Flora & Fauna

 
   

Grid reference

Location

Taxon Name

Common Name

Local Name/notes

 

 

 

 

 

Non-flowering plants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HY27200550

Main pier/coastal cliffs

Asplenium marinum

Sea spleenwort

Probably elsewhere

HY20M

Quoys burn

Athyrium filix-femina

Lady Fern

 

HY2605

Ditches, hill

Blechnum spicant

Hard Fern

 

HY2506

The lash, West Hill

Botrychium lunaria

Moonwort

 

HY25850585

Quoys burn

Dryopteris aemula

Hay-scented Buckler-Fern

 

HY2605

Several sites, Quoys

Dryopteris dilatata

Common Buckler-Fern

 

HY20M

Quoys

Dryopteris filix-mas agg.

Male Fern

 

HY2605

Common, road middle

Equisetum arvense

Field Horsetail

 

HY2605

Wet sites, drains and ditches

Equisetum fluviatile

Water Horsetail

 

HY20M

Common, Marsh

Equisetum palustre

Marsh Horsetail

 

HY20M

Uncommon

Equisetum sylvaticum

Wood Horsetail

Not found recently, Quoys?

HY20M

Quoys burn

Polypodium vulgare

Polypody

On buildings and Elder

 

 

 

 

 

Flowering Plants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HY2605

Common, verges, fields

Achillea millefolium

Yarrow

 

HY20M

Common

Achillea ptarmica

Sneezewort

 

HY20M

Uncommon

Aegopodium podagraria

Goutweed

 

HY20M

Cultivated fields, Sandside Links

Anchusa arvensis

Field Bugloss

 

HY2605

Unimproved grassland, coast

Angelica sylvestris

Wild Angelica

 

HY2605

Heathy areas, West Hill

Antennaria dioica

Mountain Everlasting

 

HY20M

Common,Verges, uncultivated areas

Anthriscus sylvestris

Cow Parsley

 

HY2605

Uncommon, Hill

Anthyllis vulneraria

Kidney Vetch

 

HY2605

Coast, shore,cliff

Armeria maritima

Thrift

 

HY2605

Strandline

Atriplex glabriuscula

Babington's Orache

 

HY2605

Common, weed

Bellis perennis

Daisy

 

HY264058

Sandside bay, upper beach and links

Cakile maritima

Sea Rocket

Recent incomer!

HY20M

Quarry

Callitriche platycarpa

Various-Leaved Water-Starwort

 

HY2605

Wet, damp sites

Callitriche stagnalis sens.lat.

Common Water-Starwort

 

HY2605

Hill, Heath

Calluna vulgaris

Ling

 

HY2605

Ditches, Marsh, common

Caltha palustris

Marsh Marigold

 

HY2605

Weed of cultivation

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Shepherd's-Purse

 

HY2605

Weed of cultivation

Cardamine flexuosa

Wavy Bitter-Cress

 

HY2605

Common in wet,damp areas

Cardamine pratensis

Cuckooflower

 

HY2605

Uncommon

Centaurea nigra

Hardhead

 

HY2605

Common weed

Cerastium fontanum vulgare

Common Mouse-Ear

 

HY2605

Common weed

Cerastium glomeratum

Sticky Mouse-Ear

 

HY2605

Uncommon

Chamerion angustifolium

Fireweed

 

HY20M

Weed of cultivation

Chrysanthemum segetum

Corn Marigold

probably extinct on the island now

HY2605

Common, fields

Cirsium arvense

Creeping Thistle

 

HY2605

Common

Cirsium palustre

Marsh Thistle

 

HY2605

Common

Cirsium vulgare

Spear Thistle

 

HY2605

Garden escape

Claytonia sibirica

Pink Purslane

 

HY2605

Coastal

Cochlearia officinalis sens.str.

Common Scurvygrass

 

HY20M

Schoolhouse

Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora

Montbretia

garden escape

HY20M

Hill, Heath

Empetrum nigrum

Crowberry

 

HY2605

Hill, heath

Empetrum nigrum nigrum

Crowberry

 

HY2605

Uncommon

Epilobium montanum

Broad-Leaved Willowherb

 

HY2605

Common

Epilobium palustre

Marsh Willowherb

 

HY20M

Hill, Heath

Erica cinerea

Bell Heather

 

HY2605

Hill, heath, less common

Erica tetralix

Cross-Leaved Heath

 

HY20M

Heath

Euphrasia micrantha

Eyebright

 

HY2605

Common

Euphrasia officinalis agg.

Eyebright

 

HY2605

Marsh

Filipendula ulmaria

Meadowsweet

 

HY2605

Cultivated fields

Fumaria officinalis

Common Fumitory

 

HY270049

Cultivated fields, Clett, uncommon

Fumaria purpurea

Purple ramping-Fumitory

 

HY20M

Cultivated areas, field margins

Galeopsis tetrahit

Common Hemp-Nettle

 

HY2605

Strandline, common

Galium aparine

Goosegrass

 

HY2605

Marsh

Galium palustre palustre

Common Marsh-Bedstraw

 

HY20M

Heath, Hill

Galium saxatile

Heath Bedstraw

 

HY2605

Verges, unimproved areas

Galium verum

Lady's Bedstraw

 

 

School, Manse Road

Gentianella amarella ssp.septentrionalis

Autumn Gentian

 

HY20M

School, Manse Road

Gentianella campestris

Field Gentian

 

HY2605

Coastal

Glaux maritima

Sea-Milkwort

 

HY2605

Verges, Common

Heracleum sphondylium