Added to the importance of the above habitats, the Boho area includes large numbers of rare and protected plant species specified as priority species by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, including Irish eyebright (Euphrasia salisburgensis var. hibernica) which is located on the western edges of Boho near Knockmore cliffs, small white orchid (Pseudorchis albida), also known as the white mountain orchid, blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bermudiana), which belongs to the American element of the Irish flora i.e. those plants being absent from any other part of Eurasia but exist in North America, green-flowered helleborine (Epipactis phyllanthes), Cornish heath (Erica vagans), which is found near Boho, yellow bird's-nest (Monotropa hypopitys).