| Habitat
type |
Habitat
definition and notes |
| Fields |
Any cultivated field in which a crop is or has recently been grown.
Crops include cereals such as wheat, barley, oats or rye (specify which if you can) and other
crops such as maize, rape, turnips, peas, beans, linseed, sugar and fodder beet and potatoes.
Set-aside fields are those that have been left fallow (uncropped) for one or more years after a
crop. They are often weedy and untidy in appearance. |
| Gardens and
allotments |
Record poppies
in this category only if you know that they have not
been sown deliberately (see next category below if they
have). Any well-drained, non-acidic disturbed garden
or allotment soil can support poppies. |
| Wildflower meadows
& gardens |
These are areas
specifically sown with wildflower seed mixtures, which
often include poppies, to produce a colourful display
of flowers. They may be in parks and gardens, urban
areas, village greens and wildlife reserves. |
| Roadsides |
Poppies often
grow on roadsides where the soil has been disturbed.
Sites can include collapsed banks and disturbed verges,
but are most frequent where roadworks (widening, straightening
or new road construction) have recently led to large
scale soil movement. |
| Waste ground
|
Any land that
had a former use but is now abandoned. Old industrial
sites and unused urban sites can be home to poppies.
|
| Rubbish tips |
Municipal and
local rubbish tips, soil dumping sites, fly-tipping
sites. Take great care at such sites and do not approach
them without prior permission. |
| Quarries &
construction sites |
Any quarry (especially
limestone or chalk quarries) or area where construction
is taking place. Again, take great care at such sites
and do not approach them without prior permission. |
| Sand dunes,
shingle, sea cliffs |
Being lime-rich
and frequently disturbed, poppies are not infrequent
on and around the sand dunes and shingle, and can also
occur on crumbling sea cliffs. |
| Other |
Poppies can occur
where ever soil is disturbed. Other sites include rabbit
burrows in grassland, old mole hills and ant hills. |
