The flora of Hawick Burgh

The flora of Hawick Burgh
by Michael Braithwaite
This softback book published by Hawick
Archaeological Society in March 2015 is of 64
pages A5 liberally illustrated in full colour
with photographs and distribution maps.
English names for the wildflowers are shown
alongside the Latin names throughout the
book. Many of the photographs are by Derrick
Moore.
After introductory chapters, the body of the
book comprises detailed descriptions under
habitats of the main features of the town and
their history. These include Whitlaw Wood
SSSI, the banks of the River Teviot and Slitrig
Water, Wilton Lodge Park, two large
cemeteries, species-rich grassland to the
Toothwort Lathraea squamaria D Moore
A speciality of Wilton Lodge Park
immediate south of the town, the old railway
and urban areas. Amazingly, for an inland Scottish town, 632 species were
recorded in 2014, all at 100m scale or finer in an area of 7km2. This has enabled
interesting distribution maps to be generated for those species that were recorded
intensively. 447 species are mentioned in the habitat descriptions but there is no
full species list.
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