User:Nick Moyes/The Flora of Derbyshire


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Reviewing contents for future use. Still needed.Parkywiki (talk) 09:38, 21 February 2017 (UTC) The Flora of Derbyshire is the name given to a series of four related, yet unconnected printed publications known as Floras which describe the vegetative flora of the county of Derbyshire, England. They span 125 years of botanical recording and together form the most accurate representation of the vegetation of this county.

IMAGE OF PAINTERS FLORA The first work entitled "The Flora of Derbyshire" was published n 1889 by William Hunt Painter. It was followed shortly afterwards by a Supplement to The Flora of Derbyshire in ???? Although a number of previous publications had attempted to provide a summary of the botanical diversity of the county, none was a complete work in itself. Painter's volume was the first of four books spanning over a century to be published with similar title.

IMAGE OF LINTONS FLORA In 1903 William Richardson Linton, a local minister and experienced botanist, published A Flora of Derbyshire. It drew upon many records collected and reported in Painter's Flora, but it also discounted a number of other previously accepted records and paved the way for further academic study of plant distrubution in Derbyshire.

IMAGE OF CLAPHAMS FLORA

There was to be no further stand-alone publication on Derbyshire's plants until 1969. In that year Derby Museum published A Flora of Derbyshire, edited A R Clapham, a renowned botanist from Sheffield University. It had taken some 20 years of research to collate the necessary data, helped by numerous Derbyshire botanists. (such as?) Unlike modern county floras, which are produced from computerised records, it contained only handful of distribution maps. Two Supplements to the Flora of Derbyshire were subsequently produced in 197? and 198?

IMAGE OF DCC FLORA OF DERBYSHIRE PAGE In 1996 work started on the collection and computerisation of Derbyshire plant records for a new Flora of Derbyshire. The work was focussed around a partnership between Derby Museum, Derby University and local volunteer recorders. The initial impetus was to collect botanical data to contribute to a national initiative to re-map the distribution of the British flora by the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI). That data was published in book form in 2001, but is also kept up to date with the addition of new records in an online flora frmo a network of BSBI County Plant Recorders.

Whilst the 2015 Flora of Derbyshire was under preparation, an online version was published on the website of Derby City Council. As with most modern UK floras, maps of most or all native species are provided, along with descriptive text.

Specimens collected as voucher specimens for the revision of the Flora of Derbyshire are mostly deposited in the herbarium of Derby Museum and Art Gallery, which also contains a large number of specimens from past Derbyshire botanists, Painter, Linton, Whittaker, Harpur Crewe and Kathleen Hollick.

http://www.derby.gov.uk/flora

a definitive Checklist of Derbyshire Plants was online

Roly Smith Derbyshire Life

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