Recording in Staffordshire
- Staffs. Rare Plant Register 2022. This new version adds many new records and incorporates the name changes of Stace 4th ed.
- Staffordshire Checklist, 2021. This major revision incorporates all records from Atlas 2020 fieldwork and those of more recent months. It follows the approach of Stace 4th ed.
- Staffordshire charophytes (revised & updated 2022).
County Recorders
The Flora of Staffordshire
John Hawksford and Ian Hopkins' 2011 The Flora of Staffordshire is available to buy and download as a PDF eBook from the BSBI website.
Published in 2011, it contains over 400 pages of photographs and distribution maps and is an essential reference for everyone interested in the natural history of Staffordshire, including professional ecologists, land managers, amateur naturalists, botanists and students.
This Flora was the result of a recording project began in 1998 to collect data, on a tetrad basis, to cover the period 1995-2008. Also incorporated was a comparison with Edees’ results from the previous Flora of the vice county, published in 1972, an a summary of significant finds during the period 1973-1994.
Other Resources
Annual updates from the 2011 Flora are included as appendices in the eBook, and are available to download below:
- First update, Feb 2012
- Second update, July 2012
- Third update, January 2013
- Fourth update, November 2013
- Fifth update, October 2015
- Sixth update, February 2018
- Seventh update, April 2018
- Eighth update (February 2019)
- Ninth update, July 2023
- Overlay maps (save the file and print onto acetate).
The North Staffordshire Flora, by W.T. Boydon Ridge (1922) is also available to download (28 MB).