Squinancywort

Asperula cynanchica L.

GB Red List England Red List GB Scarcity Norfolk Scarcity
      Scarce
Native, Axiophyte

Squinancywort

Squinancywort is a rhizomatous perennial herb of dry, calcareous grasslands and sand dunes (W. R. Meek in Preston et al, 2002).

In Norfolk, Squinancywort occurs in chalk grassland in the Brecks and in the north-west of the county. It is absent from vc 27.

asperula cynanchica map

Year GR Locality Recorders
1986 TL9286 Brettenham Heath GB, KAB
not mapped
1988 TF8115 Castle Acre GB, KAB
Castle site, on chalk banks at east side of bailey
1992 TL864960 Bodney GB, KAB
In open grassland
1993 TF7304 Beachamwell Fen JEG
Also TF7403
1993 TF753004 Gooderstone Fen JEG
1993 TL963903 Larling NFG
Wet pasture, a few plants on edge of fen on ant heaps
1997 TF7901 Gooderstone Warren SP
2001 TF7415 East Walton, Summer End GB, NFG
2005 TF689400 Ringstead Downs DW, MW
Also in 2004, TF69404016, GB, KAB
2010 TL757884 Weeting Heath RWE, NFG
Also TL757881, TL757882
2012 TF943408 Warham Camp RWE, MPG, NNNS
Also TF942408, TF942409, TF943409, TF944408, TF944409
2013 TL762999 Foulden Common RNC
TL76249998. Also in 2005, TL760999, TL761999, TL76289996, JEG
2013 TL815899 Weeting, Grimes Graves RML, NFG
Also TL816899
2014 TF735164 East Walton Common RNC, RWE, NFG
Also TF731164, TF735163
2014 TL838959 Ickburgh, STANTA RNC, TP, BSBI
Also TF731164, TF735163 and TL841960, ALB, DPL, BSBI