Map of the Month - March 2024

March 2024’s Map of the Month looks at the distribution of Teesdale Violet in Ingleborough NNR!

NEYEDC has a close working relationship with recorders across North and East Yorkshire. In 2019, a volunteer botanist for Natural England, Howard Beck, undertook a project to understand the distribution of the nationally scarce Teesdale Violet Viola rupestris within Ingleborough National Nature Reserve. Howard’s full survey covered over 1000 hectares of the reserve and, by its completion in 2021, had counted over 39,600 individual plants. NEYEDC mapped the distribution and density of these V. rupestris records across different survey compartments for the project, which were also included in BSBI reports.

You can read more about Howard’s work, and the Teesdale Violet project, in Howard’s ‘The Natural History of Yorkshire in 100 Species’ blog: #10 Teesdale Violet by Howard Beck — neyedc