Lost plants in the Swale and Ure Washlands

This report and related study commissioned by LUCT and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust provides a fascinating insight to disappearances of local flora. The study is helping us to understand environmental change and the drivers of biodiversity loss, so that we can plan our efforts and contribute to the restoration of habitats.

Star Plants of Nosterfield Nature Reserve

Nosterfield Nature Reserve (including Flasks and Kiln Lakes) supports hundreds of vascular plant species (wild flowers, grasses and allies, and ferns).

Find out more about the rare plant species found naturally on our reserves as well as the ones we are saving from local extinction in our plant nursery and habitat restoration projects: