Priston Species List

These lists have been compiled by Penny Rogers based on the contributions of many villagers.

If you have any comments/additions, please email to web@priston.org.uk.

Plants seen in Priston

• Hop
• Golden hop
• Nettle
• Dock
• Common sorrel
• Stitchwort
• Red campion
• Ragged robin
• Corn cockle
• Winter aconite
• Meadow buttercup
• Lesser celandine
• Traveller’s joy
• Summer pheasant’s eye
• Wood anemone
• Yellow corydalis
• Common fumitory
• Common poppy
• Rough poppy
• Cuckoo flower
• Garlic mustard
• Horse-radish
• Hairy bittercress
• Shepherd’s purse
• Meadowsweet
• Agrimony
• Great burnet
• Lady’s mantle
• Dog rose
• Bramble
• Wild strawberry
• Tormentil
• Tufted vetch
• Birdsfoot trefoil
• Black medick
• Red clover
• White clover
• Meadow cranesbill
• Herb robert
• Cut-leaved cranesbill
• Long-stalked cranesbill
• Wood spurge
• Dog’s mercury
• Common mallow
• Sweet violet
• White violet
• White bryony
• Rosebay willowherb
• Great willowherb
• Ivy
• Cow parsley
• Hedge parsley
• Wild carrot
• Ground elder
• Hemlock
• Primrose
• Cowslip
• Scarlet pimpernel
• Wild privet
• Hedge bindweed
• Field bindweed
• Hedge bedstraw
• Lady’s bedstraw
• Common cleavers
• Common Comfrey (added 23/4/2017)
• Field forget-me-not
• Viper’s bugloss
• Bugle
• Blue bugle (Ajuga genevensis)
• Wood sage
• Self-heal
• Ground ivy
• White deadnettle
• Yellow archangel
• Meadow clary
• Wild clary
• Hedge woundwort
• Water mint
• Wild marjoram
• Bittersweet (woody nightshade)
• Deadly nightshade
• Great mullein
• Common toadflax
• Ivy-leaved toadflax
• Foxglove
• Common field speedwell
• Brooklime
• Water speedwell
• Eyebright
• Yellow rattle
• Common broomrape
• Moschatel (townhall clock)
• Ribwort plantain
• Red valerian
• Guelder rose
• Honeysuckle
• Field scabious
• Teasel
• Hemp agrimony
• Daisy
• Butterbur (added 20/3/2017)
• Yarrow
• Ox-eye daisy
• Ragwort
• Oxford ragwort
• Thistle
• Knapweed
• Cornflower
• Sow thistle
• Dandelion
• Common catsear
• Mouse-ear hawkweed
• Orange hawkweed
• Ramsons
• Wild onion
• Bluebell
• Black bryony
• Bath asparagus
• Wild daffodil
• Snowdrop
• Lords and ladies (cuckoo pint)
• Flag iris
• Orchids
• Early purple orchid
• Pyramidal and bee orchid
• Broad leaved marsh orchid
• Common spotted orchid
• Dactylorhiza x grandis, hybrid between Common Spotted Orchid and Southern Marsh Orchid
• Ferns
• Hart’s tongue

Birds seen in Priston

(updated April 2016)

• Swan
• Mallard
• Grey partridge
• Pheasant
• Cormorant
• Little egret
• Grey heron
• Red kite
• Buzzard
• Sparrowhawk
• Kestrel
• Black-headed gull
• Common gull
• Herring gull
• Common tern
• Wood pigeon
• Collared dove
• Cuckoo
• Moorhen
• Coot
• Lapwing (added 6/5/2016)
• Spotted redshank (added 6/5/2016)
• Tawny owl
• Barn owl
• Little owl
• Nightjar
• Swift
• Kingfisher
• Green woodpecker
• Great spotted woodpecker
• Skylark
• Barn swallow
• House martin
• Pied wagtail
• Yellow wagtail
• Grey wagtail
• Dunnock
• Spotted fly-catcher
• Robin
• Song thrush
• Redwing
• Mistle thrush
• Fieldfare
• Blackbird
• Blackcap
• Willow warbler
• Chiffchaff
• Goldcrest
• Firecrest
• Wren
• Great tit
• Coal tit
• Blue tit
• Long-tailed tit
• Nuthatch
• Treecreeper
• Magpie
• Jay
• Jackdaw
• Hooded crow
• Carrion crow
• Raven
• Starling
• House sparrow
• Chaffinch
• Brambling
• Linnet
• Redpoll
• Goldfinch
• Greenfinch
• Siskin
• Bullfinch
• Yellowhammer
• Mandarin duck (added 25/5/17)

Butterflies

(provided May 2016, (updated Aug 2016)

• Painted lady
• Small tortoiseshell
• Red admiral
• Peacock
• Comma
• Dark green fritillary
• Orange tip
• Small white
• Brimstone
• Large white
• Speckled wood
• Gatekeeper
• Meadow brown
• Marbled white
• Ringlet
• Silver-washed fritillary
• Small copper
• Common blue

Moths

(provided May 2016)

• Cinnabar moth
• Six-spot burnet
• Scarlet tiger moth
• Hummingbird hawkmoth
• White ermine moth
• Setaceous Hebrew Character moth (added Sep 2021)

Caterpillars

(provided May 2016)

• Elephant hawkmoth caterpillar
• Spindle ermine moth caterpillar web