Plants

Certain individual priority plant species, identified as of principal importance, have been recorded in Barnsley. Others on the S41 list may exist in Barnsley but may not yet have been recorded.

Plants which are specially protected in England and Wales

Schedule 8 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981, which is revised every five years provides a list of endangered plants. Under the 1981 Act, it is unlawful to intentional pick, uproot or destroy the wild plant or any seed or spore attached to the wild plant.

In any proceedings the plant will be deemed to be wild unless the contrary is shown.

For some plants listed in the Schedule, the offence is only to sell, advertise for sale, etc. any live or dead wild plant or anything derived from such a plant. For example:English Bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta.

In process of compilation.