Plants
Complete list of plants recorded Wednesday, 5 December 2018Picture Credit: Liz Milner
KEY
| # | Planted |
| ## | Naturally occuring & Planted |
| G | Grassland indicator |
| AN | Avon Notable species with legal protection/rare/scarce/uncommon/UK BAP (Biodiversity Action Plans) |
| R | removed |
Includes plants found by BNS/Rupert Higgins. The old County of Avon is still used for recording wildlife.
Brackets show the origin of the plant.
- Acer campestre - Field Maple (natural/indigenous) ##
- Acer platanoides - Norway Maple (natural/indigenous)
- Acer pseudoplatanus - Sycamore (natural/indigenous)
- Acer sp. - Purple Maple (Non-native planted)
- Achillea millefolium - Yarrow (natural/indigenous)
- Aesculus hippocastanum - Horse Chestnut (garden escape)
- Agrimonia eupatoria - Agrimony (natural/indigenous) G
- Agrostis capillaris - Common Bent (natural/indigenous)
- Agrostis stolonifera - Creeping Bent (natural/indigenous)
- Alliaria petiolata - Hedge Garlic (natural/indigenous)
- Allium oleraceum - Field Garlic (natural/indigenous) G AN
- Allium vineale - Crow Garlic (natural/indigenous)
- Alnus glutinosa - Common Alder (natural/indigenous) #
- Alopecurus pratensis - Meadow Foxtail (natural/indigenous)
- Anacamptis pyramidalis - Pyramidal Orchid (natural/indigenous) G AN
- Anagallis arvensis - Scarlet Pimpernel (natural/indigenous)
- Anisantha madritensis - Compact Brome (natural/indigenous)
- Anisantha sterilis - Sterile Brome (natural/indigenous)
- Anthoxanthum odoratum - Sweet Vernal Grass (natural/indigenous)
- Anthriscus sylvestris - Cow Parsley (natural/indigenous)
- Aquilega vulgaris - Columbine/Granny’s Bonnet (garden escape)
- Arctium minus - Lesser Burdock (natural/indigenous)
- Arenaria serpyllifolia - Thyme-leaved Sandwort (natural/indigenous)
- Arrhenatherum elatius - False Oat-grass (natural/indigenous)
- Artemisia vulgaris - Mugwort (natural/indigenous)
- Arum maculatum - Wild Arum (natural/indigenous)
- Asplenium scolopendrium - Hart’s tongue Fern (natural/indigenous)
- Avena fatua - Wild Oat (natural/indigenous)
- Bellis perennis - Daisy (natural/indigenous)
- Betula pendula - Silver Birch (natural/indigenous) #
- Betula pendula spp? - whitebarked Birch (Non-native planted)
- Betula pubescens - Downy Birch (natural/indigenous) #
- Brachypodium sylvaticum - Brome Slender/False Wood- (natural/indigenous)
- Bromopsis erecta - Upright Brome (natural/indigenous) G
- Bromus hordaceous - Soft Brome (Lop Grass) (natural/indigenous)
- Bryonia dioica - White Bryony (natural/indigenous)
- Calendula officinalis - Pot Marigold (garden escape)
- Calystegia sepium - Hedge Bindweed (natural/indigenous)
- Calystegia sylvatica - Great Bindweed (natural/indigenous)
- Cardamine hirsuta - Hairy Bitter-cress (natural/indigenous)
- Cardamine pratensis - Cuckoo flower/Lady’s Smock (natural/indigenous)
- Carex hirta - Hairy Sedge (natural/indigenous)
- Carex caryophyllea - Spring Sedge (natural/indigenous)
- Carex divulsa subs. Divulsa - Grey Sedge (natural/indigenous)
- Carex flacca - Glaucous Sedge (natural/indigenous) G
- Carex nigra - Common Sedge (natural/indigenous) mis-identified?
- Carex pendula - Pendulous Sedge (natural/indigenous)
- Carex spicata - Spiked Sedge (natural/indigenous)
- Carlina vulgaris - Carline Thistle (natural/indigenous) G AN
- Carpinus betulis - Hornbeam (natural/indigenous) #
- Castanea sativa - Sweet Chestnut (natural/indigenous)
- Catapodium marinum - Sea Fern-grass (natural/indigenous)
- Catapodium rigidum - Fern-grass/Hard Poa (natural/indigenous) G AN
- Centaurea nemoralis - Brown Knapweed (natural/indigenous)
- Centaurea nigra - Black Knapweed (natural/indigenous) G
- Centaurea scabiosa - Greater Knapweed (natural/indigenous) G
- Centaurium erythraea - Centaury (natural/indigenous) G
- Centranthus ruber - Red Valerian (garden escape)
- Cerastium fontanum - Common Mouse-ear (natural/indigenous)
- Cerastium glomeratum - Sticky Mouse ear (natural/indigenous)
- Chaerophyllum temulum - Rough Chervil (natural/indigenous)
- Chenopodium album - Fat-hen (natural/indigenous)
- Chrysosplenium oppositifolium - Opposite-Leaved Golden Saxifrage (natural/indigenous)
- Cirsium arvense - Creeping Thistle (natural/indigenous)
- Cirsium vulgare - Spear Thistle (natural/indigenous)
- Clematis vitalba - Old man’s-beard (natural/indigenous)
- Cochlearia danica - Danish Scurvy-grass (natural/indigenous) AN
- Cochlearia officinalis - Common Scurvy-grass (natural/indigenous) mis-identified?
- Conopodium majus - Pignut (natural/indigenous)
- Convolvulus arvensis - Field Bindweed (natural/indigenous)
- Conyza canadensis - Canadian Fleabane (natural/indigenous)
- Conyza floribunda - Bilbao’s Fleabane (natural/indigenous)
- Cornus sanguinea - Dogwood (natural/indigenous) ##
- Corylus avellana - Hazel (natural/indigenous) ##
- Cotoneaster horizantalis - Wall /prostrate Cotoneaster (garden escape)
- Cotoneaster salicifolius - Willow-leaved Cotoneaster (garden escape)
- Crataegus monogyna - Hawthorn (natural/indigenous)
- Crepis capillaris - Smooth Hawksbeard (natural/indigenous)
- Crepis vesicaria - Beaked Hawksbeard (natural/indigenous)
- Cyclamen sp. - Cyclamen (garden escape)
- Cynosurus cristatus - Crested Dog’s-tail (natural/indigenous)
- Dactylis glomerata - Cocksfoot (natural/indigenous)
- Dactylorhiza fuchsii - Common Spotted Orchid (natural/indigenous) G
- Dactylorhiza praetermissa - Southern Marsh Orchid (natural/indigenous)
- Dactylorhiza x grandis - Hybrid Orchid (natural/indigenous) G AN
- Daphne laureola - Spurge-laurel (natural/indigenous)
- Daucus carota (subsp. Carota 2018) - Wild Carrot (natural/indigenous) G
- Digitalis purpureum - Foxglove (natural/indigenous) #
- Dipsacus fullonum - Teasel (natural/indigenous) ##
- Dryopteris filix-mas - Male Fern (natural/indigenous)
- Elytrigea repens - Common /Creeping Couch (natural/indigenous)
- Epilobium ciliatum - American - Willowherb (garden escape)
- Epilobium hirsutum - Great/Hairy Willowherb (natural/indigenous)
- Epilobium montanum - Broad-leaved Willowherb (natural/indigenous)
- Epilobium parviflorum - Hoary Willowherb (natural/indigenous)
- Equisetum arvense - Field Horsetail (natural/indigenous)
- Erigeron acer - Blue Fleabane (natural/indigenous) G AN
- Erigeron karvinskianus - Mexican Fleabane (garden escape)
- Erophila verna - Spring Whitlow-grass (natural/indigenous) G
- Euonymus europaeus - Spindle (natural/indigenous) #
- Eupatorium cannabinum - Hemp-agrimony (natural/indigenous)
- Euphorbia helioscopa - Sun Spurge (natural/indigenous)
- Euphorbia amygdaloides subsp. robbiae - Turkish Wood Spurge (garden escape)
- Fagus sylvaticus - Green Beech (natural/indigenous) #
- Fallopia japonica - Japanese Knotweed (garden escape) R
- Festuca arundinacea - Tall Fescue (natural/indigenous)
- Festuca ovina - Sheep’s Fescue (natural/indigenous) G
- Festuca pratensis - Meadow Fescue (natural/indigenous) G
- Festuca rubra - Red Fescue (natural/indigenous)
- Fragaria vesca - Wild Strawberry (natural/indigenous)
- Frangula alnus - Alder Buckthorn (natural/indigenous) #
- Fraxinus excelsior - Ash (natural/indigenous)
- Fumaria officinalis - Common Fumitory (natural/indigenous)
- Galanthus nivalis - Snowdrop (garden escape)
- Galinsoga quadriradiata - Shaggy Soldier (garden escape) 2018 Jean Oliver
- Galium album (prev. ‘mollugo’) - Hedge Bedstraw (natural/indigenous)
- Galium aparine - Cleavers/Goosegrass (natural/indigenous)
- Galium verum - Lady’s Bedstraw (natural/indigenous)
- Geranium dissectum - Cut-leaved Cranesbill (natural/indigenous)
- Geranium lucidum - Shining Cranesbill (natural/indigenous)
- Geranium molle - Dovesfoot Cranesbill (natural/indigenous)
- Geranium pyrenaicum - Hedgerow Cranesbill (natural/indigenous)
- Geranium robertianum - Herb Robert (natural/indigenous)
- Geum urbanum - Wood avens (natural/indigenous)
- Glechoma hederacea - Ground-ivy (natural/indigenous)
- Hedera helix - Ivy (natural/indigenous)
- Helictotrichon pratense - Downy Oat-Grass (natural/indigenous)
- Helictotrichon pubescens - Meadow Oat Grass (natural/indigenous)
- Helminthotheca (prev. Picris e.) echioides - Bristly Oxtongue (natural/indigenous)
- Heracleum sphondylium - Hogweed (natural/indigenous)
- Hieracium sp. - Hawkweed (natural/indigenous)
- Holcus lanatus - Yorkshire Fog (natural/indigenous)
- Holcus mollis - Creeping Sweet-grass (natural/indigenous)
- Hordeum distichon? - Four rowed? Barley [cultivated] (garden escape)
- Hordeum secalinum/murinum - Meadow/Wall Barley (natural/indigenous)
- Hyacinthoides hispanicus - Spanish Bluebell (garden escape)
- Hyacinthoides non-scriptus - English Bluebell (natural/indigenous)
- Hyacinthoides x massartiana - Hybrid Bluebell (natural/indigenous)
- Hypericum androsaemum - Tutsan (natural/indigenous)
- Hypericum perforatum - Perforate St John’s-wort (natural/indigenous)
- Hypochaeris radicata - Common Catsear (natural/indigenous)
- Ilex aquifolium - Holly (natural/indigenous) #
- Inula conyzae - Ploughman’s Spikenard (natural/indigenous) G
- Iris foetidissima - Stinking Iris (natural/indigenous)
- Jasminum nudiflorum - Jasmine (garden escape)
- Juglans regia - Walnut (garden escape)
- Knautia arvensis - Field Scabious (natural/indigenous) G
- Lactuca serriola - Prickly Lettuce (natural/indigenous)
- Lamium album - White Dead-nettle (natural/indigenous)
- Lamium purpureum - Red Dead-nettle (natural/indigenous)
- Lapsana communis - Nipplewort (natural/indigenous)
- Lathyrus latifolius - Broad-leaved Everlasting pea (garden escape)
- Lathyrus pratensis - Meadow Vetchling (natural/indigenous) G
- Leontodon autumnale - Autumnal hawkbit (natural/indigenous)
- Leontodon hispisidus - Rough Hawkbit (natural/indigenous)
- Leontodon saxatile - Lesser Hawkbit (natural/indigenous) G
- Leucanthemum vulgare - Ox-eye Daisy (natural/indigenous) G
- Leycesteria formosa - Himalayan Honeysuckle (garden escape)
- Ligustrum vulgare - Wild Privet (natural/indigenous) #
- Linum catharticum - Purging Flax (natural/indigenous) G
- Lithospermum officinale - Common Gromwell (natural/indigenous) G AN
- Lolium multiflorum - Italian Rye-grass (garden escape)
- Lolium perenne - Perennial Rye-grass (natural/indigenous)
- Lonicera nitida - Bush Honeysuckle (garden escape)
- Lonicera periclymenum - Honeysuckle (natural/indigenous)
- Lonicera sp. - Honeysuckle (garden escape)
- Lotus corniculatus (var. sativus 2018) - Bird’s-foot Trefoil (natural/indigenous) G
- Lotus pedunculatus - Greater bird’s foot Trefoil (natural/indigenous)
- Luzula campestris - Field Wood-rush (natural/indigenous) G
- Luzula multiflora - Heath Wood-rush (natural/indigenous) probably large L. campestris
- Lychnis flos-cuculi - Ragged Robin (natural/indigenous)
- Malus sylvestris - Crab apple (natural/indigenous)
- Malus pumila (prev. ‘domestica’) - Apple (garden escape)
- Malva moschata - Musk Mallow (natural/indigenous)
- Malva sylvestris - Common Mallow (natural/indigenous)
- Matricaria chamomilla - Scented Mayweed (natural/indigenous)
- Medicago arabica - Spotted Medick (natural/indigenous)
- Medicago lupulina - Black Medick (natural/indigenous)
- Melitotus altissimus - Golden/Tall Melilot (natural/indigenous)
- Mercurialis perennis - Dog’s Mercury (natural/indigenous)
- Muscari atlanticum - Grape Hyacinth (Non-native planted)
- Myosotis arvensis - Field Forget-me-not (natural/indigenous)
- Narcissus pseudonarcissus - wild Daffodil (Non-native planted)
- Narcissus sp. - garden Daffodil (Non-native planted)
- Odontites vernus - Red Bartsia (natural/indigenous)
- Ononis repens - Creeping Restharrow (natural/indigenous) G
- Ophrys apifera - Bee Orchid (natural/indigenous) G AN
- Origanum vulgare - Wild Marjoram (natural/indigenous)
- Ornithogalum umbellatum - Star-of-Bethlehem (Non-native planted)
- Orobanche hederae - Ivy Broomrape (natural/indigenous)
- Orobanche minor - Common Broomrape (natural/indigenous) G AN
- Papaver rhoeas - Common Poppy (natural/indigenous)
- Pentaglottis sempervirens - Evergreen alkanet (natural/indigenous)
- Persicaria amphibia - Amphibious Bistort (natural/indigenous)
- Phleum bertolonii - Smaller Cat’s-tail (natural/indigenous)
- Phleum pratense - Timothy [grass] (natural/indigenous)
- Phyllitis scolopendrium - Hart’s-tongue fern (natural/indigenous)
- Pinus sylvestris - Scots Pine (natural/indigenous) #
- Plantago coronopus - Buck’s Horn Plantain (natural/indigenous)
- Plantago lanceolata - Ribwort Plantain (natural/indigenous)
- Plantago major - Greater Plantain (natural/indigenous)
- Poa annua - Annual Meadow-grass (natural/indigenous)
- Poa compressa - Flattened Meadow-grass (natural/indigenous)
- Poa humilis - Spreading Meadow-grass (natural/indigenous)
- Poa pratensis - Smooth Meadow-grass (natural/indigenous)
- Poa trivialis - Rough-stalked Meadow-grass (natural/indigenous)
- Polygonum aviculare - Knotgrass (natural/indigenous)
- Populus nigra sub.’italia’ - Black Poplar (Non-native planted)
- Populus tremula - Aspen (natural/indigenous) #
- Potentilla reptans - Creeping Cinquefoil (natural/indigenous)
- Potentilla sterilis - Barren Strawberry (natural/indigenous)
- Poterium sanguisorba - Salad Burnet (natural/indigenous) Poterium sanguisorba
- Primula veris - Cowslip (natural/indigenous) G
- Primula vulgaris - Primrose (natural/indigenous)
- Primula x polyantha - Hybrid Oxlip (natural/indigenous)
- Prunella vulgaris - Selfheal (natural/indigenous)
- Prunus avium - Wild Cherry (natural/indigenous)
- Prunus domestica - Wild Plum (natural/indigenous)
- Prunus domestica subsp insititia - Bullace (garden escape)
- Prunus sp. - Cherry sp. (natural/indigenous)
- Prunus sp. ? - purple Prunus? (garden escape)
- Prunus spinosa - Blackthorn (natural/indigenous) ##
- Pteridium aquilinum - Bracken (natural/indigenous)
- Pulcaria dysenterica - Common Fleabane (natural/indigenous) G
- Pyrus communis - Pear (Non-native planted)
- Quercus petraea - Sessile/Durmast Oak (natural/indigenous)
- Quercus robur - Pedunculate Oak (natural/indigenous) #
- Ranunculus ficaria - Lesser Celandine (natural/indigenous)
- Ranunculus acris - Meadow Buttercup (natural/indigenous)
- Ranunculus bulbosus - Bulbous Buttercup (natural/indigenous)
- Ranunculus repens - Creeping Buttercup (natural/indigenous)
- Raphanus raphanistrum - Wild Radish (natural/indigenous)
- Rhamnus catharticus - Purging Buckthorn (natural/indigenous) #
- Rhinanthus minor - Yellow [Hay ] Rattle (natural/indigenous) G
- Ribes rubrum - Red Currant (garden escape)
- Rosa arvensis - Field Rose (natural/indigenous) #
- Rosa canina agg. - Dog Rose (natural/indigenous) #
- Rosa rubiginosa - Sweet Briar (natural/indigenous) #
- Rubus caesius - Dewberry (natural/indigenous)
- Rubus fruticosus agg - Bramble (natural/indigenous)
- Rumex acetosa - Sorrel (natural/indigenous)
- Rumex conglomerata - Clustered Dock (natural/indigenous)
- Rumex crispus - Curled Dock (natural/indigenous)
- Rumex obtusifolius - Broad-leaved Dock (natural/indigenous)
- Rumex sanguineus - Wood Dock (natural/indigenous)
- Rumex X pratensis R.Crispus X obtusifolius - Hybrid Dock (natural/indigenous)
- Sagina apetala - Upright Pearlwort (natural/indigenous) AN
- Salix caprea - Goat/Pussy Willow (natural/indigenous) #
- Sambucus nigra - Elder (natural/indigenous) #
- Saxifraga tridactylites - Rue-leaved Saxifrage (natural/indigenous)
- Scilla sp.?? - Scilla (garden escape)
- Scorzoneroides autumnalis - Autumnal Hawkbit (natural/indigenous) prev. Leontodon autumnale
- Scrophularia auriculata - Water Figwort (natural/indigenous)
- Scrophularia nodosa - Common Figwort (natural/indigenous)
- Sedum acre - Biting stonecrop (natural/indigenous)
- Sedum album - White Stonecrop (natural/indigenous)
- Senecio erucifolius - Hoary Ragwort (natural/indigenous) G
- Senecio jacobaea - Common Ragwort (natural/indigenous)
- Senecio squalidus - Oxford Ragwort (natural/indigenous)
- Senecio vulgaris - Groundsel (natural/indigenous)
- Sherardia arvensis - Field Madder (natural/indigenous)
- Silene dioica - Red Campion (natural/indigenous)
- Silene latifolia [alba?] - White Campion (natural/indigenous)
- Silene vulgaris subsp. vulgaris - Bladder Campion (natural/indigenous)
- Sinapis arvensis - Charlock (natural/indigenous)
- Sison amomum - Stone Parsley (natural/indigenous)
- Sisymbrium officinale - Hedge Mustard (natural/indigenous)
- Sonchus asper - Prickly Sow-thistle (natural/indigenous)
- Sonchus oleraceus - Smooth Sow-thistle (natural/indigenous)
- Sorbus anglica - Common/English Whitebeam (natural/indigenous) #
- Sorbus aucuparia - Rowan (natural/indigenous) #
- Sorbus eminens - Wye Valley Whitebeam (natural/indigenous) #
- Sorbus torminalis - Wild Service (natural/indigenous) #
- Stachys sylvatica - Hedge Woundwort (natural/indigenous)
- Stellaria graminea - Lesser Stitchwort (natural/indigenous)
- Stellaria holostea - Greater Stitchwort (natural/indigenous)
- Stellaria media - Common Chickweed (natural/indigenous)
- Symphoricarpos albus (prev.’rivularis’) - Snowberry (garden escape)
- Tamus communis - Black Bryony (natural/indigenous)
- Taraxacum vulgare agg. - Dandelion (natural/indigenous)
- Taxus baccata - Yew (natural/indigenous) ##
- Torilis japonica - Upright Hedge-parsley (natural/indigenous)
- Tragopogon pratense - Goatsbeard (natural/indigenous)
- Tragopogon pratensis - Goat’s-beard subsp.minor (2018) (natural/indigenous)
- Tragopon porrifolius - Salsify (natural/indigenous)
- Trifolium campestre - Hop Trefoil (natural/indigenous)
- Trifolium dubium - Lesser Trefoil (natural/indigenous)
- Trifolium hybridum - Alsike Clover (natural/indigenous)
- Trifolium pratense - Red Clover (natural/indigenous)
- Trifolium repens - White Clover (natural/indigenous)
- Tripleurospermum inodorum - Scentless Mayweed (natural/indigenous)
- Trisetum flavescens - Yellow Oat-grass (natural/indigenous) G
- Triticium aestivum - Bread Wheat (garden escape)
- Tussilaga farfara - Coltsfoot (natural/indigenous)
- Ulex europaeus - Gorse (natural/indigenous) #
- Ulmus procera - English Elm (natural/indigenous)
- Ulmus americana - American - Elm “Princeton” (Non-native planted)
- Urtica dioica - Nettle (natural/indigenous)
- Valerianella locusta - Common Corn Salad (natural/indigenous)
- Veronica arvensis - Wall Speedwell (natural/indigenous)
- Veronica chamaedrys - Germander Speedwell (natural/indigenous)
- Veronica persica - Common Field Speedwell (natural/indigenous)
- Veronica polita - Grey Field Speedwell (natural/indigenous)
- Viburnum lantana - Wayfaring Tree (natural/indigenous) #
- Viburnum opulus - Guelder Rose (natural/indigenous) #
- Vicia cracca - Tufted Vetch (natural/indigenous)
- Vicia hirsuta - Hairy Tare (natural/indigenous)
- Vicia sativa - Common Vetch (natural/indigenous)
- Vicia sepium - Bush Vetch (natural/indigenous)
- Vicia sylvatica - Wood Vetch (natural/indigenous)
- Vicia tetrasperma - Smooth Tare (natural/indigenous) AN
- Vinca major - Periwinkle (garden escape)
- Viola riviana - Common Dog Violet (natural/indigenous)
- Viola odorata - Sweet Violet (natural/indigenous)
- Vulpia bromoides - Squirrel-tail Fescue (natural/indigenous)
Total: 315