0 a plant that is a type of fern, often growing on rocks or walls. There are many different species (= types) of spleenwort. It was sometimes used in the past to treat diseases of the spleen.
Rare plants include: royal fern, sea spleenwort and sea purslane.
Rare plants, like the sundew, maidenhair spleenwort and rare species of orchid occur here, as do wildcat, birds of prey and stork.
One area with limestone rock features green spleenwort.
Trudell's spleenwort is intermediate in form between its two parents, and is generally found near them, growing on exposed outcrops of acidic rock.
Ford recorded many plants unusual for the area, including the bee orchid, the marine spleenwort and the adder's tongue fern.
The plant's common name is shining spleenwort.
