Thrupp Lakes Species Data - grasses and ferns

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Thrupp Lakes Species Data

Grasses, Ferns and Horsetails

This page relates to grasses, sedges, ferns and horsetails in the area in and around the two lakes, known as Thrupp Lake and Bullfield Lake (or, to Didcot Power station operators, as lakes 'E' and 'F') at grid reference SU 518 975.

These lakes and their surroundings are currently threatened with desrtruction by Didcot ash disposal operations. Full story.

Grasses and Sedges

NAME	COMMON NAME

Agrostis stolonifera	Creeping bent"
Arrhenatherum elatius	False oat-grass*
Carex flacca	Glaucous sedge"
Carex otrubae	False fox-sedge"
Eleocharis palustris	Common spike-rush
Glyceria maxima	Reed sweet-grass"
Holcus lanatus	Yorkshire fog*
Juncus acutiflorus	Sharp-flowered rush
Juncus articulatus	Jointed rush
Juncus effusus	Soft rush"
Juncus inflexus	Hard rush"
Phragmites australis	Common reed
Schoenoplectus lacustris	Bulrush/ Common club-rush"
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani	Grey club-rush"
Typha latifolia	Reedmace

Ferns

NAME	COMMON NAME

Ophioglossum vulgatum	Adder's-tongue fern*

Horsetails

NAME	COMMON NAME

Equisetum palustre	Marsh Horsetail"

Plants recorded around ‘Spinage's Field' ( Lake E) and ‘Bullfield Lake' (Lake F) up to June 2005. Data up to 1998 Oxon BRC. With recent additions by Bob Eeles* and Penny Williams".

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