Conservation & Ecology


MEADOW HERBS IN RELATION TO pH AND SOIL MOISTURE (adapted from Peterken, 2013) pH/Moisture Dry 3 2


4 Moist 5 6 Heather Acid 3 4 Bracken Bird’s-foot Trefoil Bitter Vetch


Heather Bedstraw Heath Spotted Orchid


Tormentil Meadow Thistle


Wavy St John’s Wort


Whorled Caraway


Moderately Acid 5


Cat’s-ear Harebell


Betony Bluebell*


Changing Forget- me-not


Common Dog-violet Common Eyebright


Common Mouse- ear


Common Sorrel Mountain Pansy Pignut Trailing Cinquefoil


6


Common Bird’s-foot-trefoil


Common Ragwort Frog Orchid Hop Trefoil Moonwort Wild Thyme Zigzag Clover


Bush Vetch*


Common Chickweed* Common Knapweed Common Milkwort Daisy


Germander Speedwell


Greater Plantain* Hairy Tare* Lesser Hawkbit Meadow Saxifrage Pale Lady’s-mantle Ribwort Plantain Selfheal Spear Thistle*


Thyme-leaved Speedwell White Clover* Wood Crane’s-bill Yarrow Yellow-rattle


Neutral 7


Agrimony Bulbous Buttercup Burnet-saxifrage Common Vetch Cowslip


Green-winged Orchid


Hoary Plantain


Mouse-ear Hawkweed Oxeye Daisy Parsnip


Perforate St John’s- wort


Rough Hawkbit


Smooth Hawk’sbeard Wild Carrot


Moderately basic 8


Field Scabious Greater Knapweed Small Scabious


Black Medick Salad Burnet


Beaked Hawk’s- beard*


Broad-leaved Dock*


Common Twayblade Cow Parsley* Creeping Cinquefoil Dandelion* Early-purple Orchid Fairy Flax


Greater Burnet- saxifrage*


Greater Butterfly- orchid Hogweed* Pepper-saxifrage Red Clover


Chalk Fragrant- orchid


Common Nettle* Creeping Thistle* Curled Dock* Dyer’s Greenweed Tufted Vetch


Adder’s-tongue


Common Comfrey* Common Fleabane Silverweed* Wood Dock*


Bittersweet* Clustered Dock*


Common Meadow- rue


Common Spotted- orchid


Fritillary Great Willowherb* Gypsywort Hedge Bindweed* Marsh Fern Marsh Helleborine Marsh Ragwort


Northern Marsh- orchid


Southern Marsh- orchid


Water Figwort* Water Mint


Tuberous Thistle


Parsley Water- dropwort


* Indicates a species associated with sites of above average fertility. Species marked in bold are the most frequent species to occur in a range of NVC types.


Hoary Willowherb Milk-parsley


Narrow-leaved Water-dropwort Purple-loosetrife


Tubular Water- dropwort* Yellow Loosestrife


Lesser Water- parsnip*


Water Horsetail


Autumn Hawkbit Field Horsetail*


Lesser Butterfly- orchid Lesser Celandine* Meadow Buttercup Meadow Saffron Meadow Vetchling Melancholy Thistle Saw-wort


Smooth Lady’s- mantle


Common Bistort


Corky-fruited Water-dropwort


Creeping Buttercup* Globeflower Great Burnet


Marsh Hawk’s beard Water Avens Water Pepper* Wavy Bitter-cress*


Lesser Stitchwort Wood Anemone


Bugle


Devil’s-bit Scabious Sneezewort


Bog Pimpernell Bog Stitchwort Cuckooflower Marsh Lousewort Marsh Thistle Marsh Willowherb


Short-fruited Willowherb Wood Horsetail


Common Marsh- bedstraw


Creeping Forget- me-not


Lesser Spearwort Marsh Speedwell


Marsh Cinquefoil Lesser Skullcap Bogbean Damp 7 Wet 8 9 Cross-leaved Heath Bog Asphodel


Round-leaved Sundew


Lousewort Marsh Violet 10


Common Valerian


Greater Bird’s-foot-trefoil


Hemlock Water- dropwort* Hemp-agrimony* Marsh Horsetail Marsh Pennywort Marsh Stitchwort Marsh Valerian Meadowsweet Skullcap


Square-stalked St John's-wort Wild Angelica


Early Marsh-orchid Fen Bedstraw Marsh Arrowgrass Marsh-marigold Ragged-Robin


Tufted Forget-me- not*


Yellow Iris*


Amphibious Bistort*


Brooklime*


Forget-me-not (Myosotis arvensis)


Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)


Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea)


Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris) PC FEBRUARY/MARCH 2015


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