2024 County Report for Fife & Kinross

Sandy Edwards

Total number of records, 2953

NYPH 14

BSBI Field Meeting at Tentsmuir. This involved a wide range of people from advanced to beginners and was an opportunity for some identification learning. Also, a chance to see how a rapid change in habitat had affected the flora as this is a very well recorded area with a very large dune slack. Some local rarities such as Centaurium littorale (Seaside Centaury), Rumex hydrolapathum (Giant Water-dock), Parnassia palustris (Grass of Parnassus), Lathyrus japonicus (Sea Pea) (photo).  (See field Meeting Reports).

Liaison with Fife Local Conservation Sites. Updating plant records.

Two Identiplant students who did well.

Hamlyn Jones is now the joint recorder for vc85 and, with BSBI member Alison Davies, has produced a list of excursions for 2025. This will be sent to all vice-county members.

Scabiosa ochroleuca (Cream Scabious)

Only two records in the UK. Presumably a garden escape but the site in Tentsmuir is more than two miles from urban area. (Report sent to Aliens & Adventatives)

Laphangium luteoalbum. (Jersey Cudweed)

New to vc85. Two records

Gagea lutea (Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem)

Gone from only site in N Fife gone for many years. This a new site in S Fife.

Polypogon viridis (water Bent)

New record. At bus station so presumably come in from further west.

Hydrocharis morsus-ranae (Frogbit)

New record

Pucinellia viscosa (Yellow Bartsia)

A second site in vc85