Caithness CWS - Nature - Highland Biodiversity - Caithness Draft Plan

A) Higher Plant Species of Note

(Source: Ken Butler)
1. Marine & Coast

1.1. The sea

1.2. 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

1.3. 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

2. River, Loch & Wetland

2.1. 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

2.2. 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

3. Farm & Croft

3.1. 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

3.2. Arable Crops & field margins

Nationally Rare
Nationally Scarce	Purple Ramping-fumitory Fumaria purpurea Northern Knotgrass Polygonum boreale
Locally Notable

4. Forest & Woodland

4.1. Semi-natural Woodland

Nationally Rare
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

4.2. Policy woodlands & Plantations

Nationally Rare
Nationally Scarce
Locally Notable	Common Wintergreen Pyrola minor

5. Moorland, Hill & Bog

5.1. Heather Moor

Nationally Rare
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

5.2. Blanket Bog

Nationally Rare
Nationally Scarce	Small Cranberry Vaccinium microcarpum
Locally Notable

5.3. Hill

Nationally Rare
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

6. Town & Village

6.1. Parks & gardens

6.2. Roadside & Railway verges

Nationally Rare
Nationally Scarce	Twinflower Linnaea borealis
Locally Notable