The sparse vegetation at the top is mainly wavy hair-grass, heather and bilberry.

Above the quarry, this is replaced by acid grassland, in which wavy hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa, is dominant.

Wavy Hair-grass (Deschampsia flexuosa)

Amongst them are the Wavy Hair-grass (Deschampsia flexuosa) and Common juniper (Juniperus communis).

Fine-leaved fescues, wavy hair-grass and purple moor-grass dominate the acid grassland areas with a mix of wood sage, heath bedstraw and other typical species.

The drier areas of heath have a grassy character, with typical species being matgrass (Nardus stricta) and wavy hair-grass (Deschampsia flexuosa).

Bramble, Dog's Mercury, Bluebell are prevalent in the ground flora together with ferns and ivy, Hart's-tongue and wavy hair-grass.

Wavy hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa, has wiry leaves and delicate, shaking panicles formed of silvery or purplish-brown flower heads on wavy, hair-like stalks.

The ground flora include Common Cow-wheat, Great Woodrush, Wavy Hair-grass, Foxglove and Slender St John's Wort.

Where steep slopes have inhibited peat formation, the blanket mire gives way to dry heath, in which heather, wavy hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa, and bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus, are the dominant species.

Avenella flexuosa L.; Lerchenfeldia flexuosa (L.) Schur), or Wavy Hair-grass, is a species of bunchgrass in the Poaceae family with a Holarctic distribution.

The dry heath is dominated by heather, Calluna vulgaris, and wavy hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa; the regionally rare bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, is found on the higher parts of Blanchland Moor.

A well developed ground vegetation thrives on their moderately rocky and fresh, but certainly not wet, soils, characterised in appearance especially by grasses such as shaggy wood-reed (Calamagrostis villosa) and wavy hair-grass (Avenella flexuosa).

The understory includes species such as Wavy Hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa, Common Bracken, Pteridium aquilinum, Broad Buckler Fern, Dryopteris dilatata, and Rowan, Sorbus aucuparia.

Typical species are: Moor Matgrass, Wavy Hair-grass, species of Agrostis, Sheep's Fescue, Green-ribbed Sedge, Cross-leaved Heath, Bell Heather, Bilberry, Black Crowberry, Deergrass and Bog Asphodel.

They do however, have a level of resilience and are able to survive for some time in grassland such as Deschampsia flexuosa.

The larvae feed on grasses, possibly including Deschampsia flexuosa.

Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin.

Wavy Hair-grass (Deschampsia flexuosa)

Amongst them are the Wavy Hair-grass (Deschampsia flexuosa) and Common juniper (Juniperus communis).

Olsen, C. (1938) Growth of Deschampsia flexuosa in culture solutions (water culture experiments) and in soils with different pH values.

The drier areas of heath have a grassy character, with typical species being matgrass (Nardus stricta) and wavy hair-grass (Deschampsia flexuosa).

The swards that it forms are not as tufted as sheep's fescue (Festuca ovina) or wavy hair grass (Deschampsia flexuosa).

Festuca vivipara is not present,F. rubra may occur, and Nardus, Deschampsia flexuosa and Molinia only occur in small quantity.

The dry heath is dominated by heather, Calluna vulgaris, and wavy hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa; the regionally rare bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, is found on the higher parts of Blanchland Moor.

The understory includes species such as Wavy Hair-grass, Deschampsia flexuosa, Common Bracken, Pteridium aquilinum, Broad Buckler Fern, Dryopteris dilatata, and Rowan, Sorbus aucuparia.

Succession from Heather Moorland to Birch Woodland: II Growth and Competition Between Vaccinium Myrtillus, Deschampsia Flexuosa and Agrostis Capillaris (with A. J. Hester and J. Miles, Journal of Ecology, 1991)