Boggy Meadow survey 2016




Wild Flowers

English name

Latin name


August only
Bird's Foot Trefoil, Greater               
Lotus pedunculatus

Black medic
Medicago lupulina

Bramble 
Rubus fruticosus

Broad leaved dock
Rumex obtusifolius

Common Knapweed
Centaurea  nigra

Common sorrel
Rumex acetosa

Common spear thistle
Circium vulgare
x
Common spotted orchid
Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Creeping buttercup
Ranunculus repens

Dandelion
Taraxacum officinale

Field bindweed
Convolvulus arvensis


Fleabane                  
Pulicaria dysenterica
x
Great willowherb
Epilobium hirsutum

Heath (moorland) spotted-orchid
Dactylorhiza maculata

Hemp Agrimony                 
Eupatorium cannabinum 
x
Hogweed
Heracleum sphondylium

Lesser Spearwort                 
Ranunculus flammula

Long leaved plantain
Plantago lanceolata

Marsh Bedstraw                  
Galium palustre

Marsh ragwort

Senecio aquaticus

Marsh thistle
Cirsium palustre

Marsh willowherb
Epilobium palustre
x
Marsh woundwort
Stachys palustris
x
Meadow Buttercup                 
Ranunculus acris

Meadowsweet                  
Filipendula ulmaria

Ragged Robin                
Lychnis flos-cuculi

Red bartsia
Odontites vernus
x
Red clover
Trifolium pratense

Redshank
Persicaria maculosa

Self heal
Prunella vulgaris

Silver weed
Potentilla anserina

Sneezewort                
Achillea ptarmica
x
Water Figwort                  
Scrophularia auriculata
x
White clover
Trifolium repens

Yellow Flag Iris                
Iris pseudoacorus













   Also   
Mosses, Sedges, rushes, horsetails and grasses

Pointed spear-moss
Acrocladium cuspidatum
(Calliergonella cuspidate)
x
False Fox Sedge                 
Carex otrubae

Hairy sedge
Carex hirta

Pendulous Sedge                  
Carex pendula

Compact rush
Juncus conglomerates

Hard Rush                 
Juncus inflexus

Sharp flowered rush
Juncus acutiflorus

Soft Rush                 
Juncus effusus

Toad Rush
Juncus bufonius

Water horsetail
Equisetum fluviatile

Cocks foot
Dactylis glomerata

Crested Dog's tail
Cynosurus cristatus

Marsh foxtail
Alopecurus geniculatus

Perennial rye-grass
Lolium perenne

Rough bluegrass
Poa trivialis

Swamp meadowgrass
Poa palustris
x
Sweet grass
Glyceria declinata

Sweet vernal grass
Anthoxanthum odoratum

Timothy
Phleum pratense sens