Malham Tarn

The many virtues of sweet cicely

Almost the first plant we saw on our “wildflowers of Malham Tarn” walk was sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata).  This is a handsome umbellifer with fern-like leaves.  There are of course many umbellifers, some of which – such as hemlock and hemlock water dropwort – are poisonous, so you need to be sure of your identification. […]

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The Wildflowers of Malham Tarn

The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust is holding a Flowers of the Dales Festival until the end of October, with over 120 events celebrating the wildflowers of the Dales.  We recently went along to a walk exploring the flowers of Malham Tarn, led by the National Trust.   This took in two types of ecosystem: limestone

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