{"id":2586,"date":"2024-11-12T15:06:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T15:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/?page_id=2586"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:27:23","slug":"vc59-flora-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/?page_id=2586","title":{"rendered":"VC59 Flora"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2586\" class=\"elementor elementor-2586\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1dd50a81 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1dd50a81\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-27085dca\" data-id=\"27085dca\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-591d3cff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"591d3cff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6cc43aab00836761cf19eff788fffc3b\"><strong>VC59 Flora<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-260fee4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"260fee4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0f7a2e5\" data-id=\"0f7a2e5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d64d7c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3d64d7c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The N.W.N.U. is playing a leading role in the preparation of this collaborative publication. It will provide a snapshot of the mosses, liverworts, lichens, macro-fungi and algae, as well as of vascular plants, in the area between the Mersey and the Ribble. In doing so, it will provide naturalists, conservationists and planners with an essential means of assessing environmental impact and consequential change in one of the most ecologically diverse parts of Britain. The work is intended, not only for present-day naturalists, but also as a base-line census on which future generations will be able to build. Recording has now finished and records will be published as they become available.<br \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">* Family names for vascular plants are taken from the 4th edition of the <em>New Flora of the British Isles<\/em> by Clive Stace<\/span><br \/>Further details are available from\u00a0<b>Mr David Earl, 25 Outram House, St Mary\u2019s Avenue, Walton le Dale, Preston PR5 4UR \u2013 david.earl@lancashire.gov.uk<br \/><\/b>It will be added to and updated as work is completed<br \/>Clicking on the (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">blue<\/span>) links (right) will open other pages and available records as PDF files in new windows<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6df084c\" data-id=\"6df084c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f729f8b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f729f8b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>LINKS<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Introduction-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Introduction &#8211; <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Earl<\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/publications-chapter-after-merging-04-11-2024_with-developments-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>South Lancashire Botanists and books\u00a0 &#8211; <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jack Smith, <br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0John Edmondson , and Patricia Francis<\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-Herbaria-of-South-Lancashire-latest-version-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Herbaria of South Lancashire &#8211; <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Patricia Francis<\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/?page_id=143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>* Vascular Plants 001 Lycopodiaceae to 080 Malvaceae &#8211; <br \/><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0David Earl<\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/?page_id=3711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>* Vascular Plants 081 Thymelaeaceae to 160\u00a0 Melanthiaceae <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/?page_id=3711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211;<\/a><br \/><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/?page_id=3711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0 \u00a0David Earl<\/a><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/?page_id=3869\"><strong>* Vascular Plants 161 Alstroemeriaceae and above &#8211; <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">David Earl<\/span><\/a><br \/><strong>Bryophytes &#8211; <\/strong>John Lowell<br \/><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tinyplants.uk\/VC5859Bryophytes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Distribution maps<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bryophyte-Flora-Checklist-Hornworts-Liverworts-Feb-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0 \u00a0 Checklist of Hornworts and Liverworts<\/a><br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bryophyte-Flora-Checklist-Mosses-Jan-2025-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Checklist of Mosses<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Final-Fungus-Flora.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fungi &#8211; <\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Final-Fungus-Flora.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norman Bamforth<\/a><\/span><strong><br \/><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/JPG-Species-edited-by-Norman-Reduced-05-11-2924-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lichens &#8211; <\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/JPG-Species-edited-by-Norman-Reduced-05-11-2924-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan &amp; Norman Bamforth, Jonathan Guest<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VC59 Flora The N.W.N.U. is playing a leading role in the preparation of this collaborative publication. It will provide a snapshot of the mosses, liverworts, lichens, macro-fungi and algae, as well as of vascular plants, in the area between the Mersey and the Ribble. 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