A common plants survey of vascular plants in South Northumberland and Durham, United Kingdom

Study Extent

The idea is to subsample about 3% of the land area of South Northumberland and Durham in 1km × 1km Ordnance Survey squares over three years.

Sampling

The volunteer observers were asked to… 1. Record all the species that they could identify confidently. 2. Include, planted or sown plants where they are an important feature of the landscape, but to note when they are planted. 3. To try to visit the full range of habitats within the grid square. 4. When they had finished surveying the square, they were asked to assign a DAFOR letter to each species you found. The DAFOR scale is D = Dominant; A = Abundant, F = Frequent, O = Occasional, R = Rare.

Quality Control

Observations were digitised and reviewed by John Durkin, John O’Reily and Quentin Groom. Any obvious mistakes where deleted at this point.

Method steps

1. Observations were digitised using Mapmate (http://www.mapmate.co.uk/).

Vascular plants and charophytes

1. Anthophyta
   rank: phylum
2. Coniferophyta
   rank: phylum
3. Pterophyta
   rank: phylum
4. Lycophyta
   rank: phylum
5. Charophyta
   rank: phylum

The Vice Counties of South Northumberland and Durham, in the north-east of England, United Kingdom