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ANNEX 4.6: Higher Plant Species
4.6 Higher Plants (Source: Ken Butler)
Marine & Coast
Beaches, Dunes & Machair
Nationally Rare
Holy Grass Hierochloe odorata
Nationally Scarce
Oyster Plant Mertensia maritima
Hair Sedge Carex capillaris
Seaside Centaury Centaurium littorale
Scottish Scurvy-grass Cochlearia scotica
Curved Sedge Carex maritima
Eyebright Euphrasia foulaensis
Baltic Rush Juncus balticus
Locally Notable
Rue-leaved Saxifrage Saxifraga tridactylites
Coastal Cliffs & Heaths
Nationally Rare
Eyebright Euphrasia marshallii
Eyebright Euphrasia rotundifolia
Killarney Fern Trichomanes speciosum
Nationally Scarce
Eyebright Euphrasia ostenfeldii
Small Adder's-tongue Ophioglossum azoricum
Scottish Primrose Primula scotica
Locally Notable
Lesser Spearwort Ranunculus flammula ssp minimus
River, Loch & Wetland
Rivers & Lochs
Nationally Rare
Estuarine Sedge Carex recta
Holy Grass Hierochloe odorata
Nationally Scarce
Shade Horsetail Equisetum pratense
Least Yellow Water-lily Nuphar pumila
Flat-stalked Pondweed Potamogeton friesii
Slender-leaved Pondweed Potamogeton filiformis
Long-stalked Pondweed Potamogeton praelongus
Locally Notable Variegated Horsetail Equisetum variegatum
Shore Horsetail Equisetum x litorale
Wetlands
Nationally Rare
Scottish Smallreed Calamagrostis scotica
Narrow Smallreed Calamagrostis stricta
Nationally Scarce
Bog Hair-grass Deschampsia setacea
Alpine Rush Juncus alpinoarticulatus
Locally Notable
Broad-leaved Cottongrass Eriophorum latifolium
Farm & Croft
Rough Grassland
Nationally Rare
Marsh Saxifrage Saxifraga hirculus
Nationally Scarce
Pyramidal Bugle Ajuga pyramidalis
Spignel Meum athemanticum
Alpine Pearlwort Sagina saginoides
Locally Notable
Juniper Juniperus communis ssp alpinus
Awl-leaved Pearlwort Sagina subulata
Magellan Ragwort Senecio smithii
Northern Marsh Orchid Dactylorhiza purpurella ssp. majaliformis
Arable Crops & field margins
Nationally Rare
Nationally Scarce
Purple Ramping-fumitory Fumaria purpurea
Northern Knotgrass Polygonum boreale
Forest & Woodland
Semi-natural Woodland
Nationally Scarce
Downy Currant Ribes spicatum
Coral-root Orchid Corallorhiza trifida
Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris
Round-leaved Wintergreen Pyrola rotundifolia
Locally Notable
Polypody Polypodium interjectum
Northern Buckler-fern Dryopteris expansa
Policy woodlands & Plantations
Nationally Rare
Locally Notable
Common Wintergreen Pyrola minor
Moorland, Hill & Bog
Heather Moor
Nationally Scarce
Creeping Lady's Tresses Goodyera repens
Dwarf Birch Betula nana
Locally Notable Hybrid Willow Salix repens x herbacea
Common Wintergreen Pyrola minor
Mountain Male Fern Dryopteris oreades
Blanket Bog
Nationally Scarce
Small Cranberry Vaccinium microcarpum
Hill
Nationally Scarce
Alpine Bearberry Arctostaphyllos alpinus
Serrated Wintergreen Orthilia secunda
Alpine Cinquefoil Potentilla crantzii
Intermediate Wintergreen Pyrola media
Alpine Saxifrage Saxifraga nivalis
Lady's-mantle Alchemilla glomerulans
Alpine Mouse-eared Chickweed Cerastium alpinum
Rock Whitlow-grass Draba norvegica
Interrupted Clubmoss Lycopodium annotinum
Locally Notable
Wilson's Filmy-fern Hymenophyllum wilsonii
Hairy Rock-cress Arabis hirsuta
Crowberry Empetrum nigrum ssp hermaphroditum
Bog Bilberry Vaccinium uliginosum
Mountain Sorrel Oxyria digyna
Town & Village
Parks & gardens
Roadside & Railway verges
Nationally Scarce
Twinflower Linnaea borealis
4.7 Fungi (Source: David Savage)
Woodland fungi:
Suillus flavidus
Strobilurus stephanocytis = Pseudohiatula stephanocytis
Skeletocutis amorphus
Wax-caps:
Camarophyllus colemanniana
Camarophyllus pratensis ssp. Pallida
Camarophyllus flavipes
Dermoloma cuneifolium
Hygrocybe calyptriformis (the Pink Waxcap, on the provisional Red Data
List)
Hygrocybe nitrata
Number of Leptonia species present
Distinctive but very rare Leptonia- group species have been found:
Entoloma catalounicum at Dunnet Dunes
Entoloma xanthochroum by Scrabster Lighthouse |