Indicators of local distinctiveness

from JNCC - Common Standards Monitoring Guidance - Vegetated Coastal Shingle - 2004

by Suffolk Biodiversity Information Service

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Issue date: August 2004

Box 1. Typical spp. for vegetated shingle zones (see also Sneddon & Randall 1993)

Annual vegetation of drift lines Perennial vegetation of stony banks

Honckenya peploides, Cakile maritima, Atriplex prostrata, A. glabriuscula, A. laciniata, Salsola kali, Galium aparine, Matricaria maritima, Polygonum oxyspermum. Rumex crispus, Crambe maritima, Glaucium flavum, Silene uniflora, Beta vulgaris maritima, Lathyrus japonicus, Picris echioides

Indicators of local distinctiveness

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