Storeton Woods: Plants, Trees & Flowers
Native species
These are some of the plants you can find in and around the area of Storeton Woods and are native to the UK and Europe.
Native: Apple (Wild)
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Native: Ash
Can reach 35 metres tall. This tree’s bark is normally pale brown to grey with distinctive black velvet buds and smooth branches. Light green oval leaves with long tips around 40cm long. Can be confused with Rowan and elder.
Native: Beech
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Native: Bindweed
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Native: Birch (Silver)
Tree with silvery bark can grow up to 30 metres tall. Small oval, light green leaves with jagged edges. Leaves turn yellow in autumn.
Native: Bluebell
Curved flower stem with narrow leaves between 1 cm – 1.5 cm with deep blue narrow bell flowers and curled tips. Sweet scented.
Native: Bracken
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Native: Bramble
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Native: Broad-Buckler Fern
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Native: Broad-Leaved Dock
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Native: Bullate Cotoneaster
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Native: Burdock
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Native: Cat's-Ear
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Native: Celandine
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Native: Cherry
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Native: Cleavers
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Native: Cocksfoot
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Native: Common Bent
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Native: Common Couch
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Native: Common Dog Violet
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Native: Common Sorrel
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Native: Common Vetch
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Native: Common Violet
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Native: Copper Beech
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Native: Cow Parsley
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Native: Cowslip
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Native: Creeping Buttercup
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Native: Creeping Soft-Grass
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Native: Creeping Thistle
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Native: Curled Dock
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Native: Dandelion
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Native: Dock (Wood)
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Native: Elder
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Native: Enchanter's Nightshade
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Native: European Gorse
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Native: False Oat-Grass
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Native: Fern
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Native: Fescue (Tall)
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Native: Figwort
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Native: Forget-Me-Not (Wood)
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Native: Giant Fescue
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Native: Great WillowHerb
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Native: Greater Stitchwort
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Native: Guelder Rose
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Native: Hairy Bittercress
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Native: Hairy Tare
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Native: Hartstongue
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Native: Hawthorn
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Native: Hazel
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Native: Hedge Mustard
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Native: Hedge Parsley
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Native: Hedge Woundwort
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Native: Hemlock
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Native: Herb Robert
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Native: Holly
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Native: Honeysuckle
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Native: Ivy
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Native: Ivy-leaved Speedwell
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Native: Jack-By-The-Hedge
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Native: Knapweed (Hardheads)
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Native: Laburnum
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Native: Lesser Burdock
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Native: Marsh Woundwort
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Native: Meadow Cranesbill
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Native: Meadow Vetchling
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Native: Meadow-Grass
Is a short-term perennial grass. Which improves moisture in the soil with organic matter. Very adaptable and withstands trampling.
Native: Meadowsweet
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Native: Mugwort
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Native: Musk Mallow
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Native: Oak
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Native: Oval Sedge
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Native: Pendulous Sedge
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Native: Plantain
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Native: Ragwort
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Native: Ramsons
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Native: Red Campion
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Native: Red Clover
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Native: Red Currant
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Native: Red Fescue
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Native: Ribwort
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Native: Rowan
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Native: Ryegrass
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Native: Scots Pine
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Native: Sheep's Sorrel
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Native: Soft Rush
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Native: Soft-Grass
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Native: Sorrel
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Native: Spear Thistle
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Native: Sweet Vernal-Grass
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Native: Timothy Grass
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Native: Wall Barley
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Native: Wavy Hair-Grass
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Native: White Clover
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Native: Willow (Crack)
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Native: Willow-Herb (Rosebay)
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Native: Wood Avens
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Native: Wood Millet
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Native: Yew
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Native: Yorkshire Fog
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Non-Native species
Non-Native: Apple-Mint
Strong smelling herb of the mint family. Grows up to 100 cm tall has oval leaves with spikes.
Non-Native: Bluebell (Spanish)
Straight flower stem with large leaves between 3 cm – 3+ cm with light blue / white or pink bell flowers and can flower all year round. No scent.
Non-Native: Coral-Bells
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Non-Native: French Cranesbill
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Non-Native: Giant Hogweed
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Non-Native: Ground Elder
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Non-Native: Himalayan Balsam
Highly aggressive weed can grow between 2-3 metres tall, with purple / pink flowers with a helmet-shape, each seed pod can produce up to 800 seeds and be dispersed up to 7 metres away.
Non-Native: Hogweed
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Non-Native: Holly (Highclere)
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Non-Native: Horse Chestnut
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Non-Native: Japanese Knotweed
Highly invasive and extremely difficult to remove, can grow up to 2.1 metres tall and has creamy-white flowers. Can damage building and grow through tarmac. Is actually illegal to have in some countries.
This weed is actually included in ‘Anti-social behaviours, Crime and Policing Act 2014’ for more information click here.
Non-Native: Montbretia
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Non-Native: Nettle
Common weed which causes painful sensations due very fine hairs on the leaves normally causes itching or burning which may last up to 12 hours. Can grow up to 2 metres tall.
Non-Native: Pineapple-Weed
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Non-Native: Raspberry
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Non-Native: Russian Comfrey
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Non-Native: Russian Vine
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Non-Native: Swedish Whitebeam
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Non-Native: Sycamore
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Non-Native: Willowherb
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Non-Native: Wintergreen
Native to North America, this wildflower forms a low spread mat of rounded glossy green leaves with soft-pink flowers and large red berries.
Source: Sarah Woods, Wiki, Woodland Trust Website, RHS Website.
