Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre survey report www.hants.gov.uk/biodiversity/hbic
Havant Borough Council
30/07/04
Joel Miller
The site is two fields squeezed between the A27 and a railway line, situated on the outskirts of Emsworth. The fields are rough and scrubby but have a fair diversity of species, including 3 grassland indicator species; hoary ragwort, stone parsley and meadow barley.
The western field has extensive bramble and hawthorn scrub along with locally abundant michaelmas daisy and canadian goldenrod. The sward is improved to semi-improved. The main grasses are rye grass, cock’sfoot, false oat-grass and bents. Herb presence is fair with fleabane, ragworts, plantains, black knapweed and clovers. Stone parsley was locally abundant in places.
The eastern field has much less scrub and tall-herb invasion. The sward is similar to the western field, with more abundant false oat-grass and some areas of low diversity. However, all three indicator species were present with stone parsley locally frequent.