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Marsden Quarry - Dave Mitchell
 
 
Plants in the MAGical Meadows
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The following grasses and flowers are typical of magnesian limestone grassland. Some of them grow in other places too, but are frequently seen together on our MAGical Meadows.

 
Blue Moor-grass - Keith Cunningham
Glaucous sedge - Dave Mitchell
Blue Moor Grass
(Sesleria caerulea)
Quaking Grass
(Briza media)
Glaucous Sedge
(Carex flacca)
     
Bird's-foot-trefoil - Michelle Appleby
Greater Knapweed
(Centaurea scabiosa)
Common Spotted Orchid
(Dactylorhiza fuchsii)
Bird's-foot-trefoil
(Lotus corniculatus)
     
Hoary Plantain
(Plantago media)
Cowslip
(Primula veris)
Salad Burnet
(Sanguisorba minor)
     
Small Scabious
(Scabiosa columbaria)
Common Rock-rose
(Helianthemum nummularium)
Wild Thyme
(Thymus polytrichus)
     
Bee Orchid - Michelle Appleby
Perennial Flax - Matt Hawking
Dark-red Helleborine
(Epipactis atrorubens)
Bee Orchid
(Ophrys apifera)
Perennial Flax
(Linum perenne)