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Use this table to confirm the plant species that are typical of the grassland type on your land parcel. This can support you in carrying out action GRH6: Manage priority habitat species-rich grassland.

Table 1: Species-rich grassland: indicator species

Species name	Grassland type
Betony	Lowland calcareous
Beautiful St Johns-wort	Lowland calcareous
Birds-foot-trefoil	Lowland calcareous
Biting stonecrop	Lowland calcareous
Bloody cranes-bill	Lowland calcareous
Carline thistle	Lowland calcareous
Clustered bellflower	Lowland calcareous
Common agrimony	Lowland calcareous
Common rock-rose	Lowland calcareous
Cowslip	Lowland calcareous
Dropworts	Lowland calcareous
Devils-bit scabious	Lowland calcareous
Eyebright	Lowland calcareous
Fairy flax	Lowland calcareous
Field scabious	Lowland calcareous
Gentians	Lowland calcareous
Greater knapweed	Lowland calcareous
Hairy violet	Lowland calcareous
Harebell	Lowland calcareous
Hawkweed oxtongue	Lowland calcareous
Hoary plantain	Lowland calcareous
Hoary rock-rose	Lowland calcareous
Horseshoe vetch	Lowland calcareous
Kidney vetch	Lowland calcareous
Ladys bedstraw	Lowland calcareous
Marjoram	Lowland calcareous
Milkworts	Lowland calcareous
Mouse-ear hawkweed	Lowland calcareous
Orchids	Lowland calcareous
Ox-eye daisy	Lowland calcareous
Purple milk-vetch	Lowland calcareous
Restharrow	Lowland calcareous
Rough or lesser hawkbit	Lowland calcareous
Sainfoin	Lowland calcareous
Salad burnet	Lowland calcareous
Saw-wort	Lowland calcareous
Small blue-green sedges	Lowland calcareous
Small scabious	Lowland calcareous
Squinancywort	Lowland calcareous
Stemless thistle	Lowland calcareous
Thyme-leaved sandwort	Lowland calcareous
Wild basil	Lowland calcareous
Wild thyme	Lowland calcareous
Yellow-wort	Lowland calcareous
Bell heather	Lowland dry acid
Betony	Lowland dry acid
Bilberry	Lowland dry acid
Birds-foot	Lowland dry acid
Birds-foot-trefoil	Lowland dry acid
Biting stonecrop	Lowland dry acid
Bitter-vetch	Lowland dry acid
Blue fleabane	Lowland dry acid
Bucks-horn plantain	Lowland dry acid
Common centaury	Lowland dry acid
Common rock-rose	Lowland dry acid
Common storks-bill	Lowland dry acid
Devils-bit scabious	Lowland dry acid
Harebell	Lowland dry acid
Heath bedstraw	Lowland dry acid
Heath speedwell	Lowland dry acid
Heather	Lowland dry acid
Ladys bedstraw	Lowland dry acid
Lichens	Lowland dry acid
Lousewort	Lowland dry acid
Maiden pink	Lowland dry acid
Milkworts	Lowland dry acid
Mouse-ear hawkweed	Lowland dry acid
Parsley pierts	Lowland dry acid
Pignut	Lowland dry acid
Purple milk-vetch	Lowland dry acid
Rough or lesser hawkbit	Lowland dry acid
Saw-wort	Lowland dry acid
Sheeps-bit	Lowland dry acid
Sheeps sorrel	Lowland dry acid
Shepherds-cress	Lowland dry acid
Thymes	Lowland dry acid
Tormentil	Lowland dry acid
Violets	Lowland dry acid
Wild strawberry	Lowland dry acid
Wood anemone	Lowland dry acid
Wood sage	Lowland dry acid
Agrimony	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Autumn hawkbit (specific to floodplain meadows)	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Betony	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Birds-foot-trefoil	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Bitter-vetch	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Black knapweed	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Bugle	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Burnet saxifrage	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Common bistort (specific to floodplain meadows)	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Common meadow-rue (specific to floodplain meadows)	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Corky-fruited water-dropwort	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Cowslip	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Devils-bit scabious (specific to floodplain meadows)	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Dropwort	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Dyers greenweed	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Eyebright	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Field scabious	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Globeflower (specific to floodplain meadows)	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Goats-beard	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Great burnet (specific to floodplain meadows)	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Greater birds-foot-trefoil	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Jointed rushes	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
Ladys bedstraw	Lowland meadows (including floodplain meadows)
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