Plants
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Giant Fescue - Festuca gigantea
Sheep's Fescue - Festuca ovina
Found on wetland.
Meadow Fescue - Festuca pratensis
Found on wetland.
Red Fescue - Festuca rubra
Meadowsweet - Filipendula ulmaria
The name is a corruption of the older name mede-sweete, as the plant was used to flavour mead which was made from fermented honey.
The flowers can be seen and the scent noticed during June through to August.
Fissidens bryoides var bryoides
Found in woodland.
Fissidens taxifolius
Fontinalis antipyretica
Wild Strawberry - Fragaria vesca
The flowers of Wild Strawberry are slightly larger than those of Barren Strawberry. They also produce a sweet fruit.
Alder Buckthorn - Frangula alnus
Ash - Fraxinus excelsior
There are old Ash trees around the Reserve. Oak before Ash you are in for a splash, Ash before Oak you are in for a soak - either way you are going to get wet!
Frullania dilatata
Common Ramping-fumitory - Fumaria muralis
Fumitory - Fumaria officinalis
Funaria hygrometrica
Snowdrop - Galanthus nivalis
Common Hemp Nettle / Henbit - Galeopsis tetrahit
Cleavers - Galium aparine
Hedge Bedstraw - Galium mollugo
Woodruff - Galium odoratum
This small white flowered plant is not common on the reserve.
Marsh Bedstraw - Galium palustre
Heath Bedstraw - Galium saxatile
Fen Bedstraw - Galium uliginosum
Lady's Bedstraw - Galium verum
Found on the edge of the path on the middle moor.