What do your plants tell you about your woodland?
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Featured plants by common name
Click on the profiles in the guide below for details of the most common woodland indicator species as well as information on the soils that they are commonly found in.
Bell heather Latin name: Erica Cinerea
Bilberry Latin name: Vaccinium myrtillus
Bluebell Latin name: Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Bracken Latin name: Pteridium aquilinum
Bramble Latin name: Rubus fruiticosus
Cleavers Latin name: Galium aparine
Common cotton grass Latin name: Eriophorum angustifolium
Common cow-wheat Latin name: Melampyrum pratense
Common valerian Latin name: Valeriana officinalis
Common violet Latin name: Viola riviniana
Cowberry Latin name: Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Creeping buttercup Latin name: Ranunculus repens
Dog's Mercury Latin name: Mercurialis perennis
Elder Latin name: Sambucus nigra
Gorse Latin name: Ulex europaeus
Greater Stitchwort Latin name: Stellaria holostea
Ground ivy Latin name: Glechoma hederacea
Heath bedstraw Latin name: Galium saxatile
Hedge Woundwort Latin name: Stachys sylvatica
Herb robert Latin name: Geranium robertianum
Holly Latin name: Ilex aquifolium
Honeysuckle Latin name: Lonicera periclymenum
Purple moor grass Latin name: Molinia caerulea
Raspberry Latin name: Rubus ideaus
Soft Rush Latin name: Juncus effusus
Tormentil Latin name: Potentilla erecta
Wood avens Latin name: Geum urbanum
Wood Sage Latin name: Teucrium scorodonia
Wood sorrel Latin name: Oxalis acetosella
Yorkshire Fog Latin name: Holcus lanatus
