Conservation status: C
First record: Henslow,1825
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Ashwell Station, 1.7.1921, JE Litle Diaries, V:274, HTN.
Ashwell Station, railway bank, V.c.29, Cambs. 2312, J.G.Dony, 22.5.1955, CGE.
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12 or 14 plants in field of Black Medick, Hinxton, AS Shrubbs, 2.6.1920, CGE. DHM.
c.70 plants, Grassy bank, (ex hedge) between arable fields, south of West End, Whittlesford, 468.475, A Arbon, 17.9.1991, CGE.
Long established in hedgerow south of West End, Whittlesford, on both sides of two hedges meeting at right angles, 469.475, A Arbon and U3A, 24.8.1992, CGE.
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Road side, near Cambridge, JS Henslow, 16 June 1825, CGE.
Roadside by railway off Brooklands Avenue, H Gilbert Carter, 1932; H Gilbert Carter and SM Walters, 5.1953.
SE corner of Fitzwilliam & Clarendon Rd junction, JL Jarvis, 1975; GMS Easy, 1987.
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Side of Cambridge to Newmarket Rd near where it crosses the Devil's Ditch. A small clump of several plants. 6.6.1946. Hb DEC/316. DE Coombe, Card Index.
Rdside by Devils Ditch on Cambridge–Newmarket Rd. 6.6.1946, DE Coombe Herbarium No. 316.
Newmarket Road verge in angle between Cambridge & London roads and track parallel and Dyke
W race enclosures, 25.5.1952, RW David ann. CTW.Where A11 joins A45 near Newmarket, 618.613, wasteground (v. near to Devils Ditch), PD Sell 54/10, 3.6.1954, CGE.
Still there, RJ Pankhurst, 15.7.1973.
Persisting near Devil's Dyke but mown annually; 2 turves with 'Bunias' moved, JC Faulkner & G Crompton, Jan. 1977; ['Bunias' was Capsella], JC Faulkner & G Crompton, 4.5.1977.
Near Devil's Dyke, by July Course fence, 618.614, temporarily fenced on road side, flowered and seed collected, and 2 branches in seed laid under dead Bromus sterilis near bollard and dyke, G Crompton,12.8.1978.
Seed collected again and scattered, also sent to D Donald, CUBG, G Crompton, 22.8.1978; dry seed collected and posts and string removed, seed scattered, G Crompton, 15.9.1978. [see also G Crompton 's Devil's Ditch Card index].
Near Devil's Dyke, abundant in bud, G Crompton & DE Coombe, 12.5.1987.
Near July course fence, abund. veg. plants on roadside, a few flowering plants on July Course side, 618.614, G Crompton et al, 5.8.1990 & 1992.
Large flowering plant on opposite side of slip road (and reportedly seen last year in planted shelter belt and rough ground between slip road & former A11; both sites where G Crompton & John Faulkner transplanted some plants in1977.) G Crompton et al, 5.8.1990 & 1992.
Still abundant on both sides of July Course fence and a good patch of tall, flowering plants present on opposite of slip-road. G Crompton, CP and PJ Grubb's Grubb-fest, 26.5.2001.
