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Find the plant species that are typical of the grassland type on your land parcel. This can support you in carrying out action GRH6: Manage priority habitat species-rich grassland.

Lowland calcareous

• Betony
• Birds-foot-trefoil
• Biting stonecrop
• Bloody cranes-bill
• Carline thistle
• Clustered bellflower
• Common agrimony
• Common rock-rose
• Cowslip
• Dropworts
• Devils-bit scabious
• Eyebright
• Fairy flax
• Field scabious
• Gentians
• Greater knapweed
• Hairy violet
• Harebell
• Hawkweed oxtongue
• Hoary plantain
• Hoary rock-rose
• Horseshoe vetch
• Kidney vetch
• Ladys bedstraw
• Marjoram
• Milkworts
• Mouse-ear hawkweed
• Orchids
• Ox-eye daisy
• Purple milk-vetch
• Restharrow
• Rough or lesser hawkbit
• Sainfoin
• Salad burnet
• Saw-wort
• Small blue-green sedges
• Small scabious
• Squinancywort
• Stemless thistle
• Thyme-leaved sandwort
• Wild basil
• Wild thyme
• Yellow-wort

Lowland dry acid

• Bell heather
• Betony
• Bilberry
• Birds-foot
• Birds-foot-trefoil
• Biting stonecrop
• Bitter-vetch
• Blue fleabane
• Bucks-horn plantain
• Common centaury
• Common rock-rose
• Common storks-bill
• Devils-bit scabious
• Harebell
• Heath bedstraw
• Heath speedwell
• Heather
• Ladys bedstraw
• Lichens
• Lousewort
• Maiden pink
• Milkworts
• Mouse-ear hawkweed
• Parsley pierts
• Pignut
• Purple milk-vetch
• Rough or lesser hawkbit
• Saw-wort
• Sheeps-bit
• Sheeps sorrel
• Shepherds-cress
• Thymes
• Tormentil
• Violets
• Wild strawberry
• Wood anemone
• Wood sage

Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)

Where this is a floodplain meadow you must have at least one priority floodplain meadow indicator species present at frequency occasional, the rest can be made up from the wider list.

• Agrimony
• Autumn hawkbit (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Betony
• Birds-foot-trefoil
• Bitter-vetch
• Black knapweed
• Bugle
• Burnet saxifrage
• Common bistort (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Common meadow-rue (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Corky-fruited water-dropwort
• Cowslip
• Devils-bit scabious (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Dyers greenweed
• Eyebright
• Field scabious
• Globeflower (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Goats-beard
• Great burnet (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Greater birds-foot-trefoil
• Jointed rushes
• Ladys bedstraw
• Ladys-mantles
• Lesser spearwort
• Marsh arrowgrass (local)
• Marsh or fen bedstraw
• Marsh marigold (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Meadow saxifrage
• Marsh speedwell
• Marsh valerian
• Meadow thistle
• Meadow vetchling
• Meadowsweet (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Milkworts
• Narrow-leaved water- dropwort (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Orchids
• Ox-eye daisy
• Pepper-saxifrage (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Pignut
• Ragged robin
• Rough hawkbit
• Salad burnet
• Saw-wort
• Small to medium blue-green sedges (glaucous, common, carnation)
• Snakes-head fritillary (local)
• Sneezewort
• Tormentil
• Tubular water-dropwort (priority floodplain meadow indicator)
• Water avens
• Water mint
• Wood anemone
• Yellow rattle

Purple moor grass and rush pasture

• Bog asphodel
• Bog bean
• Bog-mosses
• Bog pimpernel
• Bugle
• Common valerian
• Cross-leaved heath
• Devils-bit scabious
• Globeflower
• Greater burnet
• Greater birds-foot-trefoil
• Hemp agrimony
• Jointed rushes
• Ivy-leaved bellflower
• Lesser scullcap
• Lesser spearwort
• Lesser water-parsnip
• Lousewort
• Marsh or fen bedstraw
• Marsh cinquefoil
• Marsh hawks-beard
• Marsh marigold
• Marsh pennywort
• Marsh speedwell
• Marsh valerian
• Marsh violet
• Meadow rue
• Meadow thistle
• Meadowsweet
• Orchids
• Purple loosetrife
• Ragged robin
• Rough hawkbit
• Scullcap
• Saw-wort
• Small blue-green sedges (glaucous, common, carnation)
• Sneezewort
• Tormentil
• Water avens
• Water mint
• Whorled caraway
• Wild angelica

Upland hay meadows

• Birds-foot-trefoil
• Black knapweed
• Bugle
• Burnet saxifrage
• Common bistort
• Changing forget-me-not
• Devils-bit scabious
• Globeflower
• Eyebrights
• Great burnet
• Hawkbits
• Ladys-mantles
• Marsh marigold
• Marsh valerian
• Meadow saxifrage
• Meadow vetchling
• Meadowsweet
• Melancholy thistle
• Orchids
• Pignut
• Ragged robin
• Saw-wort
• Small blue-green sedges (glaucous, common, carnation)
• Sneezewort
• Tormentil
• Water avens
• Wood anemone
• Wood cranes-bill
• Yellow rattle