Important
Plants Worth Preserving at Tophill
Due to Rarity or Other Factors
Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Location(s) |
Reason |
Water Violet |
Hottonia palustris |
Pond near centre,
Ditch behind car park |
Rarity |
Common Club Rush |
Schoenoplectus lacustris |
East Pond, facing viewing point |
Historic intrest |
Greater Spearwort |
Ranunculus lingua |
Back of East Pond,
Behind South Marsh,
East Ditch, south end |
Rarity |
Wavy Bittercress |
Cardamine flexuosa |
Ditch N.E. of 'O' Reservoir |
Not recorded for years |
Hybrid St. John`s Wort |
Hypericum x desetangsii |
N.E. side of 'O' Res., near ditch
at ebtrance to SME |
Unusual plant |
Bee Orchid |
Aphrys apifera |
N.E. side of 'O' Res Bank |
Not recorded for years |
Nodding Burr-Marigold |
Bidens cernua |
South Marsh East |
Rarity |
Lesser Water Plantain |
Baldellia ranunculoides |
Newt Pond & Watton Nature Reserve |
Rarity |
Wild Rose |
Rosa Caesia
(Note: NOT Rosa canina) |
Edge of wood near east end of 'O' Res. |
Unusual rose |
There are also many common wild
plants, which are food for the birds (especially the seeds), food for
butterflies, dragon and damsel flies, and other insects, which are in
turn food for the birds and mammals.
Alan Marshall |
