BED 3 - CHALK CLIFF HABITAT:
This is a mixture of chalk boulders and crumb and very exposed. Again it contains no plant nutrition nor provides areas for plants to take root. Chalk crumbles and is weathered by wind and water forming fissures. In these fissure some deep rooted plants can form attachment and are the pioneers for this habitat. Gradually communities form along these fissures in the humus of decaying pioneer plants.
Plant Species in Bed 3 may include: Birdsfoot Trefoil, Bloody Cranesbill, Lady's Bedstraw, Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Rest Harrow, Rock Samphire, Salad Burnet, Sea Campion, Sea Kale, Sea Lavender, Sea Mayweed, Sea Stock, Small Scabious, Stonecrops & Thrift.
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