| Some of the plants that are typical of ancient chalk grassland include marjoram, wild thyme, salad burnet, rock rose, eyebright and squinancywort. |
| Notable species include the exceptionally rare red star thistle, as well as wild clary and squinancywort. |
| Other typical chalk grassland flowers include horseshoe vetch, squinancywort and the nationally rare field fleawort, together with wild candytuft and five species of orchid. |
| The rare cypress spurge grows in abundance here as does dyers greenweed and squinancywort. |
