Today Eileen and I visited Gunton and Foxburrow Wood in Lowestoft to try out John Poland and Eric Clements year old key to plants not in flower. We first tried to key one of the Limes (Tilia)by refering to the twigs and buds. It worked but we became stuck on what the author means by hairless or more or less so. Next I have always wanted to correctly identify a Blue Anemone which has been naturalised in Gunton Wood.
It keyed out vegetatively as Blue anemone (Anemone appenina) and flowers were confirmed in the botanists bible "Stace".
next we entered Foxburrow Wood that has several ancient woodland indicators. here we found Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa) and Wood Sorrel (oxalis acetosella)
I am looking forward to identifying some Salix species this week and see if the new keys are as easy as the authors say.
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