Wild plants

The results of a plant Survey in Burgess Park on 24th May 2010 conducted by the Friends of Burgess Park with Roy Vickery of the South London Botanical Institute.

The survey documented plants found by a group of approximately 15 people on a Monday evening in May. The area surveyed was the dry grassland between the canal walk and Neate St.

	Latin name	Common name
1	Acer pseudoplatanus	Sycamore
2	Achillea millefolium	Yarrow
3	Anisantha sterilis	Barren brome grass
4	Anthriscus sylvestris	Cow parsley
5	Arctium lappa	Burdock
6	Artemesia absinthium	Common wormwood
7	Artemesia vulgaris	Mugwort
8	Ballota nigra	Black horehound
9	Bellis perennis	Daisy
10	Brassica nigra	Black mustard
11	Capsella bursa pastoris	Shepherds purse
12	Cirsi um vulgaris	Thistle
13	Conium maculatum	Hemlock
14	Crepis vesicaria	Beaked hawks-beard
15	Dactylis glomerata	Cocksfoot grass
16	Euphorbia helioscopia	Sun spurge
17	Gallium aparine	Cleavers, goosegrass
18	Geranium dissectum	Cut leaved cranesbill
19	Geum urbanum	Wood avens / Herb Bennet
20	Heracleum mantegazzianum	Giant hogweed
21	Hordeum murinum	Wall barley
22	Lactuca seriola	Prickly lettuce
23	Lamium album	White dead nettle
24	Lamium purpureum	Purple dead nettle
25	Leontodon hispidus	Rough hawkbit
26	Leucanthemum  vulgare	Ox eye daisy
27	Linaria vulgaris	Common toadflax
28	Lolium perenne	Perennial ryegrass
29	Lotus corniculatus	Birds foot trefoil
30	Malus sylvestris	Wild apple
31	Malva sylvestris	Common mallow
32	Medicago lupulina	Black medick
33	Potentilla reptans	Creeping cinquefoil
34	Ranunculus bulbosus	Bulbous buttercup
35	Ranunculus repens	Creeping buttercup
36	Rosa arvensis cana	Dog rose
37	Rubus fruticosa	Blackberry
38	Rumex obtusifolius	Broad leafed dock
39	Senecio  vulgaris	Common groundsel
40	Sisymbrium strictissimum	Perennial rocket
41	Stellaria holostea	Greater stichwort
42	Taraxacum officinal agg	Dandelion
43	Tragopogon pratensis	Showy goats beard
44	Trifolium pratense	Red clover
45	Trifolium repens	White clover
46	Urtica dioica	Nettle
47	Verbascum  nigrum	Black mullein
48	Veronica persica	Persian speedwell / large field speedwell
49	Vicia sativa	Common vetch, tare