NATURE detectives are being called upon to help discover where wild daffodils grow in one Herefordshire beauty spot.
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust and the Wye Valley AONB Partnership are working together to record habitats in the Woolhope Dome area this season and are asking local people to get involved by submitting their own records.
The new survey will be analysed against data collected 15 years ago as part of the Millennium Map project to monitor habitat changes in the landscape.
Wild daffodils – which have been in decline since the mid-19th century – can be identified as having a pale yellow whorl of six outer petals and darker yellow trumpet, more delicate and smaller than garden varieties and grow in woods, fields and orchards.
The Woolhope Dome is an area of hills to the South-East of Hereford, encompassing Woolhope, Haugh Wood, Broadmoor Common, Wessington Pasture, Common Hill, Nupend Wood and Lea and Paget’s Wood.
To record and submit your wild daffodil spots make a detailed record of the date and location with your name and email address and email it to s.clague@herefordshirewt.co.uk
It can also be posted to Sally Clague, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust, Lower House Farm, Ledbury Road, Tupsley, Hereford, HR1 1UT
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