Primula veris
Today Notcutts Garden Centre manages the site under the direction of English Nature. The meadow supports a diverse level of flora with over 150 recorded species, including various grass species such as common bent ("Agrostis capillaris"), red fescue ("Festuca rubra"), Yorkshire fog ("Holcus lanatus") and tufted hair-grass ("Deschampsia cespitosa"). Herbs include cowslip ("Primula veris"), betony ("Stachys officinalis"), great burnet ("Sanguisorba officinalis"), dyer's greenweed ("Genista tinctoria"), meadow thistle ("Cirsium dissectum"), saw-wort ("Serratula tinctoria"), heath grass ("Danthonia decumbens"), heath spotted orchid ("Dactylorhiza maculata"), and common spotted orchid ("Dactylorhiza maculata"). Fauna includes for small heath ("Coenonympha pamphilus"), meadow brown ("Maniola jurtina") and common blue ("Polyommatus icarus") butterflies.