Species List


Friends of Holtspur Bank
Local Nature Reserve
Species List.

Ferns (3)
Broad buckler fern
Male fern
Bracken

Conifers (2)
Larch
Yew

Flowering plants (162)
Agrimony
Apple
Ash
Beech
Black bryony
Black knapweed
Black medick
Blackthorn
Bladder campion
Bramble
Bush vetch
Bugle
Bulbous buttercup
Burnet saxifrage
Charlock
Cleavers
Cock's-foot grass
Common centaury
Common fumitory
Common milkwort
Common ragwort
Common spotted-orchid
Common toadflax
Common vetch
Common violet
Coral-wort
Couch grass
Cow parsley
Cowslip
Crab apple
Creeping buttercup
Creeping soft-grass
Creeping thistle
Cypress spurge
Dandelion
Dark mullein
Dog rose
Dog's mercury
Dogwood
Drooping brome
Early-purple orchid
Eggs & bacon
Elder
False oat-grass
Fennel
Field bindweed
Field for-get-me-not
 		Field maple
Field poppy
Field scabious
Garden crocus
Garlic mustard
Germander speedwell
Glaucous sedge
Goat willow
Goat's beard
Golden oat-grass
Goldilocks buttercup
Gorse
Greater knapweed
Great willow-herb
Ground elder
Ground ivy
Guelder rose
Hazel
Hairy violet
Harebell Hawkweed
Hawkweed oxtongue
Hedge bedstraw
Hedge bindweed
Hedge mustard
Hemlock
Herb robert
Hog weed
Holly
Honeysuckle
Hornbeam
Ivy
Kidney vetch
Lady's bedstraw
Large thyme
Lesser burdock
Lesser celandine
Lilly of the valley
Lords & Ladies
Marjoram
Meadow buttercup
Meadow vetchling
Mint
Mugwort
Narcissus
Narrow-leaved meadow-grass
Narrow-lipped helleborine
Nettle
Nipplewort
Norway maple
Oak
Ox-eye daisy
Oxford ragwort
Perennial sow-thistle
Perforate St. John's wort
Prickly sow-thistle
Primrose
Purging buckthorn
 Purging flax
Pyramidal orchid
Quaking grass
Red bartsia
Red clover
Red currant
Ribwort plantain
Rose-bay willow-herb
Rough hawkbit
Rough meadow-grass
Rowan
Salad burnet
Sanicle
Scarlet pimpernel
Selfheal
Shepherd's purse
Silver birch
Slender false brome
Smooth meadow-grass
Snowdrop
Snowdrop, double flowered
Solomon's seal
Spanish bluebell
Spear thistle
Spindle
Stemless thistle
Sycamore
Timothy grass
Traveller's joy
Twayblade
Upright brome
Upright hedge-parsley
Wall barley
Wall lettuce
Wayfaring tree
Whitebeam
White bryony
White campion
White dead-nettle
Wild basil
Wild carrot
Wild cherry
Wild mignonette
Wild parsnip
Wild privet
Wild strawberry
Wood anemone
Wood avens
Wood melic
Wood millet
Woodruff
Wood spurge
Woody nightshade
Yarrow
Yellow archangel
Yellow wort
Fungi (11)
Birch polypore
Dogwood spot
Jew's ear
Exidia thuretiana
Hygrocybe conica
Phelinus ferruginosus
Nectaria cinnabarina
Trametes versicolor
Tremella foliacea
Tremella mesenterica
Xylaria hypoxylon

Lichens (6)
Cladonia coniocraea
Evernia prunastri
Lepraria incana
Lecanora conizoides
Parmelia saxatilis
Parmelia sulcata

Slugs and snails (5)
Dark-lipped banded snail
Garden snail
Plaited door snail
Round-mouthed snail
White-lipped banded snail

Plant Galls
Caused by : Gall mites (10)
Blackthorn nail gall
Gtr. knapweed leaf pock-gall
Hazel big bud gall
Hawthorn leaf-edge curl gall
Marjoram hairy top gall
Pin gall of field maple
Pin gall of Sycamore
Pouch gall of field maple
Pouch gall of wayfaring tree
Salad burnet felt-gall

Caused by :
Jumping plant lice (1)
Buckthorn thick leaf gall

Caused by : Gall wasps (4)
Common spangle gall of oak
Oak oyster gall
Oak apple gall
Robin's pin cushion

 		Caused by : Gall-midges (4)
Dog's tooth gall of dogwood
Leaf nodule gall of nettle
Speedwell leaf-shell gall
Woody hardhead gall

Caused by : Gall fly (1)
Fern leaf curl gall

Butterflies (29)
Brimstone
Brown argus
Clouded yellow
Comma
Common blue
Dark-green fritillary
Dingy skipper
Essex skipper
Large skipper
Large white
Gatekeeper
Green hairstreak
Green-vein white
Holly blue
Marbled white
Meadow brown
Orange tip
Painted lady
Peacock
Purple hairstreak
Small skipper
Small white
Small tortoiseshell
Red admiral
Ringlet
Small blue
mall copper
Small heath
Speckled wood

Moths (1)
6-spot burnet

Crickets & grasshoppers (3)
Common field grasshopper
Speckled bush cricket
Roesel's bush cricket

Bugs (1)
Hawthorn shield bug

 		Beetles (4)
Glow-worm
7-spot ladybird
16-spot ladybird
Longhorn beetle

Birds (22)
Blackbird
Blackcap
Blue tit
Carrion crow
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Cuckoo
Dunnock
Garden warbler
Green woodpecker
Great spotted woodpecker
Great tit
Jay
Kestrel
Long-tailed tit
Magpie
Nut hatch
Robin
Song thrush
Willow warbler
Wood pigeon
Wren

Reptiles (2)
Common lizard
Slow worm

Mammals (4)
Edible dormouse
Grey squirrel
Hazel dormouse
Rabbit


(Total number of species recorded : 276)

Supported by BTCV, Butterfly Conservation, BBOWT and Rural Action.
Copyright 2006 Friends of Holtspur Bank Local Nature Reserve.