Hay meadows are typically on fertile, neutral soils, and feature plants like knapweed and meadow buttercup, nitrogen-fixing legumes like red clover, birdsfoot trefoil and tufted vetch and many grasses such as
crested dog's-tail, sweet vernal grass and meadow foxtail.
The roll call included meadow fox-tail, sweet vernal grass, downy oat grass, wood horse-tail, red fescue,
crested dog's-tail, wood anemone, bugle, floating sweet grass, sharp flowered rush, ragged robin, wood cranesbill, marsh marigold, globe flower, yellow rattle, adder's tongue fern, and moonwort.