Plant List by Habitat Type.

Habitat-based Plant List

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Woodland & Woodland Margins

(Deciduous, mixed and semi-natural woodland, rides, edges)

• Anemone nemorosa (Wood Anemone)

• Asplenium adiantum-nigrum (Black Spleenwort)

• Asplenium trichomanes (Maidenhair Spleenwort)

• Asplenium viride (Green Spleenwort)

• Athyrium filix-femina (Lady-fern)

• Blechnum spicant (Hard-fern)

• Dryopteris affinis (Scaly Male-fern)

• Dryopteris carthusiana (Narrow Buckler-fern)

• Dryopteris dilatata (Broad Buckler-fern)

• Dryopteris filix-mas (Male-fern)

• Gymnocarpium dryopteris (Oak Fern)

• Oreopteris limbosperma (Lemon-scented Fern)

• Phegopteris connectilis (Northern Beech Fern)

• Polystichum lonchitis (Holly-fern)

• Mercurialis perennis (Dog’s Mercury)

• Oxalis acetosella (Wood-sorrel)

• Stachys sylvatica (Hedge Woundwort)

• Viola riviniana (Common Dog-violet)

Trees

• Alnus glutinosa (Alder)

• Betula pubescens (Downy Birch)

• Fraxinus excelsior (Ash)

• Prunus avium (Wild Cherry)

• Quercus × rosacea (Hybrid Oak)

• Sorbus aucuparia (Rowan)

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Heathland (Dry & Wet)

(Upland heath, acid soils, moorland)

• Calluna vulgaris (Heather)

• Erica cinerea (Bell Heather)

• Erica tetralix (Cross-leaved Heath)

• Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Bearberry)

• Empetrum nigrum (Crowberry)

• Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry)

• Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Cowberry)

• Genista anglica (Petty Whin)

• Thymus polytrichus (Wild Thyme)

• Polygala serpyllifolia (Heath Milkwort)

• Euphrasia micrantha (Slender Heath Eyebright)

• Euphrasia scottica (Scottish Eyebright)

• Nardus stricta (Mat-grass)

• Danthonia decumbens (Heath-grass)

• Deschampsia flexuosa (Wavy Hair-grass)

• Carex pilulifera (Pill Sedge)

• Juncus squarrosus (Heath Rush)

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Acid Grassland & Upland Pasture

(Open, grazed or semi-natural grassland)

• Agrostis capillaris (Common Bent)

• Agrostis canina (Bent)

• Agrostis vinealis (Brown Bent)

• Anthoxanthum odoratum (Sweet Vernal-grass)

• Briza media (Quaking-grass)

• Cynosurus cristatus (Crested Dog’s-tail)

• Dactylis glomerata (Cock’s-foot)

• Festuca ovina agg. (Sheep’s Fescue)

• Festuca rubra agg. (Red Fescue)

• Helictotrichon pratense (Meadow Oat-grass)

• Holcus lanatus (Yorkshire-fog)

• Leontodon autumnalis (Autumn Hawkbit)

• Hypochaeris radicata (Cat’s-ear)

• Plantago lanceolata (Ribwort Plantain)

• Ranunculus acris (Meadow Buttercup)

• Succisa pratensis (Devil’s-bit Scabious)

• Taraxacum agg. (Dandelion)

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Wet Grassland, Flushes & Marsh

(Base-poor to mildly enriched wetlands)

• Caltha palustris (White Marsh Marigold)

• Filipendula ulmaria (Meadowsweet)

• Geum rivale (Water Avens)

• Parnassia palustris (Grass-of-Parnassus)

• Pedicularis palustris (Marsh Lousewort)

• Pedicularis sylvatica (Lousewort)

• Rhinanthus minor (Yellow-rattle)

• Triglochin palustre (Marsh Arrowgrass)

• Carex nigra (Common Sedge)

• Carex panicea (Carnation Sedge)

• Carex rostrata (Bottle Sedge)

• Eleocharis multicaulis (Many-stalked Spike-rush)

• Eriophorum angustifolium (Common Cottongrass)

• Eriophorum vaginatum (Hare’s-tail Cottongrass)

• Juncus acutiflorus (Sharp-flowered Rush)

• Juncus effusus (Soft-rush)

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Bogs & Mire (Ombrotrophic / Poor Fen)

(Peatland, blanket bog, quaking bog)

• Drosera rotundifolia (Round-leaved Sundew)

• Narthecium ossifragum (Bog Asphodel)

• Pinguicula vulgaris (Common Butterwort)

• Trichophorum cespitosum (Deergrass)

• Eriophorum latifolium (Broad-leaved Cottongrass)

• Carex pauciflora (Few-flowered Sedge)

• Carex pulicaris (Flea Sedge)

• Juncus bulbosus (Bulbous Rush)

• Selaginella selaginoides (Lesser Clubmoss)

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Standing & Slow-flowing Freshwater

(Ponds, loch margins, ditches)

• Callitriche stagnalis sens. lat. (Common Water-starwort)

• Hippuris vulgaris (Mare’s-tail)

• Potamogeton polygonifolius (Bog Pondweed)

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Tall Herb & Ruderal Vegetation

(Roadsides, nutrient-rich soils, disturbance)

• Chamerion angustifolium (Rosebay Willowherb)

• Cirsium arvense (Creeping Thistle)

• Cirsium palustre (Marsh Thistle)

• Cirsium vulgare (Spear Thistle)

• Senecio jacobaea (Common Ragwort)

• Urtica dioica (Common Nettle)

• Tussilago farfara (Colt’s-foot)

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Rock, Scree & Montane Habitats

(Rock outcrops, upland ledges, montane turf)

• Saxifraga aizoides (Yellow Saxifrage)

• Saxifraga oppositifolia (Purple Saxifrage)

• Viola lutea (Mountain Pansy)

• Tofieldia pusilla (Scottish Asphodel)

• Polystichum lonchitis (Holly-fern)

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Plantations & Conifer Woodland

(Planted or semi-natural coniferous forest)

• Larix sp. (Larch)

• Larix × marschlinsii

• Picea sitchensis (Sitka Spruce)

• Pinus contorta (Lodgepole Pine)

• Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine)