BFS 2 – Acid Grassland Wildflower Seed Mix for Sandy or Peaty Soils

This mix combines native wildflowers with grasses suited to acidic, low fertility ground, whether free-draining sand or wetter peat. Sow at 5g/m². Wildflowers make up 20% of the mix (16 species) and grasses make up 80% (5 species).

It corresponds to NVC communities U1 to U5 and the Habitat of Principal Importance ‘Lowland Dry Acid Grassland’. All seeds in this mixture are subject to availability at the time of purchase.

Wildflowers (20% of mix)

• 7% Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
• 5% Campanula rotundifolia (harebell)
• 12% Centaurea nigra (black knapweed)
• 5% Galium saxatile (heath bedstraw)
• 11% Galium verum (lady’s bedstraw)
• 1% Hieracium pilosella (mouse-ear hawkweed)
• 4% Hypochaeris radicata (common cat’s-ear)
• 11% Lotus corniculatus (common bird’s-foot trefoil)
• 5% Onobrychis vicifolia (sainfoin)
• 1% Potentilla erecta (tormentil)
• 14% Prunella vulgaris (selfheal)
• 12% Ranunculus acris (meadow buttercup)
• 9% Rumex acetosella (sheep’s sorrel)
• 6% Stachys officianlis (betony)
• 5% Succisa pratensis (devil’s-bit scabious)
• 1% Teucrium scorodonia (wood sage)

Grasses (80% of mix)

• 5% Agrostis capillaris (common bent)
• 5% Anthoxanthum odoratum (sweet vernal grass)
• 40% Cynosurus cristatus (crested dog’s-tail)
• 2% Deschampsia flexuosa (wavy hair grass)
• 48% Festuca ovina (sheep’s fescue)