Walls of Cotswold stone are a significant habitat for a range of species and by reason of its location, Broadway holds a major reserve of Worcestershire’s share of this habitat type. Stone walls are an extreme habitat providing little soil and being prone to desiccation. Nevertheless they are exploited by lichens, mosses and some flowering plant species and function as migration corridors for those organisms which can live on them. In this role, they bring colour and life into the village, thus contributing to its Cotswold character.
 

 Flowering plants and ferns noted on Broadway’s walls include:

 Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium)
 Hart’s –tongue fern (Phyllitis scolopendrion)
 Ivy-leaved toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis)
 Pellitory-of-the-wall (Parietaria dioica)
 Procumbent pearlwort (Sagina procumbens)
 Red valerian (Centranthus ruber)
 Rue-leaved saxifrage (Saxifraga tridactylites)
 Rusty-back fern (Ceterrach officinarum)
 Sheep’s sorrel (Rumex acetosella)
 Wall lettuce (Mycelis muralis)
 Wall rue (Asplenium ruta muraria),
 White stonecrop (Sedum album)
 Whitlow grass (Erophila verna),
 Yellow corydalis (Corydalis lutea),