During June and July we conducted a flora survey including all wild flowers, trees, bushes and plants through-out the whole of Forest Drive Park in order to identify plant species, map habitats, evaluate ecological health and just see what we have in the Park.
Flora Icognita is a free app which uses AI along with a vast user database of over 30k species to help identify plants, trees and grasses. It allows you to save photos to continually add to their database and enhance the ability of AI systems they use. It utilises your mobile phones GPS signal to pin point where each observation was captured which allows the data to be mapped out. There are no ads and no tracking information apart from your observations.
We recorded over 626 plants, bushes and trees; and believe there are still more which may appear as the seasons begin to change – the beauty of the app is you can keep adding and just re-export and update the data.
It allows us to identify if we need to concentrate on certain areas, if we need to add more flowers, plants, specific pollinators for the bees and where we may need to control invasive species. We can also compare data year on year to see what works best in which location.
Unique Species Recorded
Copperleaf, Norway maple, Sycamore, Ground-elder, Red horse-chestnut, Horse-chestnut, Persian onion, Coastal onion, Purple-flower garlic, Chives, Round-headed leek, Ramsons, Black alder, Grey alder, Red alder, Marsh foxtail, Meadow foxtail, Thale cress, Thrift, White asphodel, Common daisy, Rasp african thistle, Betony, Silver birch, Himalayan birch, Meadow bistort, Swedish whitebeam, Hoary bowlesia, Butterfly-bush, Marsh-marigold, Great camas, Shepherd’s purse, Wavy bittercress, Cuckoo flower, European hornbeam, Common mouse-ear, Sticky mouse-ear, Oregon cedar, White goosefoot, Quinoa, Creeping thistle, Spear thistle, Cabbage tree, Large-flowered tickseed, White dogwood, Red-osier dogwood, Giant filbert, Hollyberry cotoneaster, Late cotoneaster, Diels’ cotoneaster, Franchet’s cotoneaster, Tree cotoneaster, Glaucous cotoneaster, Willow-leaved cotoneaster, Himalayan cotoneaster, Paul’s Scarlet, Hawthorn, Cock’s-foot, Dahlia, Shrubby cinquefoil, Alpine dianthus, Maiden pink, Cheddar pink, Common stinging pink, Fuller’s teasel, Wall whitlowgrass, Viper’s bugloss, Fireweed, American willowherb, Great willowherb, Broad-leaved willowherb, Short-fruited willowherb, Square-stalked willowherb, European beech, Garden strawberry, Ash, Fritillary, Hardy fuchsia, Common ramping-fumitory, Common fumitory, Goosegrass, Woolly cranesbill, Meadow crane’s-bill, Queen of Orange Aven, Water avens, Bird’s-eye gilia, Corn marigold, Ground ivy, Algerian ivy, Swedish service-tree, Curry plant, Smooth oxeye, Hogweed, Yorkshire-fog, Creeping soft-grass, Siebold’s plantain lily, Prophet-flower, Mountain bluebell, Garden candytuft, Holly, Yellow iris, Purple iris, Jacaranda, Common ragwort, Winter jasmine, Canada lettuce, Red dead-nettle, Nipplewort, Marguerite daisy, Purple toadflax, Box-leaved honeysuckle, Bird’s-foot trefoil, Siberian crab apple, European crab apple, Oregon crab apple, Toringa crab apple, Pineapple weed, Lemon balm, Spearmint, Changing forget-me-not, Pheasant’s-eye narcissus, Bunch-flowered daffodil, Caucasus catmint, Eastern cat-mint, Oregano, Welsh poppy, Opium poppy, Ivyleaf geranium, Petunia , Aizoon stonecrop, Sweet mock orange, Slender-leaved Mock Orange, Hawkweeds, Ribwort plantain, Common plantain, Hoary plantain, Annual meadow grass, Rough bluegrass, Knotgrass, Balsam poplar, Laurel-leaved poplar, Quaking aspen, Heal-all, Bird cherry, Cherry plum, European plum, Japanese cherry, Swamp white oak, European turkey oak, Meadow buttercup, Smallflower buttercup, Creeping buttercup, Rock buckthorn, Yellow rattle, Staghorn sumac, Black currant, Flowering currant, Dog rose, Alpine rose, Woods’ rose, Armenian blackberry, Raspberry, Common sorrel, Northern dock, Siberian violet-willow, Weeping willow, Goat willow, Halberd willow, Balkan clary, Sage, Rosemary, Elder, Siberian squill, Hen-and-chickens, Heath groundsel, Groundsel, Rose campion, Red campion, Ragged-robin, Prickly sow-thistle, Smooth sow-thistle, Whitebeam, Rowan, Japanese spiraea, Lesser stitchwort, Chickweed, Common lilac, Common tansy, Dandelion, Small-leaved lime, Crimean lime, Large-leaved lime, Shield clover, Fading clover, Dutch clover, Sea mayweed, Field elm, Common nettle, Germander speedwell, Slender speedwell, Common field-speedwell, Marsh speedwell, Thyme-leaved speedwell, Guelder rose, Wild pansy, Weigelia, Nootka cypress.
