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LIST OF PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES RECORDED IN THE LINEAR PARK

The main list was compiled during the survey for the management plan in 2001.
Additional species that have been recorded between then and January 2004 are shown in orange.
Species added as a result of observations from October 2004 through to summer 2005 are shown in green

TREES AND SHRUBS

English Name
Ash
Ash-leafed maple
Beech
Blackthorn
Bramble
Buddleia
Burnet rose
Cherry cultivars
Dog rose
Dogwood
Elder
Field maple
Guelder rose
Hawthorn
Hazel
Holly
Horse chestnut
Hybrid hawthorn
Hybrid plum
Japanese rose
Pedunculate oak
Purging buckthorn
Rowan
Snowberry
Sycamore
Whitebeam species
Wild plum
Wild privet
Wych elm

Scientific Name
Fraxinus excelsior
Acer negundo
Fagus sylvatica
Prunus spinosa
Rubus fruticosus agg.
Buddleia davidii
Rosa pimpinellifolia
Prunus spp.
Rosa cannina agg.
Comus sanguinea
Sambucus nigra
Acer campestre
Viburnum opulus
Crataegus monogyna
Corylus avellana
Ilex aquifolium
Aesculus hippocastanum
Crataegus x media
Prunus spinosa x domestica
Rosa rugosa
Quercus robur
Rhamnus catharticus
Sorbus aucuparia
Symphoricarpos albus
Acer pseudoplatanus
Sorbus croceocarpa
Prunus domestica
Ligustrum vulgare
Ulmus glabra


FERNS

English Name
Black spleenwort
Field horsetail
Maidenhair spleenwort
Wall rue

Scientific Name
Asplenium adiantum-nigrum
Equisetum avensis
Asplenium trichomanes
Asplenium ruta-muraria


BIRDS

English Name
Blackbird
Blackcap
Blue tit
Bullfinch
Carrion crow
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Coal tit
Collared dove
Corn bunting
Dunnock
Fieldfare
Garden warbler
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Great tit
Greater spotted woodpecker
Green woodpecker
Greenfinch
House martin
House sparrow
Jackdaw
Kestrel
Lesser whitethroat
Linnet
Long-tailed tit
Magpie
Marsh tit
Meadow pipit
Mistle thrush
Pheasant
Pied wagtail
Red-legged partridge
Redwing
Robin
Rook
Skylark
Song thrush
Sparrowhawk
Spotted flycatcher
Starling
Swallow
Swlft
Tawny owl
Tree sparrow
Whitethroat
Willow warbler
Wood pigeon
Wren
Yellow wagtail
Yellowhammer

Scientific Name
Turdus merula
Sylvia atricapilla
Parus caeruleus
Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Corvus corone
Fringilla coelebs
Phylloscopus collybita
Parus ater
Streptopelia decaocto
Milaria calandra
Prunella modularis
Turdus pilaris
Sylvia borin
Regulus regulus
Carduelis carduelis
Parus major
Dendrocopos major
Picus viridis
Carduelis chloris
Delichon urbica
Passer domesticus
Corvus monedula
Falco tinnunculus
Sylivia curruca
Acanthis cannabina
Aegithalos caudatus
Pica pica
Parus palustris
Anthus pratensis
Turdus viscivorus
Phasianus colchicus
Motacila alba
Alectoris rufa
Turdus iliacus
Erithacus rubecula
Corvus frugilegus
Alauda arvensis
Turdus philomelos
Accipiter nisus
Muscicapa striata
Sturnus vulgaris
Hirundo rustica
Apus apus
Strix aluco
Passer montanus
Sylvia communis
Phylloscopus trochilus
Columba palumbus
Troglodytes troglodytes
Mottacilla flava
Emberiza citrinella


BUTTERFLIES

English Name
Brimstone
Brown Argus
Comma
Common Blue
Essex Skipper
Gatekeeper
Green-veined
Grizzled Skipper
Holly Blue
Large Skipper
Large White
Meadow Brown
Orange Tip
Painted Lady
Purple Hairstreak
Peacock
Red Admiral
Ringlet
Small Copper
Small Heath
Small Skipper
Small Tortoiseshell
Small White
Speckled Wood
Wall Brown
White-letter Hairstreak

Scientific Name
Gonepheryx rhamni
Aricia agestis
Polygonia c-album
Polyommatus icarus
Thymelicus lineola
Pyronia tithonus
White Pieris napi
Pyrgus malvae
Celastrina argiolus
Ochlodes venatus
Pieris brassicae
Maniola jurtina
Euchloe cardamines
Cynthia cardui
Zeozephyus quercus
Inachis io
Vanessa atalanta
Aphantopus hyperantus
Lycaena phlaeas
Coenonympha pamphilus
Thymelicus sylvestis
Aglais urticae
Pieris rapae
Pararge aegeria
Lasiommata megera
Strymonidia w-album


MOTHS

English Name
Angle Shades
Barred Rivulet
Bright-line Brown-eye
Brimstone Moth
Broken-barred corylata
Broom
Brown Rustic
Chinese Character (larvae seen)

Cinnabar
Clouded Silver
Common Carpet
Common Marbled Carpet
Common Pug
Common Swift
Common Wainscot
Coxcomb Prominent
Cream-bordered Green-pea (Grade 1 N,L)
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
Dusky Sallow

Five-spot Burnet Moth
Flame Shoulder
Four-spotted Moth
Green Carpet
Green Silver-lines
Grey Dagger (larvae seen)
Grey Pine Carpet
Heart and Dart
Large Nutmeg (Grade 4 N,L)
Large Yellow Underwing
Latticed Heath
Lime Hawk-moth
Lime-speck Pug
Middle-barred Minor

Mother Shipton
Mottled Pug
Narrow-bordered 5-spot Burnet
Poplar Grey
Poplar Hawk-moth
Rufous Minor
Rustic Shoulder-knot
Sallow Kitten
Scalloped Hazel
Setaceous Hebrew-character
Shaded Broad-bar
Shuttle-shaped
Silver Ground-carpet
Small yellow underwing
Small Yellow-wave
Spruce Carpet
Tawny Marbled Minor
Waved Umber
White Ermine
White-spotted Pug (Grade 1 N,L)
Yellow-tail (larvae seen)

Scientific Name
Phlogophora meticulosa
Perizoma bifaciata
Lacanobia oleracea
Opisthograptis luteolata
Carpet Electrophaes
Ceramica pisi
Rusina ferruginea
Cilix glaucata

Tyria jacobaea
Bapta temerata
Epirrhoe alternata
Chloroclysta truncata
Eupithaecia assimilata
Hepialus lupulinus
Leucania pallens
Ptilodon capucina
Eanias clorana
Xanthorhoe furrugata
Eremobia ochroleuca
Zygaena trifoli palustrella
Ochropleura plecta
Tyta lactuosa
Colostygia pectinataria
Pseudoips fagana
Acronicta psi
Thera obeliscata
Agrotis exlamationis
Apamea infestra
Noctua pronuba
Semiothisa clathrata
Mimas tiliae
Eupithecia centaureata
Procus fasciuncula

Callistege mi
Eupithecia exiquata
Zygaena lonicerae
Acronicta megacephala
Laothoe populi
Procus versicolor
Apamea sordens
Harpyia furcula
Gonodontis chenopodiata
Xestria c-nigrum
Ortholitha chenopodiata
Dart Agrotis puta
Xanthorhoe montanata
Panemeria tenebrata
Hydrelia flammeolaria
Thera variata
Procus latruncular
Menophyra abruptaria
Spilosoma lubricipeda
Eupithecia tripunctaria
Euproctis similis

HERBS AND GRASSES

English Name
Agrimony
Annual meadow-grass
Bird's-foot trefoil
Biting stonecrop
Bittersweet
Black knapweed
Black medick
Black nightshade
Bladder campion
Blue fleabane
Broad-leaved dock
Broad-leaved everlasting pea
Burnet-saxifrage
Canadian fleabane
Centaury
Changing forget-me-not
Cock's-foot
Colts foot
Common bent
Common cat’s-ear
Common chickweed
Common cleavers
Common cornsalad
Common couch-grass
Common cudweed
Common dog-violet
Common field speedwell
Common mouse-ear
Common nettle
Common ragwort
Common sorrel
Common toadflax
Common vetch
Cornflower
Cow-parsley
Cowslip
Creeping bent
Creeping buttercup
Creeping cinquefoil
Creeping Jenny
Creeping thistle
Cut-leaved crane's-bill
Daisy
Dandelion
Dove's-foot cranes-bill
Drooping brome
Earlv hair-grass
Fairy flax
False oat-grass
Fern-grass
Field bindweed
Field forget-me-not
Fool’s parsley
Garden grape hyacinth
Garden lupin
Garlic-mustard
Germander speedwell
Glaucous sedge
Greater knapweed
Greater plantain
Ground-ivy
Hairy brome
Hairy sedge
Hairy tare
Hairy violet
Hawkweed species
Hawkweed species
Hawkweed species
Hedge bindweed
Hedge woundwort
Hedge-mustard
Hoary cress
Hoary plantain
Hogweed
Hop trefoil
Ivy
Kidney vetch
Lady's bedstraw
Large thyme
Lesser burdock
Lesser celendine
Lesser toadflax
Lesser trefoil
Long-headed poppy
Meadow buttercup
Meadow foxtail
Meadow vetchling
Meadowsweet
Mouse-ear hawkweed
Mugwort
Mullein
Musk mallow
Narrow-leaved meadow-grass
Nipplewort
Opium poppy
Ox-eye daisy
Oxford ragwort
Parsley-piert
Perforate St. John's-wort
Perennial rye-grass
Pineappleweed
Pink sp
Purple toadflax
Quaking grass
Rat's-tail fescue
Red clover
Red dead-nettle
Red fescue
Ribbed melilot
Ribwort plantain
Rosebav willowherb
Rough hawkbit
Rough meadow-grass
Salad burnet
Self-heal
Sheep's fescue
Shepherd's purse
Silver hair-grass
Silverweed
Smith's pepperwort
Smooth hawk's-beard
Smooth meadow-grass
Soft brome
Spanish bluebell
Spear thistle
Squirrel-tail fescue
Sterile brome
Sticky mouse-ear
Stinking iris (Gladdon)
Sweet vernal grass
Sweet violet
Tall melilot
Tansy
Teasel
Upright brome
Wall barley
Wall speedwell
Weld
White clover
White dead-nettle
Wild carrot
Wlld parsnip
Wild turnip
Wood avens
Yarrow
Yellow oat-grass
Yellow stonecrop
Yellow-juiced poppy
Yorkshire-fog


Scientific Name
Agrimonia eupatoria
Poa annua
Lotus corniculatus
Sedum acre
Solanum dulcamara
Centaurea nigra
Medicago lupulina
Solanum nigrum
Silene vulgaris
Erigeron acer
Rumex obtusifolius
Lathyrus latifolius
Pimpinnella saxifraga
Conyza canadensis
Centaurium erithraea
Myosotis discolor
Dacylis glomerata
Tussilago farfara
Agrostis capillaris
Hypochoeris radicata
Stellaria media
Galium aparine
Valerianella locusta
Elytrigia repens
Filago vulgaris
Viola riviniana
Veronica persica
Cerastium fontanum
Urtica dioica
Senecio jacobaea
Rumex acetosa
Linaria vulgaris
Vicia sativa
Centuarea cyanus
Anthriscus sylvestris
Primula veris
Agrostis stolonifera
Ranunculus repens
Potentilla reptans
Lysimachia nummularia
Cirsium arvense
Geranium dissectum
Bellis perennis
Taraxacum officinale agg
Geranium molle
Bromus tectorum
Aira praecox
Linum catharticum
Arrhenatherum elatius
Catapodium rigidum
Convuvulus arvensis
Myosotis arvensis
Aethusa cynapium
Muscari armeniacum
Lupinus polyphyllus
Alliaria petiolata
Veronica chamaedrys
Carex flacca
Centaurea scabiosa
Plantago major
Glechoma hederacea
Bromus ramosus
Carex hirta
Vicia hirsuta
Viola hirta
Hieracium grandidens
Hieracium murorum
Hieracium vulgatum
Calystegia sepium
Stachys sylvatica
Sisymbrium officinale
Lepidium draba
Plantago media
Heracleum sphondylium
Trifolium campestre
Hedera helix
Anthyllis vulneraria
Galium verum
Thymus pulgioides
Arctium minus
Ranunculus ficaria
Chaenorhinum minus
Trifolium dubium
Papaver dubium
Rununculus acris
Alopecurus pratensis
Lathyrus pratensis
Filipendula ulmaria
Pilosella officinarum
Artemesia vulgaris
Verbascum thapsus
Malva moschata
Poa angustifolium
Lapsana communis
Papaver somniferum
Leucanthemum vulgare
Senecio squalidus
Aphanes arvensis
Hypericum perforatum
Lolium perenne
Matricaria discoidea
Dianthus coronaries
Linaria purpurea
Briza media
Vulpia myuros
Trifolium pratense
Lamium purpureum
Festuca rubra
Melilotus officinalis
Plantago lanceolata
Chamaenerion angustifolium
Leontodon hispidus
Poa trivialis
Sanguisorbia minor
Prunella vulgaris
Festuca ovina
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Aira caryophyllea
Potentilla anserina
Lepidium heterophylium
Crepis capillaris
Poa pratensis
Bromus horeaceus
Hyacinthoides hispanica
Cirsium vulgare
Vulpia bromoides
Bromus sterilis
Cerastium glomeratum
Iris foetidissima
Anthoxanthum odoratum
Viola odorata
Melilotus alba
Tanecetum vulgare
Dipsacus fullonum
Bromopsis erecta
Hordeum murinum
Veronica arvensis
Reseda luteola
Trefolium repens
Lamium album
Daucus carota
Pastinaca sativa
Brassica rapu
Geum urbanum
Achillea millefolium
Trisetum flavescens
Sedum acre
Papaver dubium locoquii
Holcus lanatus


MICRO-MOTHS


Agapeta hamana
Crambus lathoniellus
Diamond-back moth
Pammene aurana
Pterophorus pentadactyle
Scoparia pyralella


 


GROUND-CRAWLING INVERTEBRATES

 


Annelida/Lumbricidae (Segmented worms)
Allolobophora chlorotica
Allolobophora sp2
Lumbricus castaneus
Lumbicus terrestris

Arachnida/Acari (Ticks and mites)
Oribatidae

Arachnida/Opiliones (Harvestmen spiders)
Mitostroma chrysomelas
Nemastroma bimaculatum
Oligolophus tridens

Arachnida/Araneae (Spiders)

Lycosidae (Wolf spiders)
Alopecosa barbipes
Lycosa proxima
Lycosa sp 2

Araneidae (Orb web spiders)
Larinioides cornutus (Aranaeus)

Gnaphosidae (Sac spiders)
Drassodes lapidosus
Zelotes pusillus

Linyphiidae (Sheet web spiders)
Bathyphantes nigrinis
Centromerus sylvaticus
Lepthyphantes tenuis
Walckenaera acuminata

Collembola (Springtails)
Entomobrya sp 1
Entomobrya sp 2
Tomocerus flavescens

Crustacea/Isopoda (Woodlice)
Oniscus asellus
Porcellio scaber

Insecta/Orthoptera (Grasshoppers etc)
Stenobothrus lineatus

Insecta/Dermaptera (Earwigs)
Forficula auricularia

Insecta/Hemiptera (Aphids)
Cicadellidae sp

Insecta/Diptera (Flies)

Dryomizidae
Dryomyza sp 1
Dryomyza sp 2

Anisopodidae
Anisopus ferestralis

Sphaeroceridae
Sphaeroceridae sp 1
Sphaeroceridae sp 2

Trichoceridae
Trichocera sp

Diastatidae

Lonchopteridae
Lonchoptera sp

Heliomyzadae
Heliomyza sp

Calliphoridae

Insecta/Coleoptera (beetles)

Carabidae
Bembidion sp
Bradycellus sharpi
Bradycellus verbasci
Harpalus sp larvae
Leistus spinabarbis
Leistus fulvibarbis
Leistus rufomarginatus
Leistus ferrugineus
Nebria brevicollis
Notiophilus biguttatus
Pterostichus madidus

Cholevidae
Catops fulginosus
Choleva oblonga


Staphylinidae
Lathrimaeum atrocephalum
Lesteva heeri
Lesteva longelytra
Ocypus olens
Oxytelus sp
Staphylinus aenocephalus
Stenus sp

Coccinellidae
Coccinella 7 punctata

Chrysomelidae
Chrysolina oleracea
Lythraria salicariae
Sphaeroderma sp

Cantharidae
Cantharis sp larvae

Curculionidae
Alophus triguttatus

Insecta/Hymenoptera (Ants, bees and wasps)
Bombus pascorum
Myrmica sp

Mollusca (Slugs and snails)
Agriolimax reticulates
Arion circumscriptus
Cepaea hortensis
Helicella itala
Hygromia hispida
Oxychilus allarius
Vitirina pellucida

Myriapoda/Diplopoda (Millipedes)
Iulus sp
Polydesmus angustus
Tachypodoiulus niger

Myriapoda/ Chilopoda (Centipedes)
Lithobius forficatus

 

 

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