Rare Plant Register for East Gloucestershire (VC33)

The Gloucestershire Naturalist special edition TGN 45, Rare Plant Register for East Gloucestershire (VC 33) is a mini flora with details of the rarest species in the county. Fully illustrated with maps, photographs etc. in full colour with appendices and a comprehensive index.

Its author is Christopher Dixon, BSBI recorder for Vc33, who worked closely with his predecessors Clare and Mark Kitchen and others to survey the part of the county that lies east of the Severn and north of the Thames and Severn and the Stroudwater canals. The result is a 250-page book featuring maps of nearly 600 species, with a short commentary and sometimes a photo. There are many ways that rarity can be measured – including species classified as Nationally Rare (in 8 or fewer hectads) or Nationally Scarce (in 52 or fewer hectads), rare nationally but common, even abundant, in east Gloucestershire(e.g. Crosswort), or rare in east Gloucestershire though nationally common (e.g. Heather). Add up all these categories and you get to the nearly 600 species.

Softback  A5 (ISSN 1746-9147-45)