Navelwort
11th May 2006, Thursday
This species (Umbilicus rupestris), named from the dimples in its fleshy, rounded leaves, is characteristic of our area, where it grows on the sandstone exposures of the old cliff-line and on walls in Winchelsea.
This is an isolated population of an essentially western species, remaining here as a relic of a former climatic era. Does its local range extend as far west as Hastings?