Summary of the current status of the Montane and sub Montane plants of the Moffat Hills in Dumfriesshire.

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  • Christopher Miles VCR Dumfriesshire

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33928/bib.2025.07.116

Keywords:

relict montane flora, Derek Ratcliffe, species rediscovery, rare plants, plant conservation, Scotland

Abstract

In 1958 Derek Ratcliffe described the relict montane and submontane flora in the Moffat Hills. He gave a fuller account of 63 of the species in an unpublished listing in 1990. Recent survey work has attempted to refind all of these species and determine their full distribution in these hills.

References

McVean, D.N. & Ratcliffe, D.A. 1962. Plant Communities of the Scottish Highlands. Monograph No. 1 of the Nature Conservancy. London: HMSO.

Ratcliffe, D.A. 1959. The Mountain Plants of the Moffat Hills. Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 37:257-271.

Ratcliffe, D.A. (ed.). 1977. A Nature Conservation Review. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ratcliffe, D.A. 1990. Flora of the Moffat Hills Dumfriesshire VC 72. Unpublished.

Ratcliffe, D.A. 2007. Galloway and the Borders. New Naturalist 101. London: Collins.

Scott-Elliot, G.F. 1896. The Flora of Dumfriesshire, Including Part of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Dumfries: J Maxwell & Son.

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2025-08-14

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): British & Irish Botany

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