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Species list


The following species have been recorded in the park since Devon County Council’s ownership.

  • Plants
    • Agrimony
    • Allseed
    • Amphibious Bistort
    • Annual Meadow-grass
    • Arrowhead
    • Autumn Hawkbit
    • Bamboo sp.
    • Barren Strawberry
    • Bearded Couch
    • Bee Orchid
    • Bell Heather
    • Bird’s-nest Orchid
    • Bittersweet
    • Black Medick
    • Bladderwort
    • Blue Fleabane
    • Bluebell
    • Bog Pondweed
    • Bog Stitchwort
    • Bracken
    • Bramble
    • Branched Bur-reed
    • Bristly Oxtongue
    • Broad Buckler-fern
    • Broad-leaved Dock
    • Broad-leaved Helleborine
    • Broad-leaved Pondweed
    • Broad-leaved Willowherb
    • Brooklime
    • Brown Sedge
    • Bugle
    • Bulbous Buttercup
    • Bulbous Rush
    • Burnet Saxifrage
    • Bush Vetch
    • Canadian Waterweed
    • Cat’s-ear
    • Celery-leaved Buttercup
    • Chaffweed
    • Cleavers
    • Clustered Dock
    • Cock’s-foot
    • Colt’s-foot
    • Columbine
    • Common Bent
    • Common Birds-foot-trefoil
    • Common Centaury
    • Common Chickweed
    • Common Club-rush
    • Common Dog Violet
    • Common Duckweed
    • Common Forget-me-not
    • Common Hemp-nettle
    • Common Horsetail
    • Common Knapweed
    • Common Marsh-bedstraw
    • Common Mouse-ear
    • Common Nettle
    • Common Reedmace
    • Common Sedge
    • Common Sorrel
    • Common Spike-rush
    • Common Spotted Orchid
    • Common Valerian
    • Common Vetch
    • Common Yellow-sedge
    • Compact Rush
    • Corn Mint
    • Cow Parsley
    • Creeping Bent
    • Creeping Buttercup
    • Creeping Cinquefoil
    • Creeping Soft-grass
    • Creeping Thistle
    • Crested Dog’s-tail
    • Cross-leaved Heath
    • Crosswort
    • Cuckoo Flower
    • Curled Dock
    • Curled Pondweed
    • Cut-leaved Crane’s-bill
    • Cyperus sedge
    • Daisy
    • Dandelion
    • Dog’s Mercury
    • Dog-rose
    • Early Purple Orchid
    • Eyebright
    • False Brome
    • False Oat-grass
    • Fan-leaved Water-crowfoot
    • Fennel Pondweed
    • Field Scabious
    • Field Wood-rush
    • Fleabane
    • Floating Sweet-grass
    • Fool’s Water-cress
    • Foxglove
    • Germander Speedwell
    • Gipsywort
    • Glaucus Sedge
    • Gorse
    • Great Willowherb
    • Greater Duckweed
    • Greater Plantain
    • Greater Spearwort
    • Greater Tussock-sedge
    • Grey Sedge
    • Ground Elder
    • Ground-ivy
    • Groundsel
    • Hairy Sedge
    • Hairy Wood-rush
    • Hairy Bitter-cress
    • Hard Fern
    • Hard Rush
    • Hart’s-tongue
    • Heath Bedstraw
    • Heath Dog Violet
    • Heath Speedwell
    • Heath Wood-rush
    • Hedge Bindweed
    • Hedge Woundwort
    • Hedge-bedstraw
    • Hemlock Water-dropwort
    • Hemp Agrimony
    • Herb-robert
    • Hogweed
    • Honeysuckle
    • Ivy-leaved Duckweed
    • Jointed Rush
    • Lady-fern
    • Lesser Burdock
    • Lesser Celandine
    • Lesser Hawkbit
    • Lesser Spearwort
    • Lesser Trefoil
    • Ling Heather
    • Lords-and-Ladies
    • Maidenhair Spleen-wort
    • Male-fern
    • Marsh Birds-foot-trefoil
    • Marsh Cudweed
    • Marsh Marigold
    • Marsh Pennywort
    • Marsh Ragwort
    • Marsh St. John’s-wort
    • Marsh Thistle
    • Meadow Buttercup
    • Meadow Vetchling
    • Meadowsweet
    • Michaelmas Daisy
    • Monkey Flower
    • Montbretia
    • Moss sp.
    • Narrow-leaved Water-plantain
    • Nipplewort
    • Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage
    • Ox-eye Daisy
    • Oxford Ragwort
    • Perforate St. John’s-wort
    • Perennial Rye-grass
    • Pignut
    • Pineapple Mayweed
    • Pink Purslane
    • Polypody
    • Primrose
    • Purple Moor-grass
    • Purple-loosestrife
    • Ragged Robin
    • Ragwort
    • Ramsons
    • Red Campion
    • Red Clover
    • Red Fescue
    • Red Valerian
    • Redshank
    • Reed Canary-grass
    • Remote Sedge
    • Ribwort Plantain
    • Rigid Hornwort
    • Rosebay Willowherb
    • Rosebay Willowherb
    • Rough Chervil
    • Rough Hawk’s-beard
    • Rough Meadow-grass
    • Royal Fern
    • Sanicle
    • Scarlet Pimpernel
    • Scentless Mayweed
    • Self Heal
    • Sharp-flowered rush
    • Sheep’s Sorrel
    • Sheep’s-fescue
    • Shepherds Purse
    • Silverweed
    • Skullcap
    • Slender Rush
    • Slender St. John’s-wort
    • Small Pondweed
    • Smooth Hawk’s-beard
    • Smooth Sow-thistle
    • Sneezewort
    • Soft Brome
    • Soft Rush
    • Soft Shield-fern
    • Southern Marsh Orchid
    • Spear Thistle
    • Sphagnum Moss
    • Square Stemmed St.John’s-wort
    • Star Sedge
    • Stinking Iris
    • Sweet Vernal-grass
    • Three-veined Sandwort
    • Thyme-leaved Speedwell
      Toad Rush
    • Tormentil
    • Trailing St. John’s-wort
    • Trailing Tormentil
    • Trifid Bur Marigold
    • Tufted Hair-grass
    • Tufted vetch
    • Water Cress
    • Water Figwort
    • Water Forget-me-not
    • Water Horsetail
    • Water Mint
    • Water Plantain
    • Wavy Bitter-cress
    • Western Gorse
    • White Bryony
    • White Clover
    • White Water-lily
    • Wild Angelica
    • Wild Carrot
    • Wild Daffodil
    • Wild Madder
    • Wild Privet
    • Wild Strawberry
    • Wood Anemone
    • Wood Avens
    • Wood Dock
    • Wood Sage
    • Wood Sedge
    • Wood Speedwell
    • Wood Spurge
    • Yarrow
    • Yellow Archangel
    • Yellow Iris
    • Yellow Pimpernel
    • Yorkshire Fog
  • Trees and shrubs
    • Alder
    • Alder Buckthorn
    • Ash
    • Aspen
    • Beech
    • Bird Cherry
    • Blackthorn
    • Bog Myrtle
    • Broom
    • Cherry Laurel
    • Coastal Redwood
    • Copper Beech
    • Corsican Pine
    • Crab Apple
    • Deodar Cedar
    • Douglas Fir
    • Downy Birch
    • Elder
    • European Larch
    • False Acacia
    • Giant Fir
    • Goat Willow
    • Grey Alder
    • Grey Willow
    • Guelder-rose
    • Hawthorn
    • Hazel
    • Holly
    • Holm Oak
    • Hornbeam
    • Horse Chestnut
    • Hybrid Cypress
    • Irish Yew
    • Italian Alder
    • Japanese Larch
    • Japanese Red Cedar
    • Juniper
    • LaburnumLawson’s Cypress
    • Monkey-puzzle
    • Monterey Cypress
    • Monterey Pine
    • Norway Spruce
    • Pedunculate Oak
    • Privet
    • Raoul Beech
    • Red Oak
    • Rhododendron
    • Rowan / Mountain Ash
    • Scots Pine
    • Silver Birch
    • Sitka Spruce
  • Butterflies
    • Brimstone
    • Brown Argus
    • Brown Hairstreak
    • Clouded Yellow
    • Comma
    • Common Blue
    • Dingy Skipper
    • Gatekeeper
    • Grayling
    • Green Hairstreak
    • Green-veined White
    • Grizzled Skipper
    • Heath Fritillary
    • High Brown Fritillary
    • Holly Blue
    • Large Skipper
    • Large White
    • Marbled White
    • Marsh Fritillary
    • Meadow Brown
    • Orange-tip
    • Painted Lady
    • Peacock
    • Pearl-bordered Fritillary
    • Purple Hairstreak
    • Red Admiral
    • Ringlet
    • Silver-washed Fritillary
    • Small Copper
    • Small Heath
    • Small Skipper
    • Small Tortoiseshell
    • Small White
    • Speckled Wood
    • Wall Brown
    • White Admiral
    • Wood White
  • Dragonflies and damselflies
    • Azure Damselfly
    • Banded Demoiselle Damselfly
    • Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly
    • Black Darter
    • Black-tailed Skimmer
    • Blue-tailed Damselfly
    • Broad-bodied Chaser
    • Common Blue Damselfly
    • Common Darter
    • Common Hawker
    • Downy Emerald
    • Emerald Damselfly
    • Emperor
    • Four-spotted Chaser
    • Golden-ringed
    • Hairy
    • Keeled Skimmer
    • Large red Damselfly
    • Migrant Hawker
    • Red-eyed Damselfly
    • Ruddy Darter
    • Scarce blue-tailed Damselfly
    • Small Red Damselfly
    • Southern Hawker
  • Birds
    • Barn Owl
    • Barnacle Goose
    • Bean Goose
    • Bearded Tit
    • Bittern
    • Blackbird
    • Blackcap
    • Black-headed Gull
    • Black-throated Diver
    • Blue Tit
    • Brambling
    • Bullfinch
    • Buzzard
    • Canada Goose
    • Carrion Crow
    • Cetti’s Warbler
    • Chaffinch
    • Chiffchaff
    • Chilean Teal
    • Coal Tit
    • Collared Dove
    • Common Gull
    • Common Sandpiper
    • Common Tern
    • Coot
    • Cormorant
    • Crossbill
    • Cuckoo
    • Curlew
    • Dipper
    • Dunnock
    • Egyptian Goose
    • Fieldfare
    • Firecrest
    • Gadwall
    • Garden Warbler
    • Goldcrest
    • Goldeneye
    • Goldfinch
    • Goosander
    • Goshawk
    • Great Black-backed Gull
    • Great Tit
    • Great-crested Grebe
    • Great-spotted Woodpecker
    • Green Sandpiper
    • Green Woodpecker
    • Greenfinch
    • Greenshank
    • Grey Heron
    • Grey Plover
    • Grey Wagtail
    • Greylag Goose
    • Herring Gull
    • Hobby
    • Honey Buzzard
    • House Martin
    • House Sparrow
    • Jack Snipe
    • Jackdaw
    • Jay
    • Kestrel
    • Kingfisher
    • Lesser Black-backed Gull
    • Lesser-spotted Woodpecker
    • Linnet
    • Little Egret
    • Little Grebe
    • Long-tailed Duck
    • Long-tailed Tit
    • Magpie
    • Mallard
    • Mandarin Duck
    • Marsh Tit
    • Meadow Pipit
    • Mistle Thrush
    • Moorhen
    • Mute Swan
    • Night Heron
    • Nightingale
    • Nightjar
    • Nuthatch
    • Peregrine Falcon
    • Pheasant
    • Pied Flycatcher
    • Pied Wagtail
    • Pintail
      Pochard
    • Raven
    • Redpoll
    • Redstart
    • Redwing
    • Reed Bunting
    • Reed Warbler
    • Robin
    • Rook
    • Sand Martin
    • Sedge Warbler
    • Shelduck
    • Shoveler
    • Siskin
    • Skylark
    • Smew
    • Snipe
    • Song Thrush
    • Sora Rail
    • Sparrowhawk
    • Spotted Flycatcher
    • Starling
    • Swallow
    • Swift
    • Tawny Owl
    • Teal
    • Tree Pipit
    • Treecreeper
    • Tufted Duck
    • Water Rail
    • Whimbrel
    • Wigeon
    • Willow Tit
    • Willow Warbler
    • Wood Pigeon
    • Wood Warbler
    • Woodcock
    • Wren
    • Yellow Wagtail
    • Yellowhammer
  • Reptiles and amphibians
    • Adder
    • Common Frog
    • Common Lizard
    • Common Newt
    • Common Toad
    • Grass Snake
    • Palmate Newt
    • Slow Worm
    • Alien Species: Red-eared Terrapin
  • Mammals
    • Badger
    • Bank Vole
    • Brown Rat
    • Common Dormouse
    • Common Long-eared Bat
    • Common Shrew
    • Daubenton’s Bat
    • Field Vole
    • Fox
    • Greater horseshoe Bat
    • Grey Squirrel
    • Hedgehog
    • Lesser horseshoe Bat
    • Mink
    • Mole
    • Noctule Bat
    • Otter
    • Pipistrelle Bat
    • Pygmy Shrew
    • Rabbit
    • Roe Deer
    • Stoat
    • Water Shrew
    • Weasel
    • Wood Mouse
  • Fish
    • Brook Lamprey
    • Eel
    • Perch
    • Pike
    • Roach
    • Rudd Tench
    • Three-spined Stickleback
  • Miscellaneous
    • Alder Fly
    • Backswimmer sp.
    • Broad Bordered Bee Hawk Moth
    • Caddis Fly sp.
    • Caddis Fly sp.
    • Common Backswimmer
    • Cranefly sp.
    • Cranefly sp.
    • Ephemeropteram sp.
    • Fly sp.
    • Four-spotted Leaf Beetle sp.
    • Freshwater Limpet sp.
    • Garden Tiger Moth
    • Glow-worm
    • Great Pond Snail
    • Great Ramshorn Snail
    • Hog Louse
    • Hornet
    • Horsefly sp.
    • Hoverfly sp.
    • Hoverfly sp.
    • Hoverfly sp.
    • Hoverfly sp.
    • Jenkin’s Spire Snail
    • Jersey Tiger MothLarge Longhorn Beetle sp.
    • Large red-belted Clearwing
    • Lesser Stag Beetle
    • Lesser Water Boatman
    • Midge sp.
    • Narrow Bordered Bee Hawk Moth
    • Orange Upperwing Moth
    • Orb Shell Cockle sp.
    • Orb Shell Cockle sp.
    • Plant Bug sp.
    • Plant Bug sp.
    • Poplar Leaf Beetle
    • Saucer Bug
    • Scarlet Tiger Moth
    • Silver Y Moth
    • Six-spot burnet Moth
    • Snail Killing Fly sp.
    • Snail Killing Fly sp.
    • Snail sp.
    • Snail sp.
    • Snail sp.
    • Snipe Fly sp.
    • Spider sp.
    • Stag Beetle
    • Trichoptera sp.

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