British NVC Community H6 - Community Composition

Community Composition

The following constant species are found in this community:

  • Brown Bent (Agrostis vinealis)
  • Glaucous Sedge (Carex flacca)
  • Bell Heather (Erica cinerea)
  • Cornish Heath (Erica vagans)
  • Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
  • Common Gorse (Ulex europaeus)
  • Western Gorse (Ulex gallii)
  • Common Dog-violet (Viola riviniana)

A number of rare species are associated with the community: Bristle Bent (Agrostis curtisii), Chives (Allium schoenoprasum), Cornish Heath (Erica vagans), Dwarf Rush (Juncus capitatus), Spring Squill (Scilla verna) and Twin-headed Clover (Trifolium bocconei).

Read more about this topic:  British NVC Community H6

Famous quotes containing the words community and/or composition:

    Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
    Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)

    Every thing in his composition was little; and he had all the weaknesses of a little mind, without any of the virtues, or even the vices, of a great one.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)