1. Devon Special Species Event
Plants – an overview
Hannah Gibbons (DWT & RSPB)

2. Devon Special Species - Plants
18 vascular plants on the ‘short list’
287 vascular plants on the ‘long list’

3. Goldilocks aster (Aster linosyris)
Least Concern, Nationally Rare
Coastal cliff & slope
Berry Head (6 sites in Britain)
Threats: Competition (scrub and rank grass) & trampling

5. Lundy cabbage (Coincya wrightii)
Sch 8, Vulnerable, Nationally Scarce
Coastal cliff & slope
Lundy (endemic)
Between splash zone and cliff top (+300m inland)
Threats: Grazing and competition from rhododendron

6. Strapwort (Corrigiola litoralis)
Sch 8, Critically Endangered, Nationally Rare
Freshwater (lake) – muddy margins
Slapton Ley (only location in UK)
Threats: Lack of grazing, competition and loss of muddy shingle

7. Field eryngo (Eryngium campestre)
Sch 8, Critically Endangered, Nationally Rare
Calcareous soil near sea
South Devon holds most of British population
Threats: Scrub encroachment and trampling

8. White rock-rose (Helianthemum apenninum)
Vulnerable, Nationally Rare
Limestone grassland (coastal)
Somerset & Devon (Torbay) only
Threats: Scrub and changes in rabbits grazing

10. Toadflax-leaved St John’s-wort (Hypericum linariifolium)
Near Threatened, Nationally Rare
S facing thin soils on acid rocks (dry woodlands)
East Cornwall, Caernarvonshire and South Devon (Teign Valley, Dart Valley & Dartmouth)
Threats: Competition with grasses and scrub

12. Wavy St John’s-wort (Hypericum undulatum)
Least Concern, Nationally Scarce
Acid fen meadows and rush pastures
Cornwall, W Wales and Devon (Culm)
Threats: Agricultural improvements of wet grassland

14. Sand crocus (Romulea columnae)
Sch 8, Vulnerable, Nationally Rare
Short, sandy grassland
Devon (Dawlish Warren), Cornwall (one site) and Channel Islands
Threats: Under grazing, trampling

15. Other species…..
Plymouth pear

16. Other species…..
Bastard balm

17. Other species…..
Sea stock

18. Other species…..
Heath lobelia

19. Other species…..
Rock sea-lavender

20. Other species…..
Water germander

21. Vigur’s eyebright
Other species…..

22. Other species…..
Devon whitebeam

23. Round-headed club-rush
Other species…..
Round-headed club-rush

24. Last, but by no means least…..
Triangular club-rush

25. Colour in the Margins Plantlife & RSPB (3 yrs)
Arable plants - Increase abundance and distribution
13 primary species (10 plants & 3 ground beetles)
Over 30 secondary species
Monitoring and farm advice
Re-introductions (allotments & farms)
Farm open days & agricultural colleges
Any volunteers??