Habitats and Species Information
The limestone areas of the Yorkshire Dales National Park are of national and international importance for wildlife. Large expanses of limestone grasslands rich in lime-loving grasses and wildflowers dominate the area.
This is also an important area for limestone pavements with 50 % of the UK's pavements within the Yorkshire Dales. Limestone Pavement is a unique and declining resource of international conservation importance which harbours a range of rare plant species. The springs and fens in the area give rise to unique vegetation communities associated with wet lime-rich ground. These often contain nationally scarce species such as bird's-eye primrose. Malham Tarn is extremely rare in the usually free draining areas of the "limestone country" and is internationally important for its submerged beds of stoneworts (a type of algae).
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