Plantlife Wales - saving species

Saving wild plants in wales

Back from the Brink is Plantlife's endangered species recovery programme and works with some of the most threatened plants and fungi in the UK.

In Wales, the programme includes 42 species: 19 vascular plants, 10 fungi, 5 liverworts, 3 lichens, 6 mosses and 4 stoneworts. Of these, 34 are UK BAP species (www.ukbap.org.uk) and an additional three are identified as Species of Principal Importance for the Conservation of Biological Diversity in Wales.

A summary of the status of each of these species in Wales appears below. Species in green are UK BAP species, those marked with an asterisk are priorities for conservation in Wales (Section 74). For more information from the "Saving Species" section of the Plantlife website, click on each species' latin name.

HIGHER PLANTS (18 species)		Current sites	Percent decline
Campanula patula*	Spreading Bellflower	4	87
Carex depauperata	Starved Wood-sedge	0	100
Centaurea cyanus	Cornflower	7	86
Cephalanthera longifolia	Narrow-leaved Helleborine	4	64
Chamaemelum nobile*	Chamomile	27	56
Dianthus armeria	Deptford Pink	4	84
Galeopsis angustifolia	Red Hemp-nettle	7	84
Gentianella anglica	Early Gentian	1	50
Hypericum linariifolium	Toadflax-leaved St John’s-wort	4	43
Juniperus communis	Juniper	61	33
Lychnis viscaria	Sticky Catchfly	2	0
Lycopodiella inundata	Marsh Clubmoss	6	63
Pilularia globulifera	Pillwort	49	39
Ranunculus tripartitus	Three-lobed Water-crowfoot	28	45
Rumex rupestris	Shore Dock	5	38
Salvia pratensis	Meadow Clary	1	0
Scandix pecten-veneris	Shepherd's Needle	3	89
Silene gallica	Small-flowered Catchfly	13	79
Valerianella rimosa	Broad-fruited Cornsalad	1	83
-	-	--	-
LOWER PLANTS (18 species)		-	-
Fungi	-	-	-
Clavaria zollingeri*	Violet Coral	--	-
Hydnoid fungi (8 sp)	Tooth fungi	5	62
Hygrocybe calyptriformis	Pink Meadow-cap	~70	-
Hygrocybe spadicea	Date-coloured Waxcap	----	-
Microglossum olivaceum	Olive Earth-tongue	--	-
Lichens	-	--	-
Bacidia incompta	Sap Groove Lichen	1	93
Biatoridium monasteriense	-	1	50
Cladonia mediterranea	a Reindeer Lichen	0	100
Cladonia peziziformis	-	2	33
Heterodermia leucomelos	Ciliate Strap-lichen	5	38
Liverworts	-	-	-
Pallavicinia lyellii	Veilwort	4	50
Petalophyllum ralfsii	Petalwort	15	0
Riccia huebeneriana	Violet Crystalwort	6	50
Mosses	-	-	-
Bryum neodamense	Long-leaved Thread-moss	0	100
Bryum warneum	Sea Bryum	3	70
Cryphaea lamyana	Multi-fruited River Moss	10	9
Fissidens exiguus	Tiny Fern-moss	1	50
Sphagnum balticum	Baltic Bog-moss	0	100
Weissia rostellata	Beaked Beardless-moss	1	50
Stoneworts	-	-	-
Chara baltica	Baltic Stonewort	1	0
Chara curta	Lesser bearded Stonewort	5	0
Nitella gracilis	Slender Stonewort	3	0
Nitella tenuissima	Dwarf Stonewort	3	0

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