1. It prefers calcareous clay soil or limestone-based woodland soils. 2. They are mainly ash and pedunculate oak on wet calcareous clay soils. 3. The soil overlies Lias Limestone with shallow well-drained calcareous clays and clay loams. 4. This grassland on calcareous clay has diverse flora, including red fescue, sulphur clover. 5. The soil is mostly calcareous clay . 6. The site has a rich variety of plant species on calcareous clay pasture, a declining habitat. 7. The site is grassland on calcareous clay , and evidence survives of ridge and furrow medieval farming. 8. In the western portion of the prairie, the soil is a brown loess loam over calcareous clay . 9. The water clarity in summer is limited by phytoplankton growth and wave-agitation of the calcareous clay bottom. 10. The site is calcareous clay pasture with a wide variety of plant species, including the herbs oxeye daisy and yellow rattle.
