Flora, Fauna, and Fungi
Flora
Below are some of the plants you may see on a visit to Old Park & Chequers Wood. These include many of the special plants characteristic of the various habitats (axiophytes), as well as others on the Kent Rare Plant Register.
Subterranean Clover (Axiophyte)
Upright Chickweed (Axiophyte & Kent Rare Plant)
White Bryony
Wild Garlic (Axiophyte)
Wood Anemone ADD (Axiophyte)
Wood Sorrel (Axiophyte & Kent Rare Plant)
Wood Spurge (Axiophyte)
Yellow Archangel
Alternate-leaved Golden-saxifrage (Axiophyte)
Bird’s-foot Clover (Axiophyte)
Blinks (Axiophyte)
Bluebell (Axiophyte)
Brooklime
Broom
Butcher’s Broom (Axiophyte)
Changing Forget-me-not (Axiophyte)
Clove-scented Broomrape (Axiophyte & Kent Rare Plant )
Clustered Clover (Axiophyte & Kent Rare Plant)
Common Cudweed (Kent Rare Plant)
Common Hemp-nettle
Common Twayblade (Axiophyte)
Common Wintercress
Cuckoo Flower
Early Forget-me-not (Axiophyte)
Early Hair-grass (Axiophyte)
Enchanter’s Nightshade
Gorse
Lesser Stitchwort
Greater Tussock-sedge (Axiophyte)
Harebell (Axiophyte & Kent Rare Plant)
Heath Bedstraw (Axiophyte)
Knotted Clover (Axiophyte)
Lady’s Bedstraw (Axiophyte)
Lesser Celandine
Lesser Centaury (Axiophyte)
Marsh Horsetail (Axiophyte)
Marsh Marigold (Axiophyte)
Marsh Woundwort (Axiophyte)
Moschatel (Axiophyte)
Mossy Stonecrop (Kent Rare Plant)
Narrow-leaved Vetch (Axiophyte)
Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage (Axiophyte)
Pignut (Axiophyte)
Red Campion
Rosebay Willowherb
Sand Spurrey (Axiophyte)
Sanicle (Axiophyte)
Sheep’s Sorrel
Solomon’s-seal (Axiophyte and Kent Rare Plant)
Sticky Mouse-ear
Common Stork’s-bill (Axiophyte)
Fungi and Slime Moulds
Below are a selection of fungi identified on a Kent Field Club field meeting in October 2024
Blackening Waxcap
Dusky Puffball
False Chanterelle
Fly Agaric
Hare’s Ear
Jewelled Amanita
Oysterling
Parrot Waxcap
Penny Bun
Plums and Custard
Purple jelly disk
Russula species
Shaggy Parasol
Slime mould
Spectacular Rust Gill
Stinking Dapperling
The Deceiver
The Miller
Ugly Milkcap
Wood Woollyfoot
Yellow Brain
Invertebrates
Below are some of the more distinctive invertebrates you may come across during your visit.
Ant Bug
Ashy Mining Bee (male)
Bishop’s Mitre Shieldbug
Black-spotted Longhorn Beetle
Blood Bee
Cabbage Shieldbug
Cinnabar Moth
Comma Butterfly
Common Darter Dragonfly
Cow Parsley Leaf Beetle
Ctenophora Cranefly
Epiphragma ocellare Cranefly
Fork-jawed Nomad Bee (male)
Gatekeeper Butterfly
Glow-worm Larva
Green Drake Mayfly
Green Hairstreak Butterfly
Green-veined White Butterfly
Grey-patched Mining Bee female
Hairy-footed Flower Bee (male)
Hedge Beauty Moth
Leafhopper and Soldier Beetle
Little Nomad Bee
Marbled White Butterfly
Nomada Goodeniana Bee (female)
Orange-tip Butterfly
Pirate Spider
Red-girdled Mining Bee (male) (Nationally scarce)
Small Copper Butterfly
Small Heath Butterfly
Solitary Bee (Colletes)
Speckled bushcricket
Speckled Wood Butterfly
Swollen-thighed Beetle
Tachinid Fly – Ectophasia crassipennis
Tawny Cockroach
Tawny Mining Bee (female)
Tipula maxima Cranefly
White Admiral Butterfly
Yellow-barred Peat Hoverfly
Amphibians and Reptiles
There are 10 native species of reptiles and amphibians in Kent, of which the following have been photographed on Old Park & Chequers Wood.
Viviparous lizard
Grass Snake
Slow Worm
Toad
Birds
Below are a selection of the birds that you may see around Old Park & Chequers Wood.
Turtle Dove
Buzzard
Cuckoo
Fieldfare
Firecrest
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Green Woodpecker
Kestrel
Linnet
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Nightingale
Redwing
Stonechat
Swallow
