Golf
A mixture of wildflowers you don’t see in agricultural fields in England anymore
Oats and barley - originally planted by crofters
Quadrat (% cover)
Vernacular Yarrow
Wild Angelica Lesser Burdock False Oat-Grass
Common Soft-brome Sand Sedge
Common Knapweed Common Mouse-ear
Smooth Hawk's-beard Crested Dog's-tail An Eyebright Red Fescue
Lady's Bedstraw Hogweed
Yorkshire-fog
Common Bird's-foot-trefoil Red Bartsia
Ribwort Plantain Silverweed
Meadow Buttercup Yellow-rattle
Common Sorrel Curled Dock
Autumn Hawkbit
Common Ragwort Red Clover
Tufted Vetch 36 I PC OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2016 Taxon Achillea millefolium 15
1 2 3 4 5 Total 10 10
35
Angelica sylvestris3 3 Arctium minus
15 Arrhenatherum elatius
Carex arenaria Centaurea nigra
Crepis capillaris
Cynosurus cristatus Euphrasia confusa Festuca rubra Galium verum
Heracleum sphondylium Holcus lanatus
Lotus corniculatus Odontites vernus
subsp. litoralis
Plantago lanceolata Potentilla anserina Ranunculus acris Rhinanthus minor
subsp. lintonii Rumex acetosa Rumex crispus
Scorzoneroides autumnalis 38 8 var. pratensis
Senecio jacobaea Trifolium pratense Vicia cracca
30 15 25 40
15 85 40
10 4 5 5 15 39 48 2 14
10 10
22 4 23
55 5 3 18
25 30 30 5 10 100 22
15 60 50 10 70 50 240
Bromus hordeaceus 11 subsp. hordeaceus
10 510 6
10 21
Cerastium fontanum 33 subsp. holosteoides
11
15 3 3 21 10
3 13
80 80 80 50 80 370 80 10 25 25
33
10 125 25 6
3 5 4 2 10 24 15 6
MAVIS produces a description of the entered species data in terms of each classification. This means MAVIS can express many different sorts of plant community in the same standard language, allowing for comparisons across sites and scales. This survey of the areas immediately off
the fairway, i.e. the rough, undertaken on the 25th of August, provided the information shown in the table left. This structured survey enables us to
compare the data that was collected with the plant communities recorded with the NVC and, through the use of keys within the books and software developed by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, it can be determined that the community that exists at Askernish Golf Course is referred to as: SD8a Festuca rubra-Galium verum fixed dune grassland, typical sub-community. This type of habitat is known as machair, and is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan priority habitat. Agricultural use of the machair habitat
dates back to a time when easily accessible lands with easily worked soils were appreciated much more then than they are today. Small-scale cropping of oats, barley and rye, and later potatoes; seasonal grazing and haymaking; and fertilising with seaweed and the contents of the cattle byre have resulted in the machair vegetation we see today. There is approximately 40,000 hectares (154 square miles) of this type of habitat. There is no machair anywhere else in the world. This interest could be seen as academic.
However, it has significant input into the management process. I wrote an article some time ago regarding the use of monitoring as a management tool. We can see that the data collected can be
used by the course manager. In this instance, knowing what community and the relative proportion of the species present, we can determine its status and, with a little understanding of the ecology of the species present, we can tweak the management to help conserve the important species there and improve the course for golfers, i.e. presented with a particular problem such as the rough being too dense and golfers
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