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March 2026
Field trip to Pottington, Barnstaple (Botany Section)
A chance for some early season urban botany. This early in the season the focus is on the identification of perennials and biennials in their overwintering forms, together with early flowering winter annuals and…
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Field trip to Farway Common Airfield (Botany Section)
Farway Common Airfield is a level site once a wet lowland heath site, now 12 hectares of unimproved grassland managed as a hay meadow for at least 50 years with two mown landing strips…
Find out more »Cancelled – Field trip to Hartland Quay (Botany Section)
Unfortunately this event had to be cancelled at short notice. Please contact the Section's Hon Secretary with any enquiries. This stretch of coast is a dramatic example of North Devon’s Atlantic shoreline. The visit…
Find out more »June 2026
Field trip to Branscombe Beach (Botany Section)
Branscombe Beach, East Devon. We will visit a recently managed area of coastal grassland owned by the National Trust to the west of the car park (along the coast path). The site is steep. We…
Find out more »A visit to Foxtor Mire (Botany Section)
A visit to Foxtor Mire, Swincombe. The site is rich in sedges, the most interesting record being White Sedge (Carex canescens). Access is by walking across the open moor and streams, so not for…
Find out more »Field trip to Gilmour & Moorlands & Fox Covert (Botany Section)
Gilmour & Moorlands & Fox Covert near Sampford Courtney. Mix of culm grassland/scrub and woodland (SSSI and CWS). The entrance to the site itself is at SX6359098547 where there is only room for 2…
Find out more »July 2026
Urban botany in Plymouth (Botany Section)
A walk from Devonport through Mount Wise to Stonehouse. As well as a good variety of urban plants, we should also encounter Spiny Restharrow (Ononis spinosa), Yellow-wort (Blackstonia perfoliate) and Hawkweed Oxtongue (Picris hieracioides).…
Find out more »Field trip to Cox Tor (Botany Section)
There are two or three good boggy areas, some heathland with chance of Dodder (Cuscuta europaea) and an opportunity to climb the Tor in search of Beech Fern (Phegopteris connectilis). Meet at 11 am…
Find out more »Collaven Moor DWT reserve (Botany Section)
A field trip to Collaven Moor DWT reserve. This is a new DWT reserve (purchased in 2025) adjacent to Sourton Quarry. It is both a species rich and herb rich Culm grassland site with…
Find out more »Field trip to Southdown Farm (Botany Section)
A field trip to Southdown Farm, near Malborough. Arable and coastal habitats. We will be joined by Emma, the National Trust Ranger. Meet at Southdown Farm, Malborough, Kingsbridge TQ7 3DU. Botany Section events are…
Find out more »Field trip to Higher House Waste (Botany Section)
A visit to see some good quality mire communities, where White Beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba) and Pale Butterwort (Pinguicula lusitanica) have both been recorded. Meet in Cornwood Village Hall car park (W3W ///plates.picnic.refrain SX60695980) for…
Find out more »August 2026
Braunton Burrows (Botany Section)
A field meeting at Braunton Burrows (southern end) jointly led by Andy Byfield and Mary Breeds to study/look at the colonisation of the dune slacks that were scraped as part of the Dynamic Dunescapes…
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