Grass & Fern Species List

This page lists all the Grass and Fern species identified on the site to-date. Hopefully this list will grow over time as other species are discovered or begin to colonise.

Each species is categorised with both its common and scientific name, along with a 'frequency' based on the standard D.A.F.O.R rating. This gives a guide to the incidence of each species throughout the site as either being Dominant, Abundant, Frequent, Occasional or Rare. Please note that these ratings are only relevant to the site, and a species denoted as rare in this list is not necessarily a rarity.

If the Common Name is underlined, this signifies that there is a photograph of that species in our library: click the link to view the relevant photo and click anywhere imgage to close it. Please be patient while the image loads.
To view other vegetation species lists please use the links below to go the relevant page.
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Grasses
Common Name	Scientific Name	Frequency
Sheep's Fescue	Festuca ovina	frequent
Red Fescue	Festuca rubra	abundant
Perennial Ryegrass	Lolium perenne	occasional
Annual Meadow Grass	Poa annua	rare
Smooth Meadow Grass	Poa pratensis	frequent
Cocksfoot	Dactylis glomerata	frequent
Least Soft Brome	Bromus hordeacesus	frequent
Hairy Brome	Bromus ramosus	occasional
Bearded Couch	Elymus caninus	occasional
Common Couch	Elymus repens	frequent
Wall Barley	Hordeum murinum	occasional
False Oat-grass	Arrenatherum elatus	frequent
Tufted Hair-grass	Deschampsia caespitosa	occasional
Wavy Hair-grass	Deschampsia flexuosa	occasional
Sweet Vernal Grass	Anthoxanthum odoratum	occasional
Yorkshire Fog	Holcus lanatus	frequent
Creeping Soft-grass	Holcus Mollis	abundant
Common Bent	Agrostis capillaris	abundant
Timothy	Phleum pratense	rare
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Ferns
Common Name	Scientific Name	Frequency
Bracken	Pteridium aquilinum	abundant
Male Fern	Dryopteris filix-mas	rare
Broad Buckler Fern	Dryopteris dilatata	rare
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Grass & Fern Species List