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… there is an abundance of spring sandwort Minuartia verna and alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens species particularly associated with such sites but scarce elsewhere in the country. In moist crevices in dolomite outcrops in Gratton Dale green spleenwort Asplenium viride occur…

Gang Mine

…. The open spoil areas support large populations of the rare alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens – a plant almost wholly confined to mineral spoil in Britain – and spring sandwort Minuartia verna which is the most characteristic and frequently found metallophyte species of th…

Helvellyn & Fairfield

…owgrass Draba incana, alpine saxifrage Saxifraga nivalis and alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens. The Helvellyn range has been heavily sheep grazed for many years and the 'grazing climax' hill vegetation of fescue bent grassland on dry ground with mat grass and heath rush on …

Bonsall Leys

… spoil heaps, where only characteristic metallophytes such as alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens and spring sandwort occur together with populations of species locally adapted to heavy metals such as moonwort Botrychium lunaria and mountain pansy Viola lutea. More extensive a…

Briarwood Banks

…ver support mountain pansy Viola lutea and, in one locality, alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens, indicative of contamination of these deposits by heavy metals derived from the Pennine ore field upstream.

Rose End Meadows

… tolerant metallophyte species; leadwort Minuartia verna and alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens. Wherever conditions are slightly less toxic, over more highly weathered spoil, a grass dominated vegetation is found. Here the small, locally scarce fern moonwort Botrychium luna…

Whitesike Mine and Flinty Fell

…ant community that dominates here is typified by six species, alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens, spring sandwort Minuartia verna, Pyrenean scurvy grass Cochlearia pyrenaica mountain pansy Viola lutea the fern, moonwort Botrychium lunaria and the typically coastal species, th…

Clough Woods

…ed here by spring sandwort or 'leadwort' Minuartia verna and alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens; a particularly vigorous form which is found only in this area. On less toxic soils, the nationally uncommon narrow leaved bitter cress Cardamine impatiens and small teasel Dipsac…

Ox Close

… spring sandwort Minuartia verna, known locally as leadwort, alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens, scurvy grass Cochlearia officinalis and moonwort Botrychium lunaria. All these species are able to tolerate the high levels of lead and zinc in the soil and thus are characterist…

Burnfoot River Shingle and Wydon Nabb

…d support a distinctive community of plants characterised by alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens, spring sandwort Minuartia verna, common scurvy grass Cochlearia officinalis agg., mountain pansy Viola lutea and thrift Armeria maritima. In places the sparsely vegetated shingle…

Hawkswick Wood

…splenium ruta-muraria and green spleenwort Asplenium viride. Alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens occurs on old mine spoil at the western end of the site and there is an area of limestone grassland containing rock rose Helianthemum nummularium, thyme Thymus praecox and purging…

Masson Hill

…onally rare spring sandwort or 'leadwort' Minuartia verna and alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens. There is a large population of fragrant orchid Gymnadenia conopsea on one area of spoil heaps. Substantial areas of ancient woodland have been converted to mature beech Fagus syl…

Haggs Bank

… that typify this metalliferous vegetation at Haggs Bank are alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens, spring sandwort Minuartia verna, both of which are nationally scarce, Pyrenean scurvy grass Cochlearia pyrenaica, mountain pansy Viola lutea and the fern, moonwort Botrychium lun…

Mwyngloddiau a Chreigiau Gwydyr

…ing plants found at some sites include the nationally scarce alpine penny-cress Noccaea caerulescens, and the locally uncommon sea campion Silene uniflora. The abandoned mines are of importance for several species of bat as roosting sites, particularly when hibernating. Several o…

Beinn a' Chuallaich

…ane species is found in and around stony calcareous flushes; alpine penny-cress Noccaea caerulescens is particularly notable -it occurs on a single outcrop of sugar limestone, and is recorded in few other sites in Scotland; and Silene viscaria, a rare sub-montane species of mildl…

Appleby Fells

…n's wort Hypericum montanum, vernal sandwort Minuartia verna, alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens, hoary whitlow grass Draba incana, lesser meadow rue Thalictrum minus and the very scarce Pyrenean scurvy grass Cochlearia pyrenaica. A similar vegetation is also found on the sha…

Beltingham River Shingle

…y sparse vegetation includes spring sandwort Minuartia verna, alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens, mountain pansy Viola lutea, thrift Armeria maritima, common scurvy grass Cochlearia officinalis and sea campion Silene uniflora. Other species include meadow oat grass Avenula pr…

Upper Wharfedale

…ng the nationally scarce spring sandwort Minuartia verna and alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens as well as common scurvy grass Cochlearia officinalis, mountain pansy Viola lutea and moonwort Botrychium lunaria. Unimproved neutral grasslands in both meadows and pasture also o…

Williamston River Shingle

…on the shingles. Of these spring sandwort Minuartia verna and alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens are normally found in limestone grassland in upland areas, commonly associated with mine spoil; mountain pansy Viola lutea is also usually restricted to upland areas, whilst commo…

Pikedaw Calamine Caverns

…cult conditions, comprising spring sandwort Minuartia verna, alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens, moonwort Botrychium lunaria and adder’s tongue Ophioglossum vulgatum. The plants are also found on mineralised limestone outcrops elsewhere in the site. Twinbottom Scar is a lime…

Moorhouse and Cross Fell

…istically interesting having an abundance of spring sandwort, alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens, alpine scurvy grass Cochlearia alpina and autumn gentian. Studies of the invertebrate life of the site have concentrated largely on the Moorhouse National Nature Reserve, where …

Alston Shingle Banks

… felt with plants of thrift, spring sandwort Minuartia verna, alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens and common scurvy grass Cochlearia officinalis, indicative of the metalliferous spoil and wild thyme, lady's bedstraw Galium verum and the rare limestone bedstraw G. sterneri asso…

Lambley River Shingles

… these metalophyte species; spring sandwort Minuartia verna, alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens and thrift Armeria maritima, form a sparce turf over extensive areas of cobbles. Other plants in this turf include common milkwort Polygala vulgaris, eyebright Euphrasia sp.. and…

Via Gellia Woodlands

…ophyte communities thrive here. The distinctive metallophytes alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens and 'leadwort' Minuartia verna occur within a sward dominated by sheep’s fescue Festuca ovina and thyme; together with other calcicoles. The small scarce fern, moonwort Botrychium…

Lovely Seat - Stainton Moor

… essence species poor they host such scarce metallophytes as alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens, moonwort Botrychium lunaria and spring sandwort Minuartia verna. The site also has numerous limestone outcrops and screes. Here sheep's fescue common bent thyme Festuca ovina Agr…

Ninebanks River Shingle

…s uncommon plants such as spring sandwort Minuartia verna and alpine pennycress Noccaea caerulescens which can tolerate levels of cadmium and zinc respectively which are toxic to most plants. Many of the plants which occur are more usually found in mountain areas or on coasts and…

Upper Teesdale

…t a sparse but unusual vegetation including spring sandwort, alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens, moonwort Botrychium lunaria and Pyrenean scurvy grass Cochlearia pyrenaica. Three of these mine sites have been identified as being of special interest for the geological feature…

Wharmley Riverside

…are large populations of spring sandwort Minuartia verna and alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens, both common on mine waste tips in the Pennine ore field, thrift Armeria maritima which is normally found in coastal or upland areas and mountain pansy Viola lutea. Associated spe…

Malham-Arncliffe

…ularly the spoil that remains, support two uncommon species, alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens and spring sandwort Minuartia verna. The extensive areas of limestone pavements are a habitat for several species, usually confined to woodlands, such as dog's mercury Mercurialis…

Close House Riverside

…stituent metals. The unusual community at this site includes alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens, thrift Armeria maritima and mountain pansy Viola lutea with meadow oat grass Avenula pratensis, harebell Campanula rotundifolia, common bird’s foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus and…

Allen Confluence Gravels

…cially when a wider range of invertebrates are investigated. Alpine penny cress Noccaea caerulescens occurs on older river deposits indicating some contamination by heavy metals possibly resulting from mineral mining activity in the river catchment.

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