Text Box: Significant Wild Plants Text Box: Species details Text Box: Adders Tongue Fern ( Ophioglossum vulgatum) A tiny fern(10-12cm) preferring undisturbed wet meadowland. Although it produces spores, this fern also reproduces by an underground rhizome rather like Bracken and can spread in to large patches. The picture shows this unusual fern with a ripe spore capsule at the top of the stem. Text Box: Marsh Cudweed (Gnaphalium uliginosum) As the name suggests, this tiny plant prefers damp places and is often found on woodland rides. The reason for its inclusion here is it appears to be in decline locally! Text Box: Great Burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) A tall straggly plant of the rose family, with unusual crimson flowers. It has become very scarce in the area and only survives in old and undisturbed wet meadows. It is a good indicator of a healthy notable habitat. Text Box: Pepper Saxifrage (Silaum silaus) A medium sized umbellifer with tiny greenish yellow flowers. Pepper Saxifrage has become scarce in the area through habitat loss. It is a plant of old hay meadows, 97% of these have disappeared from the landscape.