Editing Lundy (section)

===Flora===
[[File:Lundy Cabbage.JPG|thumb|left|Lundy cabbage (growing at [[Bristol Zoo]])]]
The vegetation on the plateau is mainly dry heath, with an area of waved [[Calluna]] heath; the northern end of the island is largely bare rock.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hubbard |first=Elizabeth |title=Botanical studies |publisher=Lundy Field Society |url= https://lfs-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/is/LFS_Island_Studies_Hubbard-Botany.pdf |date=1997 |access-date=9 February 2024}}</ref> This area is also rich in [[lichen]]s, such as ''Teloschistes flavicans'' and several species of [[Cladonia]] and [[Parmelia (lichen)|Parmelia]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Allen |first1=Anne |title=Lichen Specialities of Lundy: An Overview |date=2008 |journal=Journal of the Lundy Field Society |url= https://lfs-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/j1/LFS_Journal_Vol_1_Part_4.pdf |access-date=9 February 2024}}</ref>

Other areas are either a dry heath/acidic grassland mosaic, characterised by heaths and [[Ulex gallii|western gorse]] (''Ulex gallii''), or semi-improved acidic grassland in which [[Yorkshire fog]] (''Holcus lanatus'') is abundant. Tussocky (Thrift) (Holcus/Armeria) communities occur mainly on the western side, and some patches of [[bracken]] (''Pteridium aquilinum'') on the eastern side.<ref name="SSSI" />

There is one [[endemic]] plant species, the [[Coincya wrightii|Lundy cabbage]] ''(Coincya wrightii)'', a species of primitive [[brassica]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.lundy.org.uk/island/cabbage.html |title=The Lundy Cabbage |publisher=Lundy Field Society |access-date=28 May 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140529051524/http://www.lundy.org.uk/island/cabbage.html |archive-date=29 May 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

By the 1980s, the eastern side of the island had become overgrown by [[rhododendron]]s (''Rhododendron ponticum'') which had spread from a few specimens planted in the garden of Millcombe House in [[Victorian era|Victorian times]], but in recent years significant efforts have been made to eradicate this non-native plant.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Crompton |first1=Stephen G. |last2=Key |first2=Roger S. |last3=Pratt |first3=Steve |date=2016 |title=Progress Towards Eradication of ''Rhododendrum ponticum'' on Lundy |url= https://lfs-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/j5/LFS_Journal_Vol_5_Part_3.pdf |journal=Journal of the Lundy Field Society |volume=5 |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref>