COUNTY RARE PLANT REGISTER 

Úna Fitzpatrick & Paul Green

County Rare Plant Registers (CRPR) are a Botanical Society of the British Isles initiative that are intended to identify the conservation status of plants at the county level.  In many ways they are like a county Red List of plants and provide valuable information that can be used within conservation at local levels. 

Like a Red List, a CRPR is prepared using standardised guidelines to ensure its validity.  Under the BSBI guidelines seven criteria are used to identify plants within the county that should be placed on the CRPR. The document below provides more details on the process and outlines the BSBI guidelines as they were adapted for Ireland and used to produce a CRPR for County Waterford. 

Documents for download:
Preparing a County Rare Plant Register in Ireland using County Waterford as an example
County Rare Plant Register for Waterford (excel document)

 

 

 Coincidence map showing the 10km square distribution of CRPR species in County Waterford using all available data

 

 Coincidence map showing the 10km square distribution of CRPR species in County Waterford using data from 2000 onwards

 

Coincidence map showing the tetrad distribution of CRPR species in County Waterford using data from 2000 onwards