Choose a habitat to find the corresponding plant communities

This is a list of habitats. The NVC column shows the National Vegetation Classification communities found within that habitat — click it to work towards a species list you can interrogate species by species. The Sites column shows the SSSIs that contain that habitat — click it to see a map with all of those sites marked, which you can then explore further.

Habitat Communities Sites
Lowland fen NVC → 2489 sites →
Fast flowing river and stream NVC → 1978 sites →
Mixed scrub NVC → 1735 sites →
Montane scrub NVC → 1735 sites →
Upland spring flush NVC → 1513 sites →
Blanket bog NVC → 1451 sites →
Valley mire NVC → 1408 sites →
Bracken scrub NVC → 910 sites →
Purple moor grass and rush pasture NVC → 781 sites →
Coppiced woodland NVC → 667 sites →
Carr NVC → 566 sites →
Ancient woodland NVC → 468 sites →
Lowland wet heath NVC → 448 sites →
Upland wet heath NVC → 414 sites →
Upland acid grassland NVC → 386 sites →
Upland calcareous grassland NVC → 382 sites →
Salt marsh NVC → 283 sites →
Limestone pavement NVC → 263 sites →
Wet woodland NVC → 260 sites →
High montane heath and snow bed NVC → 256 sites →
Coastal vegetated shingle NVC → 234 sites →
Sand dune NVC → 219 sites →
Mountain ledge NVC → 212 sites →
Scree NVC → 212 sites →
Wood pasture NVC → 194 sites →
Raised bog NVC → 163 sites →
Hedgerow scrub NVC → 144 sites →
Atlantic oak wood NVC → 139 sites →
Lowland dry heath NVC → 119 sites →
Arable NVC → 116 sites →
Lowland meadow and pasture NVC → 106 sites →
Hard cliff and cliff slope NVC → 100 sites →
Coastal floodplain grazing marsh NVC → 84 sites →
Maritime cliff NVC → 81 sites →
Reedbed NVC → 81 sites →
Lowland heath NVC → 70 sites →
Altantic hazel wood NVC → 69 sites →
Brownfield NVC → 69 sites →
Mesotrophic grassland NVC → 60 sites →
Upland birch wood NVC → 59 sites →
Montane dwarf shrub heath NVC → 52 sites →
Beech wood NVC → 50 sites →
Machair sand dune NVC → 47 sites →
Traditional orchard NVC → 43 sites →
Upland mixed ash wood NVC → 32 sites →
Chalk river and stream NVC → 31 sites →
Dune slack NVC → 31 sites →
Northern hay meadow NVC → 31 sites →
Pond ditch and canal NVC → 27 sites →
Lowland calcareous grassland NVC → 26 sites →
Caledonian forest NVC → 25 sites →
Lowland dry acid grassland NVC → 25 sites →
Calaminarian grassland NVC → 23 sites →
Nutrient rich eutrophic lake NVC → 23 sites →
Upland dry heath NVC → 22 sites →
Lowland dry oak and birch wood NVC → 21 sites →
Marginal and inundation NVC → 18 sites →
Saline lagoon NVC → 18 sites →
Yew wood NVC → 18 sites →
Rocky slope NVC → 12 sites →
Sluggish river and stream NVC → 11 sites →
Lizard peninsula NVC → 9 sites →
Lowland mixed oak and ash wood NVC → 6 sites →
Upland rush pasture NVC → 5 sites →
Alpine and subalpine calcareous grassland NVC → 1 site →
Peat stained (dystrophic) water NVC → 1 site →
Crevice scree and spoil NVC →
Damp fertile disturbed NVC →
Disturbed nutrient rich NVC →
Gateways and tracks NVC →
Moist damp verges and banks NVC →
Nutrient rich around buildings NVC →
Only East Anglia NVC →
Open habitat arable weed fertile loam and clay NVC →
Open habitat arable weed less fertile acid NVC →
Open habitat arable weed light lime rich NVC →
Turlough and fluctuation mere NVC →
Upland acid rush pasture NVC →
Upland lake loch and tarn NVC →

Britain's Habitats. A guide to the wildlife habitats of Britain and Ireland. Lake, Liley, Still and Swash. WildGuides 2015.