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All records verified by A. J. Richards The season started on the 14th March for me 14th March 2024 VC23 Arncott Taraxacum trilobatum SP6110 1801 VC23 Arncott Locn. Grassy Roadside (Unmown) Wide purple petioles with wide wings, hairy, blotched dirty green leaves with large teeth. Terminal lobes with lingulate tip. Bracts long and narrow. Taraxacum angustisquameum SP6100 1812 VC23 Arncott Locn. Grassy Roadside (Unmown) Small and prostrate with small narrow spreading / clawed bracts, dark green some blotching, short acute terminal lobes, deltoid. Taraxacum subhamatum SP6073 1829 VC23 Arncott Locn. Grassy Roadside (Unmown) Robust, unbordered bracts and extenuate pointy tips to the leaves. Doesn’t seem to have any colour to the ligule tips? Taraxacum sellandii SP6094 1820 VC23 Arncott Locn. Grassy Roadside (Unmown) Those hooked lower lobes with big teeth and wide triangular terminal lobes suggest sellandii to me. Young bracts not classic Taraxacum cophocentrum SP6112 1797 VC23 Arncott Locn. Grassy Roadside (Unmown) These leaves were around in February. Bracts aren’t classic 16th March 2024 VC9 Dorset Taraxacum britannicum SZ0277 7915 VC9 Swanage Pavement edge Ligule stripes brown with blackish ends, dark stigmas. Narrow edge to bracts. Taraxacum cornubiense SZ 0287 7916 VC9 Swanage Under hedgerows There were some pale plants and mid green plants – I put this down to age / soil condition. I was expecting more red on the stripes and ligule tips but none of them seemed to have that – ligule stripes were brown so perhaps that comes with age. Achenes had cones and bracts spreading / arcuate rather than erect. Petioles green and midribs purple threaded Taraxacum leucopodum SZ 0286 7916 VC9 Swanage Under hedgerows I found this species in quite a few places. It had remarkably long twisted, multidirectional, interwoven bracts. The petioles were white with long broad wings, green midribs. The leaves were bright green, highly crisped and lateral leaf lobes multidirectional, toothed and lecerate and some with linear processes that expanded at the end Terminal lobes were also pretty much heterphyllous with long lingulate tip Taraxacum lamprophyllum SZ 0305 7920 VC9 Swanage Unmown park Large bordered bracts Taraxacum hamiferum SZ 0300 7921 VC9 Swanage Unmown park Small Hamata with very hooked regular lobes 'Wing-nuts' and clearly bordered bracts Taraxacum hamatum SZ 0270 7899 VC9 Swanage Pavement edge Unbordered erect spreading bracts 17th March 2024 Taraxacum stenacrum (no pollen) ST47320 18323 VC5 Stoke-sub-Hamdon Garage forecourt grassy area Section Stenacra with no pollen but could be due to the weather Taraxacum atrocollinum ST 2466 1595 VC5 Staple Hill Car Park and lots around this area Pollen plentiful, dark styles, 3-4 lateral lobes, glabrous. Long ovate narrowly bordered bracts Ligule stripes pale grey lower, brown distal Taraxacum marklundii ST 2465 1596 VC5 Staple Hill Car Park Taraxacum subhamatum ST 2463 1598 VC5 Staple Hill Car Park Interlobes blotched and narrow lobes seem bordered Taraxacum acutifrons ST 2466 1600 VC5 Staple Hill Car Park Buds looked Hamata but has smudged midrib edges and green/white petioles Taraxacum amicorum ST 2352 2444 VC5 Taunton Churchyard Frequent in this churchyard and along the pavement! Taraxacum sahlinianum ST 2354 2446 VC5 Taunton Churchyard A young plant 22nd March 2024 Taraxacum coartatum SP 6114 1797 VC23 Arncott Roadside verge Reddish tips to inner florets and inner petioles pink Taraxacum intumescens SP 610 180 VC23 Arncott Roadside verge Taraxacum insigne SP 6110 1802 VC23 Arncott Roadside verge Taraxacum planum SP 6099 1812 VC23 Arncott Pavement edge Mid-dark green leaves and the lobes are quite extreme Taraxacum sublaeticolor SP 6098 1815 VC23 Arncott Pavement edge Group Alatum with some forward pointing lobes, narrow winged petioles and a single subdivision in end lobe. Taraxacum longisquameum SP 6092 1824 VC23 Arncott Pavement edge Sagittate lobes Taraxacum dilaceratum SP 6084 1832 VC23 Arncott Pavement edge Humped and lobe doubling – only a little hairy. Prostrate rosette Taraxacum aequilobum SP 6054 1919 22/3/2024 VC23 Ambrosden Roadside verge Twisted bracts 23rd March 2024 Taraxacum horridifrons SP 5718 2117 VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride Unmown roadside verge Broad Alata lobes and hairy leaves. Some lobes are doubled Taraxacum pannulatiforme SP 5719 2118 VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride Unmown roadside verge Dark green, no colour in petioles, crisped slight blotching to interlobes Taraxacum boekmanii SP 5719 2118 VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride Unmown roadside verge Possibly the most numerous species at this location still a lot of young plants Taraxacum acutifrons SP 5720 2119 VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride Unmown roadside verge Can look mid green. Bracts are triangular green above (not pruinose) – really distinctive. Distant lateral lobes with broad / humped base to long narrow processes – acute tip. Crisped blotched interlobes. Terminal lobe long / pointed lingulate with some subdivision. Long green winged petioles Taraxacum interveniens SP 5720 2120 VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride Unmown roadside verge Onion spire lobes - Noticing this is quite an early species. Taraxacum sublongisquameum SP 5720 2119 VC23 Bicester Village Park & Ride Unmown roadside verge Those incredible bracts and sagittate lobes 27th March 2024 Taraxacum undulatiflorum SP 5911 2118 VC23 Bicester Graven Hill Roundabout Grassy verge Similar to T chloroticum but lateral lobes not pointed enough Taraxacum spiculatum SP 5911 2119 VC23 Bicester Graven Hill Roundabout Grassy verge Its Hamata Taraxacum densilobum SP 5914 2117 VC23 Bicester Graven Hill Roundabout Grassy verge There were two adjacent plants - this is the better one Taraxacum hamatiforme SP 5914 2117 VC23 Bicester Graven Hill Roundabout Grassy verge Bright purple midrib and petioles. Distant narrow shiny lateral lobes cut to the midrib 30th March 2024 Went over to Bristol for a few hours and met up with Dylan Peters. Everything was very well grown here. Maybe go mid March next year Taraxacum incisum ST 5614 7448 VC34 Bristol Roadside grassy verge Taraxacum pallidipes ST 5615 7446 VC34 Bristol Roadside grassy verge No bract borders and no colour to petioles Sagittate lobes and spreading narrow bracts Taraxacum huelphersianum ST 5613 7448 VC34 Bristol Roadside grassy verge Broad stellate dumpy bracts and ‘Poirot moustache’ lobes. Erect plant Taraxacum speciosiflorum ST 6105 7523 VC34 Bristol Tesco carpark Not quite right for T hepaticum. Jagged occasional indents to broad terminal lobes first caught my eye. Bordered bracts No pollen!!! There was quite a large group of plants here Taraxacum lingulatum ST 6125 7524 VC34 Bristol Edge of Park – unmown Pale green reflexed bracts, unblotched interlobes, purple tinted midribs and pale petioles Taraxacum longisquameum ST 6126 7524 VC34 Bristol Edge of Park – unmown Small mid/dark green decumbent plant Taraxacum subexpallidum ST 61264 75243 30/03/2024 VC34 Bristol Edge of Park – unmown Sub-divided end lobes and greenish unwinged petioles and sigmoid bracts Taraxacum amplum ST 61336 75211 30/03/2024 VC34 Bristol Edge of Park – unmown Distinctly winged petioles. Bordered reflexed bracts very distinctive Taraxacum multicolorans ST 5897 7663 VC34 Bristol Roadside verge ‘nature reserve’ Dylan took me to see this splendid plant. A few others growing there. 1st April 2024 Taraxacum huelphersianum SP 6110 1796 VC23 Arncott Edge of my driveway! and a VC23 tick for me Been watching this for a while 4th April 2024 Taraxacum exacutum SP 5891 2089 VC23 Bicester - Graven Hill Edge of pavement Got excited about this being T mimulum but bracts broad stellate and end lobes more sagittate than diamond 7th April 2024 Taraxacum oxoniense TF 8908 4489 VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes Edge of sandy track I’d forgotten how big and striking these can get. This was typical of the plants in the dunes and probably the most frequent species Taraxacum lacistophyllum TF 8908 4492 VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes Edge of sandy track Classic shaped leaf with long ligules and curled bracts. Taraxacum fulviforme TF 8908 4492 VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes Edge of sandy track No Pollen. Spade shaped terminal (acute subdivision) lobes with 3-4 lobes. Bracts spreading with fine border. Lateral lobes hooked back with acute tips – entire. Narrow green petiole unwinged (narrow parallel wing) some pink Taraxacum arenastrum TF 8904 4501 VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes Sand dune grass This was a common form on the dunes with a more neutral purple / pink petiole and reflexed lateral lobes. "It has a different phenotype in sand rather than turf but the heads are similar" AJR pers com. Taraxacum inopinatum TF 8910 4508 VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes Sand dune grass Nice to find this. About 5 plants in front of a rabbit burrow. No pollen Taraxacum brachyglossum TF 8910 4508 VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes Sand dune grass Next to the inopinatum several rosettes. Lovely to see these perfect plants with their purple arched /recurved bracts and delicate symmetrical dark green leaves. Normally stunted Taraxacum fulvum (Maybe) TF 89111 45125 VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes Sand dune grass No pollen. Several plants, bracts unbordered and erect / spreading. Stigmas very dark and brownish ligule stripes. Not typical Taraxacum lambinonii TF 8911 4512 VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes Sand dune grass Narrower patent lobes. No pollen Taraxacum falcatum TF 8911 4512 VC28 Holkham beach sand dunes Sand dune grass Lateral lobes very long and curled – narrow then thicken. Some double lobing. Petioles green, short unwinged. Some terminal lobes triangular " 'British falcatum' Danish stuff has coloured petioles but it is v similar. Look in Sandmaskrosor" AJR pers com. 12th April 2014 Taraxacum subbracteatum SP 5636 1747 VC23 Nr Wendlebury Species rich ridge/furrow meadow Lobe doubling and unbordered bracts Taraxacum subundulatum SP 5640 1765 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow A Mead species Taraxacum oellgaardii SP 5640 1765 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow A typical example Taraxacum marklundii SP 5640 1765 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow This is the ‘common’ unbordered Hamata in the meadow. Dull bluish green leaves with dentate distal edge 05,15 Taraxacum fulgidum SP 564 176 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow Typical ‘good’ plant – had to be photograped. Numerous in the meadow. I like the way it always has one bract that stays erect, bluish leaves and muscly lobes. What I’m seeing is that the later leaves tend to develop more of a rounded end lobe and deeper purple petioles Taraxacum bracteatum SP 5643 1767 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow Erect bracts and dark green leaves with broad triangular lateral lobes. I don’t think I’ve recorded bracteatum here Taraxacum excellens SP 5643 1767 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow End lobe is triangular Taraxacum diastematicum SP 5646 1766 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow Long , pinkish and recurved bracts. Purple petioles with narrow green wing.  Does have diamond shaped terminal lobes and some double lobing. Scape doesn’t seem to fit the leaves so a bigger plant out of the Meads. Taraxacum sublaeticolor SP 564 176 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow Quite a few in the ‘good’ areas so feels like a Mead native.  Pollen plentiful. Spreading (sub-erect) recurved bracts Petioles white / Green unwinged, Midribs whitish but often a little staining (maybe disease) Glabrous leaves very noteworthy as is the broad humped lobes Also an subdivided spade shaped (acute tipped) end lobe Taraxacum anglicum SP 5646 1766 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow Apple shaped, glabrous edged, unbordered dark green bracts. Yellow stigmas with pollen Taraxacum palustre SP 5649 1766 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow Note a more pink than red (anglicum) tone to the scape colour. Taraxacum tamesense SP 5652 1770 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow A well developed plant with blotched interlobes, Dark green leaves. Bracts (like fulgidum) always seem to keep a couple sub-erect Taraxacum akteum SP 5652 1770 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow Had to be lurking somewhere. Taraxacum valens SP 5650 1765 VC23 Wendlebury Mead Species rich water meadow Dark broad bordered bracts on the bud, triangular end lobe and a tooth on the lower lateral lobes. Typical Mead species Taraxacum ancistrolobum SP 5603 1666 VC23 Nr Wendlebury Grassy verge to track 14th April 2024 Norfolk A day out with Russell Ness and Simon Pavlou (Pav) Taraxacum acutifidum TL 8806 8327 VC28 Thetford Pavement edge Has 4+/- lateral lobes.  Triangular terminal lobe, leaves dark-green patent Taraxacum exacutum TL 8802 8326 VC28 Thetford Pavement edge Narrow wings on some petioles. Taraxacum parnassicum TL 9557 8068 VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area Grass patch next to car park. Sub-obtuse mid green. No pollen and short/mid-length ligules (hooded). Arcuate bracts with narrow border Taraxacum aff. rubicundum TL 9557 8068 VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area Grass patch next to car park "Something Special" Bracts are erect on these plants and underside border to bracts broad. distinct and ligules long with very dark stripes. Scapes glabrous, pollen present Taraxacum fulvum TL 9557 8072 VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area Grass patch next to car park No pollen Taraxacum scanicum TL 9558 8067 VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area Grass patch next to car park Long lingulate end lobe (subdivided). Pollen present Taraxacum polyodon TL 9548 8071 VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area Under Pines next to car park Tiny stunted plants seem to be numerous in these habitats Taraxacum tortilobum TL 9557 8068 VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area Grass patch next to car park 3 plants were found. Arachnoid-hairy plants with dark purple petioles and midribs. Very distinctive contorted leaf shape and twisted long teeth. The lateral lobes are very broad based and ligule stripes are brownish. Pollen present but sparse Taraxacum fulvum TL 9549 8066 VC28 Knettishall Picnic Area Grass patch next to car park No pollen. Same as plants on Holkham dunes 14th April 2024 Suffolk Taraxacum scanicum TL 8000 7051 VC26 Lackford Lakes Edge of entrance road Long subdivided lingulate end lobes. Bracts pale green, straight, erect/spreading, clear border and more linear edges Taraxacum lambinonii TL 8000 7051 VC26 Lackford Lakes Edge of entrance road Again! This plant lacked pollen and had erect ovate bracts. Taraxacum glauciniforme TL 7999 7057 VC26 Lackford Lakes Edge of car park No pollen, stigmas yellow, petioles purple with narrow wings. Taraxacum rubicundum TL 7883 7153 VC26 Ramparts Field Short rabbit grazed heath Scape is glabrous and ligules quite long. Bracts erect. Ligule stripes are brownish. Pollen is plentiful (we get that in the UK) Taraxacum lacistophyllum TL 7879 7151 VC26 Ramparts Field Short rabbit grazed heath Very elongated lobes similar to falcatum. On top of rabbit burrow so maybe enriched. Taraxacum brachyglossum TL 768 733 VC26 Icklingham Short rabbit grazed heath Broad short terminal lobes, falcate acute lateral lobes, mid / dark green leaves. Upper bract edges are distinctly fine bordered on this population. Pollen plentiful 5th May 2024 VC70 Cumbria Taraxacum olgae NY 283 595 VC70 Drumburgh Coastal grassland A selection of spotty and blotched plants with narrow green erect bracts Taraxacum naevosiforme NY 2839 5953 VC70 Drumburgh Coastal grassland Its dark greyish green and hairy! and the bracts are spreading and sub-erect. The slugs had nibbled all the ligules tips off! Taraxacum hamiferum NY 283 595 VC70 Drumburgh Coastal grassland Pollen present.  Stigmas not very dark, +/-bordered bracts, bluish green. Doing an impression of a Celtica Taraxacum pseudolarsonii NY 098 513 VC70 Silloth Beach / edge of sand dunes Occasional plants all along the dunes Taraxacum pannulatum NY 09667 50859 VC70 Silloth Beach / edge of sand dunes Extenuate terminal lobe and bracts spreading – recurved violet above with slight border.  Petioles pale outers, pink inners Taraxacum euryphyllum NY 098 513 VC70 Silloth Beach / edge of sand dunes Occasional plants all along the dunes Taraxacum longisquameum NY 0987 5158 VC70 Silloth Sand dunes Shocking purple +/- unwinged petioles and dark interlobe blotches. Acute tipped end lobe Taraxacum pietii-oosterveldii NY 0999 5170 VC70 Silloth Sand dunes Scapes and leaves very hairy – only one of leaves has forward pointing lateral lobes Taraxacum haworthianum NY 1002 5161 VC70 Silloth Sand dunes A few plants present Midribs hairy and some purple, lateral lobes slightly hooked. Achenes are dark purple. The reddish/violet ligule stripes and putple/red ligule teeth (inner too) Appressed bordered bracts with dark purple corniculate tips Taraxacum sublaeticolor NY 0998 5161 VC70 Silloth Sand dunes Has pollen had long ligules with pale violet-grey stripes. Bracts were striking green sub-erect! globrous scapes and leaves Taraxacum duplidentifrons NY 1710 3131 VC70 Cockermouth Edge of woods Pollen present, hairy with dark ligule tips Taraxacum hamatum NY 1700 3131 VC70 Cockermouth Edge of woods Pollen present, purple midribs, dark spreading (older) erect (younger flower) bracts. Proximal edge to lateral lobes convex - 'rather typical' Taraxacum sagittipotens NY 1707 3129 VC70 Cockermouth Edge of woods Homophyllous pale green leaves. Bracts are narrow

A couple of days of hawkweeds around Kinlochleven and Glencoe 17th - 20th July In the town itself Hieracium triviale was common on the walls but almost all plants were very munched by deer. The flower heads are smaller and tend to show less simple and more glandular hairs. The leaf shape remains distinctive. Along the river and along some of the river footpaths, Hieracium subcrocatum from section Foliosa was common. Very dark styles and large flower head. There were 2 distinct types, one with more oval leaves and nearer the water it tended to have more linear leaves. BB:"Not enough longer simple hairs for strictiforme on bracts etc. H subcrocatum can have occasional to few simple on the bracts.(And also more rarely on the peduncles)" In the car park behind the post office there was yellow styled Hieracium latobrigorum (now lanceolatifolium) some plants lacking the distinctive veined rhomboid leaves and having more plain ovate leaves. BB: "a variable plant in leaf shape, even in a single colony" On the 18th July I explored along the B863 and found some Hieracium sparsifolium. A member of section Tridentata with spotted leaves. More munched triviale on the small roadside cliffs. Had some time at Glencoe Mountain Resort on 19/7/2023. Near the car park there was more Hieracium triviale and Hieracium lanceolatifolium. I headed up the ski lift and to the top of Meall a' Bhuiridh. Growing on the south facing rocks at 1050metres, with its chunky flower heads, yellow styles and lustrous hairy green leaves was a patch of Hieracium alpinum Nearby was a single dark styled, slender, Hieracium tenuifrons nestled next to an old iron pipe Walking back down to the top of Allt nan Giuthas stream, plants from section Subalpina were at NN25966169. Hieracium lingulatum with its narrow glaucous hairy leaves. "This one of the most common of the Sub-alpina Group. Sell got the length of the glandular hairs wrong. Most are short, but a few can be up to around 0.8mm or occasionally longer." The next plant I looked at was a mystery subalpina, it could be callistophyllum although the leaves were hairy and slightly glaucous with more rounded / sub-truncate at the base and less pronounced teeth. There were some stellate hairs along the edges of the obtuse bracts. A little further down the endemic Hieracium ochthophilum was numerous. With glabrous glaucous leaves and large dark styled flowers.BB:"slightly more vigorous than the one I collected nearby with larger teeth, but it matches very well even so." The other frequent hawkweed at the top of the gully was Hieracium callistophyllum. BB:"This has a few large heads, sharp regular teeth along the leaves and few very short glandular hairs on the bracts and peduncles. Both dasythrix and kingshousense have small heads and lack the regular teeth ". Leaves had cuneate bases There was a patch of section Alpina near the top of the gully but all were over. They matched Hieracium holosericum I will have to return a week earlier in 2024. Our last day was in Edinburgh and along the road next to Waverley Station was a strange plant from section Sabauda - although very early in flower. Its leaves were long and lanceolate mid stem and the bracts glabrous. It was determined as Hieracium sabaudum var. bladonii BB:"This is a form where the heads are similar to vagum. This form without both glandular and simple is not mentioned directly by Sell or Vincent although Vincent does mention this indirectly in the intermediate plant he covers. MW has found similar plants near Bradford. Sabaudum is more variable than we realised and grades into vagum."

A trip with my cousin Tim, 26th June 2023 Our first stop was Fan Nedd. We parked where the Cambrian Way crosses the road and followed the Wall West. Checking for Hieracium breconicola I was initially excited to see 8 plants in flower. On closer inspection I realized that these were section Vulgata – keying to Hieracium anglorum with slightly discoloured styles, and spidery medium simple hairs on the peduncles We found 3[4] Hieracium breconicola leaf rosettes, one of which with buds that was about 2 weeks away from flowering with numerous simple hairs Below were 4 small (grazed) Hieracium saxorum with spotted leaves We headed off to Nedd Glen – Along the crag at SN8303417257 we found plants section Stelligera with some cordate base leaves – one plant still having a recently closed flower. A Stelligera plant further along with very ‘aqua’ coloured leaves had a stronger toothed leaf but this may have been a different species and had no flower heads remaining. This is a Stelligera with short <11mm bracts, no spots, glabrous upper surface cordate leaves and what looks like stellate hairs underneath the leaf. The plants were a little too late to key At the same site there was a numerous plant maybe from section Oreadea with numerous simple hairs, and hairy attenuate based leaves and discoloured styles. This plant keys closely to Hieracium pusillifolium (bracts are larger) which has been extinct for almost 100 years. For the moment we are calling it Hieracium aff. pusillifolium / deganwyense. A specimen is with Tim Rich and being compared to other specimens. After review this potentially new species is thought to be closer to H deganwyense as it shares the same bulbous based upper leaf hairs. Off to Sgwd Ddu waterfall SN82951797 where there were about 80 Hieracium linguans – 2 plants on the North side of the falls. These had really long (finger like) ligule teeth We had a look for Hieracium apheles at Penderyn but could only find by the pool - only Hieracium argillaceum Looking further downstream on 9th July I found Hieracium apheles and also an unfamiliar (broad leaved) rosette with emerging stem with lots of simple hairs on the bracts and peduncle After a trek up and down Pen-y-fan where we could see Hieracium attenboroughianum in flower on Crybin - eres some shots from last year We ended the day at SN97342038 near the Storey Arms looking at Hieracium cacuminum (also Hieracium argillaceum here) probably about 25 plants. We paid our respects at our grandad's gravestone in Llanfaes, Brecon At the Storey Arms in July there were a few Hieracium substrigosum down by the bridge all with very hairs bracts and small teeth to the narrow elliptical leaves On the crags above SN9703520662 I found an old section Stelligera that was probably Hieracium siluriense but I will have to return another year to confirm and here are some shots of Hieracium leyanum with their stylose flower along the road below I found a strange plant along the Mellte SN9264111606 with too many simple hairs and too few stellate hairs to be argillaceum. Unfortunately all of the leaves had been eaten