It is home to many species, including the rare quaking grass.

Plants found on the site include quaking grass and the common spotted orchid.

In the cutting garden, quaking grass and Job's tears provide abundant material for fresh and dried arrangements.

There is an abundance of Quaking Grass and Sweet Vernal-grass.

Quaking grass (Briza maxima) has dangling, heart-shaped seed heads that dance in a breeze.

The group is generally referred to as the quaking grasses because the flower and seedheads shake on their stalks in the slightest breeze.

If the seed heads hang by a fine thread, they are probably big quaking grass, Briza maxima, a k a puffed wheat plant.

Quaking Grass (Briza media)

The grassland species include Sheep's Fescue, Quaking Grass and Glaucous Sedge.

The grassland plateau supports Tor-grass, Upright Brome, Sheep's Fescue and Quaking Grass.

Behind him a huge, dangerous-looking jogger in bright purple shorts thundered up and then, after a brief, explosive display of sweat and breath, was off into the quaking grass.

This is dominated by Tor-grass, Upright Brome, Meadow Oat-grass, Sweet Vernal-grass and Quaking Grass.

They support Greater Burnet, Cuckoo Flower, Quaking Grass, Ragged Robin, Pepper Saxifrage and Meadow Rue.

Today, apart from the geological interest, the site is home to a number of species of birds and locally rare flora, such as Small Scabious, Milkwart and Quaking Grass.

Other grasses that are frequent in the sward include meadow oat-grass, Avenula pratensis, quaking grass, Briza media, sheep's fescue, Festuca ovina, and crested hairgrass, Koeleria macrantha.

Walking back down the hill by hole 17 the pockets of rough grass left by the edge had common spotted and pyramidal orchids together with yellow rattle, quaking grass and other chalk grassland flowers.

Greater quaking grass, Briza maxima; an annual grass whose nodding flowers rustle in the wind Love-in-a-mist, Nigella damascena; bright blue flowers which form puffy seed-heads that rattle when shaken.

I saw his grave when I took a short cut through the churchyard - a modest, friendly, even jolly little grave, where in summer moon-daisies and red clover grew, and quaking grass which little children call shivery-shakes.

Where a skeletal soil layer has developed on the quarry floor and spoil heaps, patches of grassland occur, with species characteristic of base-rich soils, such as quaking grass, Briza media, and limestone bedstraw, Galium sterneri.

The open grassland is rich in herbs, with fescues Festuca ovina and Festuca pratensis, crested dog's tail Cynosurus cristatus, spring sedge Carex caryophyllea, and locally quaking grass Briza media as dominants.

There are 16 species of grass and sedge recorded; with upright brome Bromus erectus, sheep's fescue Festuca ovina, quaking grass Briza media, crested hair-grass Koeleria cristata, and dwarf sedge Carex humilis.

The site has an important expanse of primary magnesian limestone grassland, in which the dominant blue moor-grass, Sesleria albicans, is associated with species such as quaking grass, Briza media, glaucous sedge, Carex flacca, and meadow oat-grass, Avenula pratensis.

Blue moor-grass, Sesleria albicans, is abundant, and there is a rich assemblage of species characteristic of calcareous soils, such as quaking grass, Briza media, meadow oat grass, Avenula pratensis, glaucous sedge, Carex flacca, and fragrant orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea.

Glaucous sedge, Carex flacca, quaking grass, Briza media, meadow oat-grass, Avenula pratensis, rock-rose, Helianthemum nummularium, and fragrant orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, are common, while sea plantain, Plantago maritima, is locally abundant in the grassland at the edge of limestone spoil heaps.