first record for over 50 years. Another visitor found Reseda luteola (Weld) on the coast, only the fourth record for the VC and the first since 2002.

Another colony of Scrophularia auriculata (Water Figwort) extending along a ditch for c.100m was found in north Knapdale. There are only a few scattered records for this species but where it is present it can be extensive.