FREQUENCIES OF PLANTS IN SOUTH-EAST WORCESTERSHIRE

Terry Knight

The calculated frequency of the first 360 plants, ranked by frequency

Rank Frequency Common Name
1 96.04 Nettle
2 94.36 Bramble
3 89.80 Hawthorn
4 88.36 Creeping thistle
5 84.27 Cleavers
6 82.35 Cow parsley
7 81.87 Dandelion
8 77.55 Greater plantain
9 75.15 Cocks-foot
10 74.91 Elder
11 70.71 Ivy
12 70.35 Ash
13 68.55 Hogweed
14 68.31 Creeping buttercup
15 63.51 Dog-rose
16 62.79 White dead-nettle
17 61.46 Field bindweed
18 61.34 False oat-grass
19 60.74 Spear thistle
20 59.18 Ground ivy
21 56.66 Creeping cinquefoil
22 56.42 Ribwort plantain
23 54.98 Perennial rye-grass
24 54.26 Blackthorn
25 54.02 English elm ?
26 50.90 Broad-leaved dock
27 50.78 Bittersweet
28 50.18 Yarrow
29 49.58 Nipplewort
30 48.86 Barren brome
31 48.62 Field maple
32 45.74 Annual meadow-grass
33 44.30 Groundsel
34 42.14 Hedge woundwort
35 41.78 Prickly sow-thistle
36 40.70 Garlic mustard
37 39.26 Common chickweed
38 39.26 Common couch
39 38.42 Knotgrass
40 37.94 Cut-leaved cranes-bill
41 37.09 Shepherds-purse
42 36.97 Common field-speedwell
43 36.49 Great willowherb
44 35.89 White bryony
45 35.77 Wood dock
46 35.53 Wild plum
47 32.17 Daisy
48 31.33 Wild privet
49 30.73 Wood avens
50 30.49 Smooth meadow-grass
51 30.01 Herb-robert
52 29.65 Curled dock
53 28.57 Black bryony
54 28.57 Fat-hen
55 27.25 Yorkshire-fog
56 27.01 Common mouse-ear
57 26.77 Doves-foot cranes-bill
58 26.65 White clover
59 26.53 Smooth sow-thistle
60 25.81 Soft brome (hordeaceus)
61 25.57 Hedge mustard
62 25.45 Bristly oxtongue
63 24.37 Prickly lettuce
64 24.25 Hemlock
65 24.25 Wall barley
66 23.77 Teasel
67 23.41 Red dead-nettle
68 22.69 Water figwort
69 22.57 Sycamore
70 22.09 Welted thistle
71 21.97 Crack willow
72 21.37 Black medick
73 21.25 Apple
74 20.89 Pineapple-weed
75 20.77 Hedge bindweed
76 20.53 Perennial sow-thistle
77 20.29 Field forget-me-not
78 20.29 Red clover
79 19.81 Wild-oat
80 19.69 Autumn hawkbit
81 19.69 Charlock
82 19.57 Silverweed
83 18.37 Hoary ragwort
84 18.37 Scentless mayweed
85 18.25 Lords-and-ladies
86 18.01 Meadow vetchling
87 17.89 Field horsetail
88 17.77 Meadow foxtail
89 17.53 Ladys bedstraw
90 16.69 Black grass
91 16.33 Common vetch (segetalis)
92 16.21 Creeping bent
93 15.85 Common orache
94 15.49 Pendunculate oak
95 15.13 Mugwort
96 15.13 Redshank
97 14.89 Meadow buttercup
98 14.89 Smaller cats-tail
99 14.41 Beaked hawks-beard
100 14.41 Selfheal
101 14.29 Black-bindweed
102 13.45 Germander speedwell
103 13.45 Ivy-leaved speedwell
104 13.21 Common knapweed
105 13.09 Swine-cress
106 12.85 Sun spurge
107 12.73 Asparagus
108 12.73 Common mallow
109 12.73 Crested dogs-tail
110 12.73 Lesser trefoil
111 12.36 Stone parsley
112 12.36 Wall speedwell
113 12.24 Lesser celandine
114 11.88 Cowslip
115 11.88 Meadowsweet
116 11.76 Bulbous buttercup
117 11.76 Hard rush
118 11.64 Russian comfrey
119 11.28 Sweet violet
120 11.04 Colts-foot
121 10.80 Fools water-cress
122 10.80 Red campion
123 10.68 Common birdsfoot-trefoil
124 10.68 Fools parsley
125 10.20 Lesser burdock agg.
126 9.96 Greater burdock
127 9.84 Hedge bedstraw
128 9.72 Black nightshade
129 9.48 Buckthorn
130 9.48 Red fescue
131 9.48 Scarlet pimpernel
132 9.48 Smooth hawks-beard
133 9.48 Winter-cress
134 9.24 Hazel
135 9.24 Wild carrot
136 9.12 Goat willow
137 9.00 Meadow cranes-bill
138 9.00 Rosebay willowherb
139 8.76 Dogs mercury
140 8.64 Rough chervil
141 8.52 Hairy bitter-cress
142 8.40 Field penny-cress
143 8.28 Spear-leaved orache
144 8.28 Travellers-joy
145 8.16 Petty spurge
146 7.92 Common sorrel
147 7.92 Meadow barley
148 7.80 Dogwood
149 7.44 Brooklime
150 7.44 Tor-grass
151 7.44 Upright hedge-parsley
152 7.20 Oxeye daisy
153 7.08 Goats-beard
154 6.96 Timothy
155 6.84 Small nettle
156 6.72 White willow
157 6.48 Sticky mouse-ear
158 6.48 Yellow oat-grass
159 6.24 Reed canary-grass
160 6.12 Black horehound
161 6.12 Rough meadow-grass
162 6.00 Hairy brome
163 5.76 Agrimony
164 5.76 Equal-leaved knotgrass
165 5.76 Horse-radish
166 5.64 False brome
167 5.64 Meadow brome
168 5.52 Ground-elder
169 5.40 Red bartsia
170 5.40 Water-cress agg
171 5.28 Bramble (ulmifolius)
172 5.28 Dwarf mallow
173 5.28 Slender speedwell
174 5.16 Cats-ear
175 5.16 Pear
176 5.16 Perforate St Johns-wort
177 5.16 White campion
178 4.80 Common fumitory (officinalis)
179 4.68 Common ragwort
180 4.68 Tufted hair-grass
181 4.56 Hairy St Johns-wort
182 4.56 Red currant
183 4.56 Wild angelica
184 4.44 Square-stalked willowherb
185 4.44 Wild onion
186 4.32 Burnet-saxifrage
187 4.32 Male-fern
188 4.20 Hybrid hawthorn
189 4.20 Large bindweed
190 3.96 Bluebell
191 3.96 Common poppy
192 3.84 Bush vetch
193 3.84 Tall fescue
194 3.72 Field pansy
195 3.72 Rough hawkbit
196 3.72 Rusty sallow
197 3.72 Tall melilot
198 3.60 Cuckooflower
199 3.60 Field scabious
200 3.60 Hop trefoil
201 3.60 Wild parsnip
202 3.48 Biting stonecrop
203 3.48 Enchanters-nightshade
204 3.48 Hairy tare
205 3.48 Soft rush
206 3.36 Alder
207 3.36 Beech
208 3.36 Holly
209 3.36 Round-leaved fluellen
210 3.36 Thyme-leaved speedwell
211 3.24 Water mint
212 3.12 Greater knapweed
213 3.12 Greater reed-mace
214 3.12 Hairy sedge
215 3.12 Henbit dead-nettle
216 3.12 Hop
217 3.12 Pendulous sedge
218 3.12 Purple loosestrife
219 3.12 Scented mayweed
220 3.12 Wych elm
221 3.00 Procumbent pearlwort
222 3.00 Salad burnet
223 2.88 Common bent
224 2.88 Spotted medick
225 2.88 Upright brome
226 2.88 Water chickweed
227 2.76 False fox-sedge
228 2.76 Hoary cress
229 2.76 Honeysuckle
230 2.76 Long-headed poppy
231 2.76 Small-flowered cranes-bill
232 2.76 Sweet vernal-grass
233 2.76 Thale cress
234 2.64 Cats-tail
235 2.64 Rape
236 2.64 Tufted vetch
237 2.52 Celery-leaved buttercup
238 2.52 Dwarf spurge
239 2.52 Hoary plantain
240 2.52 Pale persicaria
241 2.52 Smooth tare
242 2.52 Thyme-leaved sandwort agg.
243 2.52 Wild strawberry
244 2.40 Bearded couch
245 2.40 Common duckweed
246 2.40 Hairy violet
247 2.40 Marsh thistle
248 2.40 Mouse-ear hawkweed
249 2.40 Oxford ragwort
250 2.40 Wild basil
251 2.28 Branched bur-reed
252 2.28 Glaucous sedge
253 2.28 Great mullein
254 2.28 Water forget-me-not
255 2.28 Water-starwort
256 2.16 Field pepperwort
257 2.16 Many-seeded goosefoot
258 2.16 Opium poppy
259 2.16 Sticky groundsel
260 2.04 Common club-rush
261 2.04 Common toadflax
262 2.04 Gooseberry
263 2.04 Silver birch
264 1.92 Common whitlowgrass
265 1.92 Field wood-rush
266 1.92 Horse-chestnut
267 1.92 Indian balsam
268 1.92 Spindle
269 1.92 Weld
270 1.80 Clustered dock
271 1.80 Fairy flax
272 1.80 Hawkweed oxtongue
273 1.80 Ramsons
274 1.80 Sanicle
275 1.80 Sharp-leaved fluellen
276 1.80 Three-nerved sandwort
277 1.80 Yellow-rattle
278 1.68 Dwarf thistle
279 1.68 Wild cherry
280 1.56 Bugle
281 1.56 Common comfrey
282 1.56 Common dog-violet
283 1.56 Giant fescue
284 1.56 Green alkanet
285 1.56 Ivy-leaved toadflax
286 1.56 Osier
287 1.56 Small toadflax
288 1.56 Strawberry clover
289 1.56 Tansy
290 1.56 Wood forget-me-not
291 1.44 Black mustard
292 1.44 Broad-leaved willowherb
293 1.44 Feverfew
294 1.44 Hedgerow cranes-bill
295 1.44 Primrose
296 1.44 Quaking-grass
297 1.44 Wall lettuce
298 1.44 Wayfaring-tree
299 1.44 Woodruff
300 1.44 Yew
301 1.32 Common centaury
302 1.32 Early dog-violet
303 1.32 Marsh foxtail
304 1.32 Spurge-laurel
305 1.32 Water-plantain
306 1.32 Wavy bitter-cress
307 1.32 Wood speedwell
308 1.32 Yellow corydalis
309 1.32 Yellow water-lily
310 1.20 Arrowhead
311 1.20 Canadian fleabane
312 1.20 Floating sweet-grass
313 1.20 Gipsywort
314 1.20 Great yellow-cress
315 1.20 Grey field-speedwell
316 1.20 Norway maple
317 1.20 Purple toadflax
318 1.20 Reed sweet-grass
319 1.20 Spiked sedge
320 1.20 Stinking iris
321 1.08 Dewberry
322 1.08 Gorse
323 1.08 Hawkweed
324 1.08 Marsh woundwort
325 1.08 Meadow fescue
326 1.08 Twayblade
327 1.08 Wood-sorrel
328 0.96 Common cornsalad
329 0.96 Common spotted-orchid
330 0.96 Field-rose
331 0.96 Greater burnet-saxifrage
332 0.96 Guelder-rose
333 0.96 Harebell
334 0.96 Honesty
335 0.96 Pink water-speedwell
336 0.96 Red goosefoot
337 0.96 White poplar
338 0.96 Woolly thistle
339 0.84 Annual pearlwort
340 0.84 Awned canary-grass
341 0.84 Bracken
342 0.84 Great horsetail
343 0.84 Greater celandine
344 0.84 Greater periwinkle
345 0.84 Harts-tongue
346 0.84 Lesser celandine (bulbilifer)
347 0.84 Oregon-grape
348 0.84 Pellitory-of-the-wall
349 0.84 Pignut
350 0.84 Wild mignonette
351 0.84 Wild thyme
352 0.72 Almond willow
353 0.72 Alsike clover
354 0.72 Blue fleabane
355 0.72 Broad buckler-fern
356 0.72 Common figwort
357 0.72 Common fumitory (wirtgenii)
358 0.72 Common storks-bill
359 0.72 Common valerian
360 0.72 Hybrid dock (pratensis)

 

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