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Warton Crag Nature Reserve is as exciting to explore as it is to look at from a distance; but be careful, visitors have been known to get lost in the woods!
Warton Crag Nature Reserve is home to an outstanding collection of butterflies as well as some plants that are nationally uncommon and the best display of lichens on rocks in Lancashire.
The limestone ledges on the south face within the LNR display plants well adapted to the free-draining, shallow soils. Three vetches, Horseshoe Vetch (nearing its northern limit), Kidney Vetch and Bird's-foot- trefoil, produce a spectacular display of yellow in May and June while the yellow flowers of Rock Rose and purple mats of Thyme are a fine sight in summer.
In spite of their low stature, many of these plants have deep roots, descending perhaps a metre down into cracks in the rocks. This enables them to stay green for longer in times of drought, when the grasses have all turned brown.
Some of the level terraces on the Crag have outcrops of limestone exposed as pavement, a rare habitat in which slabs of rock are separated by deep cracks called grikes; notable species include Rigid Buckler-fern, Pale St. John's Wort and Angular Solomon's-seal.
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