Rural Payments Agency
August 15
11:01
2024
Use this table to confirm 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.
Table 1: Species-rich grassland: indicator species
Species name | Grassland type |
---|---|
Betony | Lowland calcareous |
Beautiful St Johns-wort | Lowland calcareous |
Birds-foot-trefoil | Lowland calcareous |
Biting stonecrop | Lowland calcareous |
Bloody cranes-bill | Lowland calcareous |
Carline thistle | Lowland calcareous |
Clustered bellflower | Lowland calcareous |
Common agrimony | Lowland calcareous |
Common rock-rose | Lowland calcareous |
Cowslip | Lowland calcareous |
Dropworts | Lowland calcareous |
Devils-bit scabious | Lowland calcareous |
Eyebright | Lowland calcareous |
Fairy flax | Lowland calcareous |
Field scabious | Lowland calcareous |
Gentians | Lowland calcareous |
Greater knapweed | Lowland calcareous |
Hairy violet | Lowland calcareous |
Harebell | Lowland calcareous |
Hawkweed oxtongue | Lowland calcareous |
Hoary plantain | Lowland calcareous |
Hoary rock-rose | Lowland calcareous |
Horseshoe vetch | Lowland calcareous |
Kidney vetch | Lowland calcareous |
Ladys bedstraw | Lowland calcareous |
Marjoram | Lowland calcareous |
Milkworts | Lowland calcareous |
Mouse-ear hawkweed | Lowland calcareous |
Orchids | Lowland calcareous |
Ox-eye daisy | Lowland calcareous |
Purple milk-vetch | Lowland calcareous |
Restharrow | Lowland calcareous |
Rough or lesser hawkbit | Lowland calcareous |
Sainfoin | Lowland calcareous |
Salad burnet | Lowland calcareous |
Saw-wort | Lowland calcareous |
Small blue-green sedges | Lowland calcareous |
Small scabious | Lowland calcareous |
Squinancywort | Lowland calcareous |
Stemless thistle | Lowland calcareous |
Thyme-leaved sandwort | Lowland calcareous |
Wild basil | Lowland calcareous |
Wild thyme | Lowland calcareous |
Yellow-wort | Lowland calcareous |
Bell heather | Lowland dry acid |
Betony | Lowland dry acid |
Bilberry | Lowland dry acid |
Birds-foot | Lowland dry acid |
Birds-foot-trefoil | Lowland dry acid |
Biting stonecrop | Lowland dry acid |
Bitter-vetch | Lowland dry acid |
Blue fleabane | Lowland dry acid |
Bucks-horn plantain | Lowland dry acid |
Common centaury | Lowland dry acid |
Common rock-rose | Lowland dry acid |
Common storks-bill | Lowland dry acid |
Devils-bit scabious | Lowland dry acid |
Harebell | Lowland dry acid |
Heath bedstraw | Lowland dry acid |
Heath speedwell | Lowland dry acid |
Heather | Lowland dry acid |
Ladys bedstraw | Lowland dry acid |
Lichens | Lowland dry acid |
Lousewort | Lowland dry acid |
Maiden pink | Lowland dry acid |
Milkworts | Lowland dry acid |
Mouse-ear hawkweed | Lowland dry acid |
Parsley pierts | Lowland dry acid |
Pignut | Lowland dry acid |
Purple milk-vetch | Lowland dry acid |
Rough or lesser hawkbit | Lowland dry acid |
Saw-wort | Lowland dry acid |
Sheeps-bit | Lowland dry acid |
Sheeps sorrel | Lowland dry acid |
Shepherds-cress | Lowland dry acid |
Thymes | Lowland dry acid |
Tormentil | Lowland dry acid |
Violets | Lowland dry acid |
Wild strawberry | Lowland dry acid |
Wood anemone | Lowland dry acid |
Wood sage | Lowland dry acid |
Agrimony | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Autumn hawkbit (specific to floodplain meadows) | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Betony | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Birds-foot-trefoil | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Bitter-vetch | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Black knapweed | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Bugle | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Burnet saxifrage | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Common bistort (specific to floodplain meadows) | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Common meadow-rue (specific to floodplain meadows) | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Corky-fruited water-dropwort | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Cowslip | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Devils-bit scabious (specific to floodplain meadows) | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Dropwort | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Dyers greenweed | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Eyebright | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Field scabious | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Globeflower (specific to floodplain meadows) | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Goats-beard | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Great burnet (specific to floodplain meadows) | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Greater birds-foot-trefoil | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Jointed rushes | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
Ladys bedstraw | Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows) |
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