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The Wetlands
Restoration Project

Marsh Area - Plant Species Survey
July 1991

This walking survey of the flora present was conducted in the summer of 1991 following the completion of restoration work in earlier in the year. The area had been cleared of rhododendron in 1990. At this time regeneration was largely confined to the wetter areas.

 

Trees Herbs
Alder Foxglove
Ash Marsh Thistle
Birch, Silver Spear Thistle
Hawthorn Burdock
Holly Stinging Nettle
Oak, English Dead Nettle
Oak, Turkey Yellow Archangel
Rowan Bluebell
Sycamore Tutsan
Willow Creeping Buttercup
Willowherb
Shrubs Yellow Iris
Rhododendron Marsh Bedstraw
Common Speedwell
Mosses Yellow Pimpernel
Attrichum undulatum Wood Sorrel
Liverwort Hairy Bittercress
Mnium hornum Field Bindweed
Thuidium tamariscinum Duckweed
Reeds, Sedges and Rushes Grasses
Rush, Soft Bamboo
Sedge, Pendgler False Broom
Wood Poa
Ferns Wood Sedge
Hard Fern
Lady Fern

 

Species Totals

Trees  

10

Shrubs  

1

Mosses etc.  

4

Reeds, Sedges and Rushes

2

Herbs etc.  

19

Ferns  

2

Grasses  

4

Total number of species  

42


 

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