I am helping catalogue species in a 5 acre Wood
* ancient woodland indicator
FLORA
Artillery Plant (Yellow Archangel, Yellow Weasel-Snout)*
Blackberry
Bluebell*
Bracken
Bristly Oxtongue
Butchers Broom
Carpet Bugle (Ajuga Bugleweed, Ground Pine)
Cuckoo Flower (Lady’s Smock, Mayflower, Milkmaids)
Dog’s Mercury*
Dog Violet (Early* and Common)
Euphorbia (Wood Spurge)
Ferns (Hard)*
Figwort
Fungi (Amethyst Deceiver)
Herb Robert (Stinking-Bob Geranium, Death-come-quickly, Storksbill, Fox Geranium and Squinter-pip)
Greater Stitchwort (Greater Starwort, Addersmeat)
Honeysuckle
Ivy
Lesser Celendine (Pilewort, Fig Buttercup)
Lords and Ladies (Cuckoo Pint)
Moschatel (Townhall Clock)*
Mosses
Primrose
Reeds (Soft), Round Headed Club Rush
Sanicle (new May 2024)*
Sedge
Slender St John’s Wort*
Solomon’s Seal*
Thistle (Musk)
Trees (Ash, Beech, Birch, Douglas Fir, European Larch, Field Maple, Hazel, Holly, Oak, Pine, Rowan, Sweet Chestnut, Sycamore, Yew)
Wild Garlic (Allium Ursinum, Ramsons, Wild Cowleek, Cowlic, Buckrams, Broad-leaved garlic, Wood garlic, Bear Leek, Eurasian Wild Garlic or Bear’s Garlic)*
Wood Anemone*
Wood Sorrel*
Wood Speedwell
FAUNA
? Polecat/Weasel/Stoat (based on squirrel predation)
Badger
Birds (Black Cap, Buzzard, Chiff Chaff, Great Tit, Jay, Marsh Tit, Pheasant, Reeves Pheasant, Robin, Woodpecker, Wren)
Deer (Roe, Muntjac)
Fox
Insects (Centipede, Hornet, Hoverfly, Woodlice). Butterfly (Brimstone, Cabbage White, Common Blue, Fritillary, Orange Tip, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood)
Rabbits
Squirrel
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