What plants should I look for?
Chalk grassland supports a wide variety of rare and unusual plants and animals, many of which have unique associations with this habitat and cannot thrive, or survive, elsewhere.
Grass species include quaking grass, sheep’s fescue, meadow-oat grass, crested hair grass, tor-grass, and upright brome.
Wildflower species include bird’s-foot trefoil, candytuft, clustered bellflower, common rock-rose, cowslip, dropwort, eyebright, field scabious, gentians, knapweed, hairy violet, harebell, hoary plantain, horseshoe vetch, kidney vetch, lady’s bedstraw, marjoram, milkwort, mouse-ear hawkweed, many types of orchid, ox-eye daisy, rest harrow, hawkbit, salad burnet, small scabious, wild basil, wild thyme, yellow-wort and many more.