Local Wildlife Site

Wildlife

Although the green is short-mown, its grassland supports several plants that are rare in London, including knotted, rough, clustered and subterranean clovers, lesser chickweed, fiddle dock and blinks. It has been suggested that staff from the nearby Royal Botanic Gardens have accidentally introduced at least some of these, but it seems more likely that they occur here naturally.St Anne's churchyard also attracts botanists to see the large number of unusual non-native flowers that have naturalised here. These include perennial rocket, pokeweed and annual valerian.Kew Pond is rectangular in shape with brick sides. A good variety of emergent vegetation has become established in the margins, assisted by the creation of soil-filled berms behind sand bags at the water's edge. These include galingale, soft rush, greater spearwort, purple loosestrife and yellow iris. Three small islands have been created in the pond and willows have been planted on the largest one. Common waterfowl, including mallards, moorhens and tufted ducks, nest on the islands.

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