Most of the wood is made-up of coppices of hornbeam (
Carpinus betulus) with oak (
Quercus robur) standards. Under the dense tree canopy, mosses mainly grow with a few patches of bluebells (
Hyacinthoides nonscripta), also blackberry (
Rubus fruticosus) and wood sorrel (
Oxalis acetosella) can be found. On the higher grounds, the woodland becomes more open, with silver birch (
Betula pendula) and hazel (
Corylus avellana) and some sweet chestnut (
Castanea sativa) coppice areas. The ground flora of the woodland has wood sage (
Teucrium scorodonia), bracken (
Pteridium aquilinum) and sanicle (
Sanicula europaea). On the west of the site,
calcareous (chalky) soils help support an ash (
Fraxinus excelsior) growth underplanted by mosses, ramsons (
Allium ursinum), bee and pyramidal orchids (
Ophrys apifera) and (
Anacamptis pyramidalis). The streams which pass through the site have eroded deeply into the rock layer to produce steep sided valleys. These valleys have alder (
Alnus glutinosa), with local abundances of grey willow (
Salix cinerea) above a ground flora of pendulous sedge (
Carex pendula), water mint (
Mentha aquatica), opposite-leaved golden
saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) and ragged robin (
Lychnis flos-cuculi). ==References==