Over to Paul:
"We finally persuaded Tim Rich to visit the Outer Hebrides,
mainly to collect Hieracium seed for the Millennium Seed Bank. But of
course he never stands still, so straight off a flight to Stornoway he zoomed
down to Harris and found a new county record in the process - Hieracium
virgulatorum.
A further day saw Tim and Paul yomping over bits of Uig
parish in the sunshine, looking for Hieracium scarpicum (a vc110
endemic named after the island of Scarp). But we started with some gorgeous habitat (see picture on left, with
Tim contemplating a dive down the cliff past the sheet of Arctostaphylos
uva-ursi), and some Hieracium in the H. argenteum group.
Altogether a grand haul of Hieracium records
including several other records during the day".
Many thanks to Paul for this report and for the photos of Tim, also taken by Paul.
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