The Barkip sites have the typical bog plants, such as sundew, cotton grass, deer grass, and sphagnum mosses.
One of the three British species of carnivorous sundew plants or Drosera can be found here, and it is a known breeding site for the rare Merlin and Red Kite birds.
The Mire’s make-up of wet acid peat makes it ideal conditions for some rare and diverse species of plants such as Bog Asphodels (Narthecium ossifragum), Round-Leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), White Beaked sedge (Rhynchospora alba) and cranberry.
the sundew "petiolaris complex", a group in the Drosera genus of tropical Australian species which live in constantly warm but irregularly wet conditions
In his earlier research he was interested in angiosperms such as the genus Rosa and the species Drosera rotundifolia (common sundew), From the late 1860s, he focused on mycology, publishing significant works on the fungal class Pyrenomycetes.