pilulifera (Pill Sedge)
remota (Remote Sedge)
sylvatica (Wood Sedge)
Cyperus longus (Galingale)
GRAMINEAE
Agropyron repens (Couch-grass)
Agrostis stolonifera (Creeping Bent-grass)
tenuis (Common Bent-grass)
Aira praecox (Early Hair-grass)
Alopecurus pratensis (Meadow Foxtail)
Arrhenatherum elatius (False Oat-grass)
Brachypodium sylvaticum (Slender False-brome)
Bromus mollis (Soft Brome)
sterilis (Barren Brome)
Cynosurus cristatus (Crested Dogs-tail)
Dactylis glomerata (Cocks-foot)
Deschampsia caespitosa (Tufted Hair-grass)
flexuosa (Wavy Hair-grass)
Festuca rubra (Red Fescue)
Glyceria fluitans (Flote-grass)
maxima (Reed-grass)
Holcus lanatus (Yorkshire Fog)
mollis (Creeping Soft-grass)
Hordeum murinum (Wall Barley)
Lolium perenne (Rye-grass)
Molinia caerulea (Purple Moor-grass)
Phleum pratense (Timothy-grass)
Poa annua (Annual Meadow Grass)
nemoralis (Wood Poa)
pratensis (Meadow Grass)
Sieglingia decumbens (Heath-grass)
NOTES ON TREE AND SHRUB SPECIES
Lords Bushes contains at least 40 species of tree and shrub. This list is undoubtedly
enhanced by the presence of a high proportion of non-native species which have
originated in nearby gardens or may possibly have been transported as seed some
distance for example by birds. In particular, the northern edge of Lords Bushes has a
number of introduced tree and shrub species, many of these including plum (Prunus
domestica), cherry (Primus avium) and lilac (Syringa vulgaris) appear to have originated
as suckers from the parent tree or bush in the adjacent garden.
The burnt and disturbed area has provided some notable records, in particular the
abundance of small trees of goat willow (Salix caprea), a species noted often as an early
coloniser of waste sites, and similarly a number of buddleia (Buddleja davidii) have
appeared on the area.
Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) occurs only in a relatively small area on the
Knighton Land side of the undisturbed woodland (bar a solitary seedling found on the
burnt and disturbed area) on ground possibly cleared originally in the nineteenth
century, following gravel extraction. Mountain Ash (Sorbus aucuparia) is not common
as a mature tree but well distributed mainly on the margin of Lords Bushes and in the
old gravel workings. It is traditionally considered to be an introduction in Essex, though
many trees undoubtedly arise from bird sown seeds, as no doubt have the seedlings of
this species found on the burnt and disturbed area.
Swedish whitebeam (Sorbus intermedia) is to be found only as a single mature
standard N.E. of pond P2; this tree has undoubtedly given rise to the seedlings found on
the burnt and disturbed area. Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) likewise is to be found only as a
single mature tree on the Knighton Lane edge of Lords Bushes it is a tree incompatible
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