Plants

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Cocksfoot - Dactylis glomerata


Common Spotted Orchid - Dactylorhiza fuchsii

These beautiful orchids can be seen from mid May through to early August. Over the last three years they have spread their range.


Early Marsh Orchid - Dactylorhiza incarnata

The fourth of our orchids. Only a few flower spikes can be found but they are spreading.


Heath Spotted-orchid - Dactylorhiza maculata


Northern Marsh Orchid - Dactylorhiza purpurella

Northern Marsh Orchids begin to flower towards the end of May.


Heath-grass - Danthonia decumbens


Wild Carrot - Daucus carota

If the flower heads are examined closely the red centre flower can be seen. Not all of the flowers possess this red centre.


Tufted Hair-grass - Deschampsia cespitosa


Wavy Hair-grass - Deschampsia flexuosa


Transparent/Yellowish Fork-moss - Dichodontium pellucidum


Dicranella heteromalla


Dicranella varia


Dicranoweisia cirrata


Crisped Fork-moss - Dicranum bonjeanii


Dicranum scoparium


Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea

Foxgloves grow throughout the reserve but can be seen in large numbers in the woodland clearings.


Black Bryony - Dioscorea communis


Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum

The leaves form a cup around the stem and rain water collects here. Insects visit and often fall in. Bacteria break down the insect's body and the plant benefits from the nutrients.


Ditrichum cylindricum


Kneiff's Hook-moss - Drepanocladus aduncus


Scaly Male Fern - Dryopteris affinis subsp affinis


Borrer's Scaly Male Fern - Dryopteris borrei x felix-mas


Narrow Buckler-fern - Dryopteris carthusiana


Broad Buckler-fern - Dryopteris dilatata


Male-Fern - Dryopteris filix-mas


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