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Highland Bio-diversity

Caithness Draft Index

Biodiversity Index

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Caithness Draft Plan
The Caithness Biodiversity Group  -  October 2002

A) Higher Plant Species of Note
(Source: Ken Butler)

1. Marine & Coast

1.1. The sea

1.2. Beaches, Dunes & Machair

Nationally Rare Holy Grass Hierochloe odorata
Nationally Scarce Oyster Plant Mertensia maritima
Hair Sedge Carex capillaris
Seaside Centaury Centaurium littorale
Scottish Scurvy-grass Cochlearia scotica
Curved Sedge Carex maritima
Eyebright Euphrasia foulaensis
Baltic Rush Juncus balticus
Locally Notable Rue-leaved Saxifrage Saxifraga tridactylites

1.3. Coastal Cliffs & Heaths

Nationally Rare Eyebright Euphrasia marshallii Eyebright Euphrasia rotundifolia Killarney Fern Trichomanes speciosum
Nationally Scarce Eyebright Euphrasia ostenfeldii
Small Adder's-tongue Ophioglossum azoricum
Scottish Primrose Primula scotica
Locally Notable Lesser Spearwort Ranunculus flammula ssp minimus

2. River, Loch & Wetland

2.1. Rivers & Lochs

Nationally Rare Estuarine Sedge Carex recta Holy Grass Hierochloe odorata
Nationally Scarce Shade Horsetail Equisetum pratense
Least Yellow Water-lily Nuphar pumila
Flat-stalked Pondweed Potamogeton friesii
Slender-leaved Pondweed Potamogeton filiformis
 
Long-stalked Pondweed Potamogeton praelongus
Locally Notable Variegated Horsetail Equisetum variegatum
Shore Horsetail Equisetum x litorale

2.2. Wetlands

Nationally Rare Scottish Smallreed Calamagrostis scotica
Narrow Smallreed Calamagrostis stricta
Nationally Scarce Bog Hair-grass Deschampsia setacea
Alpine Rush Juncus alpinoarticulatus
Locally Notable Broad-leaved Cottongrass Eriophorum latifolium

3. Farm & Croft

3.1. Rough Grassland

Nationally Rare Marsh Saxifrage Saxifraga hirculus
Nationally Scarce Pyramidal Bugle Ajuga pyramidalis Spignel Meum athemanticum Alpine Pearlwort Sagina saginoides
Locally Notable Juniper Juniperus communis ssp alpinus
Awl-leaved Pearlwort Sagina subulata
Magellan Ragwort Senecio smithii
Northern Marsh Orchid Dactylorhiza purpurella ssp. majaliformis

3.2. Arable Crops & field margins

Nationally Rare  
Nationally Scarce Purple Ramping-fumitory Fumaria purpurea
Northern Knotgrass Polygonum boreale
Locally Notable  

4. Forest & Woodland

4.1. Semi-natural Woodland

Nationally Rare  
Nationally Scarce Downy Currant Ribes spicatum
Coral-root Orchid Corallorhiza trifida
Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris
Round-leaved Wintergreen Pyrola rotundifolia
Locally Notable Polypody Polypodium interjectum
Northern Buckler-fern Dryopteris expansa

4.2. Policy woodlands & Plantations

Nationally Rare  
Nationally Scarce  
Locally Notable Common Wintergreen Pyrola minor

5. Moorland, Hill & Bog

5.1. Heather Moor

Nationally Rare  
Nationally Scarce Creeping Lady's Tresses Goodyera repens Dwarf Birch Betula nana
Locally Notable Hybrid Willow Salix repens x herbacea
Common Wintergreen Pyrola minor

 
Mountain Male Fern Dryopteris oreades

5.2. Blanket Bog

Nationally Rare  
Nationally Scarce Small Cranberry Vaccinium microcarpum
Locally Notable  

5.3. Hill

Nationally Rare  
Nationally Scarce Alpine Bearberry Arctostaphyllos alpinus
Serrated Wintergreen Orthilia secunda
Alpine Cinquefoil Potentilla crantzii Intermediate Wintergreen Pyrola media Alpine
Saxifrage Saxifraga nivalis
Lady's-mantle Alchemilla glomerulans
Alpine Mouse-eared
Chickweed Cerastium alpinum
Rock Whitlow-grass Draba norvegica Interrupted
Clubmoss Lycopodium annotinum
Locally Notable Wilson's Filmy-fern Hymenophyllum wilsonii
Hairy Rock-cress Arabis hirsuta
Crowberry Empetrum nigrum ssp hermaphroditum
Bog Bilberry Vaccinium uliginosum
Mountain Sorrel Oxyria digyna

6. Town & Village

6.1. Parks & gardens

6.2. Roadside & Railway verges

Nationally Rare  
Nationally Scarce Twinflower Linnaea borealis
Locally Notable  

Annexes

1. Habitats and Species Lists
B) Caithness Fungi Species
C) Freshwater Invertebrates of Caithness
D) Caithness Biological Records
2. Local contact details