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 Moth

  Large 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.