North Meadow National Nature Reserve

North Meadow has a great variety of wildflowers and is of international importance as one of the finest examples of a lowland hay meadow in Europe. It is protected as a Special Area of Conservation.The meadow also supports Britain’s largest population of the snake’s head fritillary, which appears in spring along with bright yellow clusters of marsh marigold and the pink of cuckooflower. Also at this time of year you may see the adder’s tongue fern.Greater burnet, common knapweed, cowslip, meadow buttercup and yellow rattle, ox-eye daisies, meadow rue and meadow sweet may be seen in the summer months.There are also over 20 species of grass, including crested dog’s tail and yellow oat grass