Chrysoplenium oppositifolium L. Conservation status: C First record: Gerarde,1597 The golden Saxifrage groweth in the moist and marrish grounds...also in the Moores by Boston and Wisbich in Lincolnshire. Gerard,1597,692,693;1633 & 1636,842. ...It does not grow near Wisech. 1818. W S[krimshire]. (note on spec.from Castle Rising]. WBCH.) 25 Woodbury Cinques, 212.527, J & C Dony, 4.1977; AC Leslie, 5.1977. Woodbury Cinques, 212.527 and 2115.5259 (on S side of wood by spring), large flowering patches, G Crompton, R Payne & T Plumridge, 27.4.1987. Woodbury, CP at one of the sites, K Tucker (& U3A) 11.5.1992; still there, boggy edge of wood, JCA Rathmell, 4.1995. Woodland, by path at top of wood and ride down through wood, C Turner, 12.5.1997. [R]. 45 Small fl. patch on bank of stream in garden of Mr M Payne, 9 Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, (adjoins Bird Sanctuary) 436.586, G Crompton & B Jackson, 11.5.1989. 65 near eastern edge of Ditton Park Wood, 672.568, ab. in fl. in patch c.4 x 10 paces along old drainage ditch in a depression c.20 yds from road, Simon Leatherdale, 4.1995. East edge of Ditton Park Wood c.672.568. abundant, in flower in a patch c.4 x 10 yds along an old drain (going out of the wood), about 20 yds from the road. With Carex pendula abundant, Glech hed, Primula ela, Angelica, all rare, under Salix caprea and Cornus san, Simon Leatherdale with G Crompton & DA Wells, 2.5.1995, CGE. Ditton Park Wood, area very dry and very few plants, S Leatherdale, 4.1997.
