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September 2010
The speedwell are a small group of wild flowers, and many are as attractive as their scientific name - all belong the the genus Veronica. The most glamorous of them all is the Spiked Speedwell. This is a rare plant in Britain, being confined to a few sites on limestone grassland on the west coast of Britain, and to the Brecks of Norfolk and Suffolk. In its East Anglian home it is a very rare plant indeed, with perhaps just three native sites left (one each in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire). After the dry spring and early part of the summer I was not optimistic about my chances of photographing Spiked Speedwell but then, following the rains of mid summer, and courtesy of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, I finally got my chance ....
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