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…andward lies a band of mobile dune vegetation characterised by marram Ammophila arenaria and red fescue Festuca rubra. Within this community the rare grass, rush leaved fescue Festuca arenaria is usually found. In places the mobile dune vegetation is backed by a more species rich…

Winterton - Horsey Dunes

…e older, grey dunes support a more diverse flora with frequent sand sedge Carex arenaria, sheep’s fescue Festuca ovina, common polypody Polypodium vulgare and narrow buckler fern Dryopteris carthusiana. Three rare grasses are present in abundance, grey hair grass Corynephorus can…

Warkworth Dunes and Saltmarsh

…wide zone of species rich, undulating fixed dunes dominated by marram Ammophila arenaria, red fescue Festuca rubra and sand sedge Carex arenaria. In this zone there is a great variety of slopes and aspects, but because of the underlying shingle, wet dune slacks have not developed…

Cavenham - Icklingham Heaths

…reas of acid grassland. The acid grassland is generally dominated by red fescue Festuca rubra, sheeps fescue Festuca ovina or sand sedge Carex arenaria. Sand sedge areas can be very uniform but elsewhere there are good numbers of associated plant species. These include heath beds…

Pool of Bryher & Popplestone Bank (Bryher)

…ditions. The narrow coastal dune system behind is dominated by marram Ammophila arenaria which is backed by a small area of dune grassland with sand sedge Carex arenaria, red fescue Festuca rubra, buck’s horn plantain Plantago coronopus, common stork’s bill Erodium cicutarium, th…

Humber Estuary

…imosa lapponica, curlew Numenius arquata, redshank Tringa totanus and turnstone Arenaria interpres. In addition, nine species of passage waders regularly occur in nationally important numbers on the Humber Estuary. These are, ringed plover, grey plover, sanderling, dunlin, ruff …

Sands of Forvie and Ythan Estuary

…f blown sand are actively growing and being colonised by marram grass Ammophila arenaria. Semi-fixed and fixed marram communities are also found, along with a lichen-dominated dune community and fixed dune grassland. A rare type of dune heath is exceptionally well-developed. Rich…

Firth of Forth

…with characteristic species lyme-grass Leymus arenarius, marram grass Ammophila arenaria, cowslip Primula veris, lesser meadow-rue Thalictrum minus, bloody crane’s-bill Geranium sanguineum and restharrow Ononis repens. Mineral enriched grasslands are an unusual habitat in East Lo…

Durham Coast

…n exposed heathlands limited areas of maritime grassland, containing red fescue Festuca rubra, sea plantain Plantago maritima and sea thrift Armeria maritima occur. This gives way on more sheltered slopes to extensive calcareous grasslands, support glaucous sedge Carex flacca, wi…

Ynys Feurig

… higher than the others is partly vegetated, mainly with marram grass Ammophila arenaria, red fescue Festuca rubra and thrift Armeria maritima and many of the terns nest here.

Killard

…aritima, common saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima, tall clumps of red fescue Festuca rubra and saltmarsh rush Juncus gerardii, and occasionally sea plantain Plantago maritima, sea rush Juncus maritimus and common couch Elytrigia repens. Small stands of beach-head saltmarsh are…

Penhale Dunes

… majority of the dunes are fixed grey dunes colonised by marram grass Ammophila arenaria, and red fescue Festuca rubra. They support species such as kidney vetch Anthyllis vulneraria, wild carrot Daucus carota, rest-harrow Ononis repens, sand sedge Carex arenaria, and Portland sp…

Bann Estuary

…n the spring. The fore dune or white dune zone is dominated by marram Ammophila arenaria. These dunes have a sparse herb flora typified by cat's-ear Hypochaeris radicata and ragwort Senecio jacobaea. The most extensive vegetation communities are associated with the zone of semi-s…

Weeting Heath

…tly Dicranum scoparium and Lichens Cladonia spp. with frequent sand sedge Carex arenaria, sheep’s fescue Festuca ovina, field wood rush Luzula campestris and Early hair grass Aira praecox. A chalk grassland flora has developed on the dry calcareous sands. The dominant grassesin t…

Newton Links

…ndulating fixed dunes in which the sward although dominated by marram Ammophila arenaria and red fescue Festuca rubra, is characterised by the presence of lesser meadow rue Thalictrum minus, common rest-harrow Ononis repens, germander speedwell Veronica chamaedrys, bulbous butter…

Plains & Great Bay (St. Martin's)

…The dunes behind are dominated by sand couch Elytrigia juncea, marram Ammophila arenaria together with Sea holly Eryngium maritimum and the uncommon sea spurge Euphorbia paralias and Portland spurge Euphorbia portlandica. The species rich dune grassland further inland is particul…

Gwithian to Mexico Towans

…acked by an extensive range of fixed dunes, dominated by marram grass Ammophila arenaria, with species such as red fescue Festuca rubra, kidney vetch Anthyllis vulneraria, wild carrot Daucus carota and sand sedge Carex arenaria. In addition sea spurge Euphorbia paralias and Portl…

Magilligan

…n is more gradual. The yellow dunes are covered by tussocks of marram Ammophila arenaria and small amounts of sand couch Elytrigia juncea, with occasional sea sandwort Honkenya peploides on the strandline of the upper shore. The grey dunes have a more diverse plant community. Alt…

Overstrand Cliffs

…ome clay are dominated by kidney vetch Anthyllis vulneraria and creeping fescue Festuca rubra with a variety of associates including the grasses Yorkshire fog Holcus lanatus and yellow oat grass Trisetum flavescens; the herbs ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata, sand sedge Carex…

Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay

…marsh grass Puccinellia maritima and, where the saltmarsh is grazed, red fescue Festuca rubra. The nationally scarce sea heath Frankenia laevis occurs in parts of the upper saltmarsh. Low mid marsh communities of common saltmarsh grass and sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides, wit…

Climping Beach

…table. Stablilised parts of these dunes are dominated by marram grass Ammophila arenaria. Other plants which are present include dune fescue grass Vulpia fasciculata, red fescue grass Festuca rubra, sand catchfly Silene conica, sand sedge Carex arenaria, viper’s bugloss Echium vu…

Gibraltar Point

…er inland the dunes are more stable and are dominated by marram grass Ammophila arenaria, associated with lyme grass Leymus arenarius, sand sedge Carex arenaria and the sand dune form of red fescue Festuca rubra. Pyramidal orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis is common on the mature lim…

Silloth Dunes and Mawbray Bank

… which is best seen along the Blitterless Bank. Although marram grass Ammophila arenaria is dominant, it is probably less abundant than on many dune systems and on this site is found in association with grasses such as red fescue Festuca rubra and smooth meadow grass Poa pratensi…

White Park Bay

…ransfers. The dunes are fronted by a narrow band of colonising marram Ammophila arenaria and sand couch Elytrigia juncea. More stable fore dunes inland support a complex mosaic of different vegetation communities, some of which are very species-rich. marram Ammophila arenaria rem…

West Stow Heath

…areas of neutral grassland. The acid grasslands are dominated by sheep's fescue Festuca ovina, common bent grass Agrostis capillaris and sand sedge Carex arenaria. Most are rather tall and undergrazed but a range of characteristic plant species is still present, including harebel…

Hadston Links

…re characterised by a short, rabbit grazed turf with an abundance of red fescue Festuca rubra and sweet vernal grass Anthoxanthum odoratum. Sand sedge Carex arenaria and quaking grass Briza media are also common. Autumn gentian Gentianella amarella, yellow rattle Rhinanthus minor…

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