Botanical Recording near Farthing Corner, Medway, Kent - 14th August 2016
The M2 Farthing Corner services near Gillingham sit within a botanically under recorded OS square. To the South is an area of countryside allowing access to this square via a footpath. I haven't taken many photos as most plants were common, but exploring new areas is always interesting as I never know what I might find. Common Fleabane was present, as it is in many places now. Pulicaria dysenterica This is Lucerne, a Pea Family member. It is often found on road verges and wasteground and is also planted as a fodder crop. The yellow flowered form of this is Alfalfa. Medicago sativa subsp sativa This is another Pea, the Tall Melilot, another common road verge wildflower. It's long spikes of yellow flowers dominated this area, so I suspect they may have been sown as a fodder crop at some time in the past, though the area now looked ike it had been untouched for many years. This is an unusual view in that it is upside down, thanks t