On a recent staff training day to identify the plants growing around the Reserve, we were delighted to note the following list of water plants, including some rare species.
| Common Name | Latin Name |
| Round fruited Rush | Juncus compressus |
| Soft Rush | Juncus effusus |
| Jointed Rush | Juncus articulatus |
| Hard rush | Juncus inflexus |
| Spiked Rush | Eleocharis palustris |
| Hairy sedge | Carex hirta |
| Marsh Fox Tail | Alopecurus geniculatus |
| Meadow Fox Tail | Alopecurus pratensis |
| Orange Fox Tail (on rare plant register) | Alopecurus aequalis |
| Marsh Bedstraw | Galium palustre |
| Forget me not – water and tufted variety | Myosotis scorpioides and Myosotis laxa |
| Great Willow Herb | Epilobium hirsutum |
| Hairy Willow Herb | Epilobium Hirstutum |
| Water mint | Mentha aquatica |
| Bur Marigold | Bidens aurea |
| Nodding bur marigold | Bidens cernua |
| triffid bur marigold | Bidens tripartita |
| Sea club rush | Bolboschoenus maritimus |
| Bulrush | Typha latifolia |
| Grey bulrush | Scrophularia auriculata |
| Golden Dock | Rumex maritimus |
| Clustered Dock | Rumex conglomeratus |
| Water Chick weed | Myosoton aquaticum |
| Bur reed | Sparganium emersum |
| Lesser Reed Mace | Typha angustifolia |
| Common Reed Mace | Typha latifolia |
| Phragmites | Phragmites-communi |
| Redshank | Persicaria maculosa |
| Red goose foot | Chenopodium rubrum |
| Potentilla (silver weed) | Potentilla anserina |
| Mudwort | Limosella aquatica |
| Pearlwort | Sagina procumbens |
| False fox sedge | Carex otrubae |
| Water plantain | Alisma lanceolatum |
| Water violet | Hottonia palustris |
| Reed Canary Grass | Phalaris arundinacea |
| Toad Rush | Juncus bufonius agg |
| Marsh Cudweed | Gnaphalium uliginosum |
| Non Stinking Mayweed | Tripleurospermum inodorum |
| Marsh Yellow Cress | Rorippa palustris |
| New Zealand Stone crop | Crassula helmsii |
| Smooth Tare | Vicia tetrasperma |