Mappp.co geology and wildlife sites

Stackpole

…Hornungia petraea is locally frequent. Small populations of yellow horned-poppy Glaucium flavum occur in dune blow-outs. Disturbed areas of the Warren and shallow rocky soils are notable for extensive stands of viper’s-bugloss Echium vulgare, slender thistle Carduus tenuiflorus, …

Back Bay to Carghidown

…a, sea radish Raphanus maritimus, sea kale Crambe maritima, yellow horned-poppy Glaucium flavum, and sea bindweed Calystegia soldanella. Behind the vegetated shingle, extensive carpets of burnet rose Rosa spinosissima and blackthorn Prunus spinosa have developed. The steeper slop…

Sefton Coast

…hire Crithmum maritimum, viper’s bugloss Echium vulgare and yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum. Mobile Dunes Marram grass Ammophila arenaria usually dominates the mobile dunes, amidst considerable areas of blown sand. Where rates of sand deposition decline, lyme grass, seaholl…

Bognor Reef

…nk shingle plant communities have developed, typically with yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, sea beet Beta vulgaris sp maritima and the uncommon sea kale Crambe maritima. Small grassy patches occur infrequently, with false oat grass Arrhenatherum elatius and red fescue Festuc…

Bracklesham Bay

…ively vegetated but common stork’s bill Erodium cicutarium, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, mayweed Tripleurospermum maritimum and the locally distributed sea kale Crambe maritima, all occur in places. A. small area of saltmarsh has developed in a depression behind the shing…

Leiston - Aldeburgh

…nfluence. On the open shingle, sea kale Crambe maritima and yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum are frequent with the irregularly occurring sea spurge Euphorbia paralias. The stable shingle areas support many species including early hair grass Aira praecox, the nationally scarce …

Sinah Common

…mmon. The shingle beach supports sea kale Crambe maritima, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, sea radish Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. maritimus, sea beet Beta vulgaris sp maritima and curled dock Rumex crispus. To landward, sand and humus have accumulated within the shingle, r…

North Norfolk Coast

…acre, thrift Armeria maritima, sea campion Silene uniflora, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, sea sandwort, sea beet Beta vulgaris sp maritima and bird’s foot trefoil. At the saltmarsh shingle interface, a discrete community occurs including shrubby seablite Suaeda vera, an u…

Morfa Dinlle

…hingle in the West Gwynedd AoS and includes species such as yellow-horned poppy Glaucium flavum and sea spurge Euphorbia paralias. The shingle beach also supports one of the largest populations of breeding ringed plovers in Gwynedd whilst chough feed on the dune grasslands. The s…

Purbeck Ridge (East)

…hmoides and white horehound Marrubium vulgare. The uncommon yellow-horned poppy Glaucium flavum is occasional. Ballard Down and Godlingston Hill have well-developed terricolous and saxicolous lichen and bryophyte communities characteristic of exposed turf, hard chalk rock and fli…

Thanet Coast

…e, in places, to a distinctive flora with species including yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, viper's bugloss Echium vulgare and the nationally scarce* plants sea kale Crambe maritima and sea pea Lathyrus japonica. The nationally rare** hog's fennel Peucedanum officinale has a…

St. John's Point

…ne vertical rock face, rock samphire Crithmum maritimum and yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum. St. John’s Point also supports an important invertebrate fauna. In particular, the flushes support the only known population of rare woodlouse Porcellionides cingendus in Northern Ire…

Seaford to Beachy Head

…led dock Rumex crispus, sea beet Beta vulgaris sp maritima, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum and sea bindweed Calystegia soldanella. The shingle bank carries a number of uncommon centipedes, some of which have been recorded from nowhere else in the UK. d. Marine Habitats Larg…

Lee-on-the Solent to Itchen Estuary

…rocket Cakile maritima, sea bindweed Calystegia soldanella, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, sand couch Elytrigia juncea, sticky ragwort Senecio viscosus and sea campion Silene uniflora. On the more stable substratum on the landward most shingle ridge, additional species are …

Alde-Ore Estuary

…zonation in the shingle vegetation. Above the high water mark Rumex crispus and Glaucium flavum give a highly distinctive character to the mainly bare shingle, with Lathyrus japonicus becoming much more abundant within the matrix further inland. This vegetation gives way in turn …

Broadwater

…uniflora, the shingle also has less common plants including Yellow Horned Poppy Glaucium flavum. Good stands of Common Reed Phragmites australis occur on river islands and on the shore of the lagoon and these have breeding birds such as coot and Sedge Warbler. Ditches, pools and …

Blackwater Estuary

… sea beet Beta vulgaris sp maritima and, at Tollesbury, the yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum. The sparse vegetation and the drift line litter are the only available habitats and have become the domain of rare, specialist jumping spiders Pseudeuophrys obsoleta inhabits the tide…

Traeth Pensarn

… crest shingle are characteristic ‘pioneer’ species such as yellow horned-poppy Glaucium flavum, curled dock Rumex crispus and the locally rare sea kale Crambe maritima. Regularly associated with these are plants such as sea fern-grass Catapodium marinum, sea beet Beta vulgaris s…

Colne Estuary

…ave been colonised by abundant sea campion Silene uniflora, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum and many mosses and lichens. Sand dunes which top the shingle ridge form one of the few dune systems in Essex, with characteristic species such as marram grass Ammophila arenaria, san…

Morecambe Bay

…raii, sea rocket Cakile maritima, sea kale Crambe maritima, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, sea holly Eryngium maritimum and sea sandwort Honckenya peploides are present. The shores of the Bay support a diverse terrestrial fauna. Associated with the saltmarsh are nationally …

Rye Harbour

…ferent plant species, including sea rocket Cakile maritima, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, curled dock Rumex crispus, thrift Armeria maritima and sea pea Lathyrus japonicus. A remarkable number of nationally uncommon plants are present including the least lettuce Lactuca sa…

Thorness Bay

…in places by sea sandwort Honckenya peploides and including yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, orache Atriplex spp., yellow melilot Melilotus officinalis, henbane Hyoscyamus niger and in places at the shingle/saltmarsh interface monospecific stands of the nationally scarce divi…

Browndown

…hingle, including the rare little-robin Geranium purpureum, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, red star thistle Centaurea calcitrapa and pale toadflax Linaria repens, vipers bugloss Echium vulgare and salad burnet Poterium sanguisorba. Browndown’s invertebrate fauna is also kn…

Trevose Head and Constantine Bay

…ational rarity, occurs here as does the locally distributed yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum. Red fescue dominates the maritime grassland bordering the cliffs of Dinas Head. Thrift Armeria maritima, rock samphire Crithmum maritimum, betony Betonica officinalis and the prostra…

Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay

…ecome established including viper’s bugloss Echium vulgare, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum and herb robert Geranium robertianum ssp. maritimum. After several centuries, a thin, well drained soil develops on the older shingle ridges and a variety of grassland species occur, i…

King's Quay Shore

…p maritima and knotgrass Polygonum aviculare, commonly with yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, sea sandwort Honckenya peploides and scentless mayweed Tripleurospermum maritimum. The rare sea heath Frankenia laevis has also been recorded from these spits. The intertidal muds ar…

Bembridge Down

…pyramidalis and the rare early gentian Gentianella anglica. Yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum also occurs along the cliff edge. At the junction between chalk and Upper Greensand the grassland becomes more neutral in character. Here the rare purple broomrape Orobanche purpurea i…

Pakefield to Easton Bavents

…eus. Disturbed open shingle occasionally includes plants of yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum. Disturbance of the shingle surface has led to the colonisation of these, more open areas by a number of species including false oat grass Arrhenatherum elatius, common mouse ear Ceras…

Morfa Abererch

…e and has been assigned to the curled dock Rumex crispus, -yellow horned-poppy, Glaucium flavum shingle community. The beach at Morfa Abererch also supports one of the largest breeding populations of ringed plover in Gwynedd The areas of dune heath, sand dune and shingle are back…

Slapton Ley

… Classification (NVC) communities of the vegetated shingle are: Rumex crispus - Glaucium flavum shingle community (SD1); Thinopyrum junceum spp. boreali-atlanticus fore dune community (SD4); Festuca rubra - Achillea millefolium - Lotus corniculatus community (MC11b); Arrhenatheru…

Compton Down

…abbage Brassica oleracea, rock samphire Crithmum maritimum, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum and the very rare hoary stock Matthiola incana in probably its major native location. The entire downland complex is of great entomological importance, notably for its very large popu…

Firth of Forth

…ll Geranium lucidum, bulbous buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus, yellow horned-poppy Glaucium flavum, pyramidal orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis, viper’s bugloss Echium vulgare and wild clary Salvia verbenaca. Nationally scarce thyme broomrape Orobanche alba and maiden pink Dianthus delt…

Tyrella and Minerstown

…ingle vegetation are scattered along the shore, and include yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum and the scarce oyster plant Mertensia maritima. The latter is particularly notable, as it is a northerly species in Britain and Ireland and occurs here at one of its most southerly loc…

Mournes Coast

…he Mourne Coast, including oyster plant Mertensia maritima, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, rock samphire Crithmum maritimum and sea kale Crambe maritima.Much of the strandline is backed by a band of maritime grassland of variable quality. The most frequent species include t…

Loe Pool

…olly Eryngium maritimum, sea fern-grass Catapodium marinum, yellow horned-poppy Glaucium flavum, sea sandwort Honckenya peploides, sea mayweed Tripleurospermum maritimum, and the very rare strapwort Corrigiola litoralis. At the northern inflow area is an extensive area of willow…

Barns Ness Coast

…ush Juncus gerardii, crested hair-grass Koeleria macrantha, yellow horned-poppy Glaucium flavum, sea arrow-grass Triglochin maritimum, sea meadow-grass Puccinellia maritima and various sedges such as sand sedge Carex arenaria, distant sedge Carex distans and long-bracted sedge Ca…

The Swale

…f both sand and shingle beaches, sea kale Crambe maritima*, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, marram grass Ammophila arenaria and sea rocket Cakile maritima occur for example. Where undisturbed these beaches attract breeding ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula and little tern S…

Pevensey Levels

…site. Although the shingle is largely bereft of vegetation, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, sea campion Silene uniflora and the nationally scarce sea kale Crambe maritima do occur; there is also a record for pyramidal orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis. The site supports outstand…

Dengie

…y or locally rare species such as sea kale Crambe maritima, Yellow Horned poppy Glaucium flavum, sea rocket Cakile maritima and shrubby sea blite. The flats between the tides and the saltmarshes at high tide, provide extensive feeding areas for internationally important members o…

Newtown Harbour

…lgaris sp maritima, halberd leaved orache Atriplex hastata, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum and sea spurge Euphorbia paralias, with thrift in the more mature and stable areas. The nationally scarce sea heath Frankenia laevis also occurs here. The sandy top of the western spit…

Foulness

…he Dengie Flats. The beach flora at Foulness Point includes yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, sea rocket Cakile maritima and prickly saltwort Salsola kali subsp. kali. Further south, along the beach of Pig's Bay, typical colonisers include abundant sea holly Eryngium maritimum…

Chesil & The Fleet

…tionally important populations of sea kale Crambe maritima, yellow-horned poppy Glaucium flavum, sea pea Lathyrus japonicus and shrubby sea-blite Suaeda vera occur. Sea holly Eryngium maritimum, Portland spurge Euphorbia portlandica and little-robin Geranium purpureum – a Red Dat…

Allt Wen a Traeth Tanybwlch

…pens, and supports colonies of sea bindweed Calystegia soldanella. Horned poppy Glaucium flavum, which is scattered throughout the site, is especially abundant at the southern and of the ridge, which has been artificially stabilised by rocks and a covering of soil. The lowest zon…

Compton Chine to Steephill Cove

…ion Silene uniflora, rock sea spurrey Spergularia rupicola, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, rock samphire Crithmum maritimum, sea radish Raphanus maritimus and two nationally scarce species, the white horehound Marrubium vulgare and hoary stock Matthiola incana. On soft roc…

Minsmere-Walberswick Heaths and Marshes

…Crambe maritima, grey hair grass Corynephorus canescens and yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum. A narrow strip of yellow dune extends southwards at Minsmere behind which is a strip of dune grassland. A series of shallow, brackish lagoons and saltmarsh occurs behind the shingle b…

South Walney and Piel Channel Flats

…unities include common scurvy grass Cochlearia officinalis, yellow horned poppy Glaucium flavum, mayweeds Tripleurospermum spp., sticky groundsel Senecio viscosus, sea sandwort Honckenya peploides and the local Portland spurge Euphorbia portlandica. The nationally scarce oyster p…

Map of the sites holding the search term ""Glaucium flavum""

Sites — ranked by relevance