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Floodplain Meadow Flowering Plants

Amphibious bistort
Autumn hawkbit
Bird's-foot trefoil
Bristly oxtongue
Broad-leaved dock
Cat's-ear
Common comfrey
Common mouse-ear
Common sorrel
Creeping buttercup
Creeping cinquefoil
Creeping Jenny
Creeping thistle
Cut-leaved Crane's-bill
Dandelion
Fool's watercress
Goats-beard
Great burnet
Greater plantain
Hedge bindweed
Lady's bedstraw
Marsh horsetail
Marsh woundwort
Meadow buttercup
Meadow vetchling
Meadowsweet
Oxeye daisy
Prickly lettuce
Prickly sow-thistle
Purple-loosestrife
Red clover
Ribwort plantain
Rough hawkbit
Selfheal
Silverweed
Spear thistle
Tufted vetch
Water dock
Water forget-me-not
Water mint
White clover
Wild angelica
Yellow iris
Yellow rattle
Adder's tongue fern
Black medick
Bulbous buttercup
Common knapweed
Common meadow-rue
Common nettle
Cowslip
Curled dock
Daisy
Devil's-bit scabious
Dog rose
Early marsh-orchid
Field horsetail
Great willowherb
Gypsywort
Hemlock water-dropwort
Hoary plantain
Hogweed
Lady's smock
Marsh-bedstraw
Marsh marigold
Pepper saxifrage
Ragged robin
Scented mayweed
Smaller cat's-tail
Sneezewort
Thyme-leaved speedwell
Wild cabbage
Wild onion
Wild teasel
Yellow water-lily

Grasses, rushes and sedges of the Floodplain Meadow

Black bent
Cock's-foot
Creeping bent
Crested dog's-tail
False oat-grass
Knotgrass
Meadow barley
Perennial rye-grass
Quaking-grass
Red fescue
Rough meadow-grass
Smooth meadow-grass
Tall fescue
Timothy
Tufted hair-grass
Yellow oat-grass
Yorkshire-fog
Annual meadow-grass
Common bent
Common couch
Crested hair-grass
Marsh Arrowgrass
Marsh foxtail
Meadow brome
Meadow fescue
Meadow foxtail
Reed canary-grass
Smooth brome
Sweet vernal grass
Upright brome

Rushes and sedges

Branched bur-reed
Common reed
Greater pond-sedge
Hairy sedge
Lesser pond-sedge
Reed sweet-grass
Slender tufted-sedge
Brown sedge
Carnation sedge
Common club-rush
Common sedge
Common spike-rush
Glaucous sedge
Hard rush
Jointed rush

Mosses

Flowering plants of the limb Brook, woodland Oxbow and ORchard

Common feather-moss
Pointed spear-moss
Rough-stalked feather-moss
Yellow starry feather-moss

Grasses, Rushes, Sedges and Mosses of ​OF THE LIMB BROOK, WOODLAND OXBOW AND ORCHARD

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