Potteric Carr Nature Reserve

Plants

The site includes acidic peat, and limestone areas (the former railway embankments) and these
encourage a diversity of species, including: Wall Rue Asplenium ruta-muraria, Old Man's Beard
Clematis vitalba, Greater Spearwort Ranunculus lingua, Heath Dog Violet Viola canina, Sand Spurrey Spergularia
rubra, Hedgerow Cranesbill Geranium pyrenaicum, Buckthorn Rhamnus catharticus, Bird's Foot Ornithopus perpusillus,
Water Starwort Callitriche stagnalis, Water Violet Hottonia palustris, Small Cudweed Logfia minima, Lesser Water
Plantain Baldellia ranunculoides, Blunt-flowered Rush Juncus subnodulosus, Tussock Sedge
Carex paniculata, Cyperus Sedge C. pseudo cyperus, Pepperwort Lepidium campestre, Wood Small Reed
Calamagrostis epigeios, Purple Small Reed C. canescens, Water Soldier Stratiotes aloides and Fen Pondweed Potomogeton coloratus.

Yellow Bird's-nest Monotropa hypopitys, an achlorophyllous plant which is parasitic on ectomycorrhiza of Tricholoma species,
especially T. cingulatum with Salix, is now thought to be absent.