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Plants List

Trees

Field Maple (Acer campestre)

Silver Birch (Betula Pendula)

Shrubs

Elder (Sambucus nigra)

Ferns

Hard Fern (Blechnum spicant)

Scaly Male Fern (Dryoptreris affinis)

Lady Fern (Athyrium felix femina)

Harts Tongue Fern (Asplenium scoloperidium)

Grasses

Wavy hair grass (Deschampsia flexuosa)

Blue Fescue (Festuca glauca)

Tufted Hair Grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)

Snow Rush (Luzula nivea)

Purple Moor Grass (Molinea caerulea)

Quaking grass (Briza media)

Wildflowers

Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis) – Larval foodplant of the Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth also used as an alternative foodplant by the Marsh Fritillary butterfly. Good for pollinators.

Common toadflax (Linarea vulgaris) - Larval food plant of the Toadflax Pug Moth, good for long tongued pollinators

Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) – Larval food plant of the Knapweed Fritillary Moth, Good for pollinators

Tutsan (Hypericum androsaemum) – Good for pollinators

Spiny Restharrow (Ononis Spinosa) - Larval food plant for the Common Blue Butterfly

Perennials

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) – Good for pollinators especially hoverflies. Produces seeds for birds.

Ox eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) – Good for pollinators

Milky Bellflower (Campanula lactiflora ) – Good for pollinators

Goats Beard (Aruncus dioicus)

Burnet 'Crimson Queen (Sanguisorba officinalis) – Larval foodplant of the Burnet Dot Moth, Good for pollinators

Wildflower Turf

Agrimonia

Clinopodium vulgare

Campanula glomerata

Lotus corniculatus

Ranunculus acris

Silene vulgaris

Silene dioica

Silene latifolia

Daucus carota

Cichorium intybus

Salvia verbenaca

Trifolium pratense

Trifolium repens

Aquilegia

Cantaurea cyanus

Bellis perennis

Foeniculum vulgare

Pilosella aurantiaca

Aquilega vulgaris

Campanula rotundifolia

Scorzeroides autumnalis

Centaurea scabiosa

Malva neglecta

Malva moschata

Origanum vulgare

Viola tricolor

Dianthus deltoides

Papaver rhoeas

Lythrum salicaria

Lychmis flos-cuculi

Scabiosa columbaria

Jasione montana

Rumex acetosa

Dipsacus

Thymus serpyllum

Echium vulgare