Mappp.co geology and wildlife sites

Mullaghcarn

…num papillosum with associated pleurocarpous mosses, primarily heath plait moss Hypnum jutlandicum and liverworts such as Taylor's flapwort Mylia taylorii. The easily recognisable leafy liverwort purple spoonwort Pleurozia purpurea is frequent across the area and is a characteris…

Carn Gafallt

… Thelenella muscorum. Mosses found on less acidic bark include the sub-Atlantic Hypnum cupressiforme var. resupinatum. Lichens present on dry bark include Cliostomum griffithii, Calicium viride and the nationally scarce Bactrospora corticola and Chrysothrix chrysopthalma. Dead wo…

Cadair Idris

… with bilberry, crowberry Empetrum nigrum, wavy hair grass and the large mosses Hypnum jutlandicum, Pleurozium schreberi, and Dicranum scoparium are widespread and often extensive. This vegetation occurs in many areas including on Mynydd Pennant, Mynydd Cedris, and above Coed Mer…

Holburn Lake and Moss

…d common cotton grass Eriophorum angustifolium associated with the moss species Hypnum jutlandicum and a patchy cover of bog mosses including Sphagnum fallax, S. capillifolium, S. tenellum and S. auriculatum. The mosaic of irregular hollows support bog pool conditions characteris…

Blackdown (Hardy Monument)

…ea, the mosses: red stemmed feather moss Pleurozium schreberi, heath plait moss Hypnum jutlandicum, broom fork moss Dicranum scoparium and heath star moss Campylopus introflexus and several lichens of the genus Cladonia including C. portentosa, C. rangiformis, C. coccifera, C. fl…

North Dartmoor

…oreus, Racomitrium lanuginosum, Hylocomium splendens, Thuidium tamariscinum and Hypnum jutlandicum are abundant, while lichen-rich patches with Cladonia arbuscula, C. uncialis and C. impexa also occur. Among the more unusual species recorded on site are cranberry Vaccinium oxyco…

Waen Rydd

…h including Sphagnum recurvum, S. subnitens, S. tenellum, Pleurozium schreberi, Hypnum jutlandicum, Kurzia pauciflora and Ordontoschisma sphagni. Associated with the bog and wet heath communities there are also some very wet areas dominated by purple moor-grass which lack both de…

Prolusk

…moss Sphagnum compactum, lustrous bog-moss Sphagnum subnitens, heath plait moss Hypnum jutlandicum and glittering wood moss Hylocomium splendens all frequent. Other lower plants include the liverwort, bog moss flapwort Ordontoschisma sphagni and reindeer lichen Cladonia portentos…

Meddon Moor

…um palustre, Campylium stellatum, Breutelia chrysocoma, Ordontoschisma sphagni, Hypnum jutlandicum and several Sphagnum species, such as Sphagnum tenellum. Also of interest is the presence of the moss Hookeria lucens amongst the bases of tussocks of purple moor-grass. The site i…

Big Dog Scarps and Lakes

…us mosses including glittering wood moss Hylocomium splendens, heath plait moss Hypnum jutlandicum and little shaggy moss Rhytidiadelphus loreus. Characteristic herbs within the wet heath community include tormentil Potentilla erecta, heath milkwort Polygala serpyllifolia and whe…

Knock Dhu Sallagh Braes

…um molluscum, Tamarisk scalewort Frullania tamarisci, cypress leaved plait moss Hypnum cupressiforme and juniper haircap Polytrichum juniperinum. On wetter, more flushed soils lesser clubmoss Selaginella selaginoides is common. As the soils deepen further down the slopes the infl…

South Dartmoor

…oreus, Racomitrium lanuginosum, Hylocomium splendens, Thuidium tamariscinum and Hypnum jutlandicum are abundant. The granite boulders strewn across much of the site have rich upland lichen flora, with the large Umbilicaria pustulata being particularly conspicuous. The mires and …

Wetley Moor

…uosa, bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus, cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea and the moss Hypnum jutlandicum. The presence of western gorse Ulex gallii gives this community some affinities with the heather western gorse heaths common in south west Britain. As the ground becomes less steep,…

Tully Bog

…gnum capillifolium, with occasional Sphagnum papillosum. On the drier hummocks, Hypnum jutlandicum and Polytrichum commune are frequently associated with Sphagnum capillifolium, and the lichens Cladonia arbuscula and C. portentosa are locally abundant. Notably, Sphagnum imbricatu…

Rhosydd Bryn-maen

…, field wood-rush Luzula campestris and mosses such as Hylocomium splendens and Hypnum jutlandicum. A scarce type of acid grassland also occurs at Rhosydd Bryn-maen and is identified through the presence of betony Betonica officinalis, bitter-vetch Lathyrus montanus and harebell …

Moorhouse and Cross Fell

…hagnum cuspidatum predominate with other mosses such as Rhytidiadelphus loreus, Hypnum jutlandicum and Pleurozium schreberi, either in lawns or with a mixture of common cotton grass, deer grass, cross leaved heath and round leaved sundew. Some areas also have stands of cowberry V…

Exmoor Coastal Heaths

…r and bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus in which abundant bryophytes occur including Hypnum jutlandicum, Dicranum scoparium and Pleurozium schreberi. This typically upland community occurs here at altitudes as low as 250 metres because the slopes face North and are relatively cool. Th…

Murrins

…us mosses such as Pleurozium schreberi, Rhytidiadelphus loreus and particularly Hypnum jutlandicum. Part of the area is dominated by high glacial moraines, or eskers, where heath has developed on sands and gravels. The heathland communities consist of both wet and dry types and d…

Lough Navar Scarps and Lakes

… mosses including glittering wood moss Hylocomnillm splendens, heath plait moss Hypnum jutlandicum and little shaggy moss Rhytidiadelphlls lorells. Characteristic herbs within the wet heath community include tormentil Potentilla erecta, heath milkwort Polygala serpyllifolia and …

Tievebulliagh

…cover of heather Calluna vulgaris and bell heather Erica cinerea and the mosses Hypnum jutlandicum and Pleurozium schreberi. Vegetation on the deeper wet peat south of the crag is typical of blanket bog, dominated by common cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium and the mosses Spha…

Rhidorroch Woods

…ort species including Stair step moss Hylocomium splendens and Heath plait-moss Hypnum jutlandicum. The south-facing slope of Creag Ghrianach holds an excellent example of dry heath, dominated by heather Calluna vulgaris and bearberry Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. False click beetle M…

Altikeeragh

…minent Sphagnum capillifolium hummocks supporting Cladonia lichens and the moss Hypnum jutlandicum. Between the Sphagnum hummocks, there are flat, waterlogged lawns with locally abundant bog asphodel Narthecium ossifragum and common cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium. Sphagnum …

Frosses Bog

…y drier than the central core and sphagnum bog-mosses are generally replaced by Hypnum jutlandicum, with scattered, low hummocks of Racomitrium lanuginosum. The wetter hollows between the hummocks are characterised by the prominence of bog asphodel Narthecium ossifragum with occa…

Fair Head and Murlough Bay

… moss Dicranum scoparium, white earwort Diplophyllum albicans, heath plait moss Hypnum jutlandicum, red-stemmed feather-moss Pleurozium schreberi, little shaggy moss Rhytidiadelphus loreus, western earwort Scapania gracilis and common tamarisk moss Thuidium tamariscinum. There a…

Coed Maes-mawr, Coed Esgairneiriau a Cheunant Caecenau

…of bryophytes is present. The commonest species include Rhytidiadelphus loreus, Hypnum jutlandicum and Polytrichum formosum. In the humid ravines a notable western Atlantic flora is present, including the moss Dicranodontium denudatum and the liverworts Mylia taylorii, Bazzania t…

Slieveanorra and Croaghan

…m hummocks supporting reindeer lichen Cladonia portentosa, and heath plait moss Hypnum jutlandicum and the liverworts purple spoonwort Pleurozia purpurea and bog moss flapwort Ordontoschisma sphagni. Between these hummocks there are flat, waterlogged lawns with locally abundant b…

Gortnasoal Glebe and Meenadoan

…clude bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus and the pleurocarpus mosses heath plait moss Hypnum jutlandicum and woolly fringe moss Racomitrium lanuginosum, the latter forming large hummocks. Where there is water movement through the surface of the peats, generally in association with natu…

Migneint-Arenig-Dduallt

…Empetrum nigrum, the bog moss Sphagnum capillifolium and hypnoid mosses such as Hypnum jutlandicum and Pleurozium schreberi. In wetter areas cross-leaved heath Erica tetralix and the bog moss Sphagnum papillosum are more prominent and cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos is often presen…

Kirkby Moor

…ense, even aged stands as a result of burning over typical heath mosses such as Hypnum jutlandicum, Plagiothecium undulatum, Dicranum scoparium and Ptilidium ciliare such as on Keldray Moor and parts of Lowick High Common. Elsewhere, for example on Gunson Height, Crag Height and …

Cors Cae'r Neuadd

…rtillus, pill sedge Carex pilulifera, the lichen Cladonia impexa and the mosses Hypnum jutlandicum and Pleurozium schreberi. The uncut mire surface is slightly drier and supports a wet heath community with abundant common cottongrass, the bog-mosses Sphagnum capillifolium, S. rec…

The Quantocks

…doratum, heath bedstraw Galium saxatile and the mosses Pleurozium schreberi and Hypnum jutlandicum. Acidic flushes have developed at the sources of many of the springs and alongside some of the streams. Species typical of this habitat include, bog pimpernel Anagallis tenella, ro…

Galboly

…idiadelphus triquetrus, capillary thread moss Bryum capillare, great plait moss Hypnum cupressiforme var. lacul1osum, broom fork moss Dicranum scoparium are also frequent within the sward. The topography around the Creariagh Burn, where the swards have developed on crushed chalk,…

Curran Bog

…a. The moss layer is well developed and is dominated by Sphagnum capillifolium, Hypnum jutlandicum and Polytrichum commune. The 'lawns' have a more scattered cover of dwarf shrubs with heather Calluna vulgaris and cross leaved heath Erica tetralix again abundant, growing over a m…

Mungrisdale Mires

…il cotton grass and some of the bog mosses are replaced by other mosses such as Hypnum jutlandicum and Pleurozium schreberi. The peat dome ends fairly abruptly at the south eastern end of White Moss, but it slopes down more gently towards the north west, merging into a mire commu…

Giant's Causeway and Dunseverick

… vulgaris, bell heather Erica cinerea. tormentil Potentilla erecta and the moss Hypnum jutlandicum with mountain everlasting Antennaria dioica frequent in places. spring squill Scilla verna is a common associate on thin soils. Wet heath is quite widespread in the area generally a…

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