Flowers of the forest : plants and people in the New Forest National Park / Clive Chatters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chatters, Clive, author.

Series:

WILDGuides

WILDGuides ; v.52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wild flowers--England.

Wild flowers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Place of Publication:

Old Basing, Hampshire : Wildguides, [2009]

Summary:

This book explores the botanical richness and cultural heritage of the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. The New Forest has become an exceptional area for wildflowers, many of which were once common throughout the lowlands of Britain. The Forest enjoys strong populations of many special wildflowers because it retains a living tradition of free-ranging domestic animals grazing its coastland, extensive commons, and village greens. This book is an exploration of how the wildlife of the Forest is the natural expression of the lives and economy of the people of the Forest. An introduction to the New Forest and how its commoning economy works A description of the principal habitats of the Forest and how they relate to one another Accounts of the people who have explored the Forest for wildflowers from the early 17th century to the present Descriptions of more than 100 species of the rarer flowering plants and ferns currently known from the National Park, many of which are nationally or internationally rare, scarce, or threatened An account of Forest conservation issues by someone who has participated in the life of the Forest for more than 20 years

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Intentions and definitions

An Introduction to the New Forest National Park

How the Open Forest works

Geology

A botanical overview

See for yourself

For the record

Lower plants

The Open Forest

The woods of the Open Forest

The Christmas Green Oaks

Woodland management

Ancient trees

Woodland wildflowers

Scrub

Brambles

Roses

Ferns

Heaths and Bogs

Drainage

Management

The marl heaths

The sandy heaths

Northern species of the Open Forest

Disturbance and upheavals on the heaths

Summer Lady’s-tresses: a national extinction

Cottongrasses and Beavers

Dwarf shrubs

Finding Early Gentians: X marks the spot

In amongst the Bracken

Grasslands

Lawns

Village Greens

Streamside lawns

Woodland lawns

The Re-seeds

Open Forest Ponds and Rivers

The rivers

The many names of the Lymington River

Forest ponds

Forest ponds and the Avon Valley

The Coastal Open Forest

The Coast

The Coast: an introduction

Below the tide

The wooded marsh

Saltmarsh and strandline

A life in gravel

Hurst Spit: Ray and Parkinson

Tom Tiddler’s Ground

Mulberrys, sauce and spider-orchids

Cultivation and cliffs

Grazing marshes

The Enclosed Countryside

Within the hedges

Sowley Pond

Suburban life

The Avon Valley

Arable losses

Looking forward

Appendix 1 Find out more

Appendix 2 A list of the rare, scarce and Red List vascular plants currently found within the New Forest National Park

Appendix 3 Some of the more frequently found plants in selected habitats around the New Forest

Appendix 4 Gazetteer of place names referred to in the text

Appendix 5 New Forest National Park: Facts and Figures

Appendix 6 Forest Code (Out and About)

Acknowledgements

Photographic and artwork credits

Index of English and Scientific Names

Index of People’s Names This

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691237602

0691237603

OCLC:

1273980189