Mappp.co geology and wildlife sites

Morrone Birkwood

…ich in dwarf shrubs and has an unusual variety of herbs including stone bramble Rubus saxatilis, globeflower Trollius europaeus, nodding mellick Melica nutans, the rare intermediate wintergreen Pyrola media, and the rare twinflower Linnaea borealis. In places, particularly on the…

Moorhouse and Cross Fell

…w. Some areas also have stands of cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus, the latter being particularly common on Burnhope Seat. As with other areas of the Pennines there are large areas of blanket bog dominated by either pure or mixed stands of hare's t…

Simonside Hills

…th heather and hares tail cotton grass Eriophorum vaginatum in which cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus occurs sparingly. Shallow basins which collect water draining from the surrounding land are characterised by carpets of bog mosses Sphagnum papillosum, Sphagnum magellanicum, S. capi…

South Pennine Moors

…eather moors including bilberry, crowberry and the locally uncommon cloud berry Rubus chamaemorus. The large areas of acid grassland on former heathland reflect patterns of heavy grazing and burning. These grasslands are dominated by mat grass Nardus stricta and wavy hair grass D…

Ben Chonzie

…e range of moorland communities including blanket mire with abundant cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus, heather moorland, montane heaths and acidic grasslands. Both acidic and calcareous flushes occur in places. Herb-rich grasslands occur beneath the species-rich cliffs. The rare plan…

Craigengar

…wberry Empetrum nigrum are all intermixed with the dominant heather. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus is widespread on the summit. The heather growth is healthy and shows little evidence of degradation or invasion by grass communities. The abundance of cloudberry and dwarf shrubs is …

Carn a' Mhadaidh

… locally dominated by heather, blaeberry, crowberry Empetrum nigrum, cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus and bearberry Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. The latter is seldom found in open birch woodland and is a special feature of this site. In the humid conditions between the boulders, the vege…

Inverpolly

…pp, Sphagnum mosses and Cladonia lichens are characteristic species. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus can be found in higher parts of the site. Upland birch woodland Birch-dominated woodland is spread widely across the site, including on some of the offshore islands. Downy and pendul…

West Nidderdale, Barden and Blubberhouses Moors

…um nigrum, common cotton grass Eriophorum angustifolium and heather. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus is locally abundant on Henstone Band Side and Thorpe Fell. In locally wetter blanket mire or areas of wet heath or valley mire, the richest bog vegetation persists and supports cranb…

Upper Teesdale

…with some Sphagnum fuscum, Sphagnum imbricatum and S. capillifolium. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus is locally abundant and dwarf birch Betula nana occurs here at its most southerly British locality. Bog moss lawns and acid flushes at the margins of the blanket bog have marsh saxif…

Moorfoot Hills

…cies) field layer. Hare’s tail cotton grass Eriophorum vaginatum and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus are abundant. Lichen-rich variants of this vegetation type are also present. There are extensive areas where Sphagnum cover is almost total and pool systems are well developed locall…

Pen-y-ghent

…rimarily as a grouse moor, heather Calluna vulgaris is dominant with cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus and crowberry Empetrum nigrum. By contrast in areas of increased grazing pressure, hare’s tail cotton grass Eriophorum vaginatum predominates. Near Churn Milk Hole, there is a valley…

The Cheviot

… bog also supports the rare bog bilberry Vaccinium uliginosum whilst cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus is widespread and locally abundant. At the Bizzle and Hen Hole outcrops of base rich rock within cliffs of predominantly acidic rock give rise to a contrasting association of plants…

Bowes Moor

…n grass, crowberry Empetrum nigrum, bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus. cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea occurs sparsely within this vegetation. Vegetation dominated by soft rush Juncus effusus, hair moss Polytrichum commune and a bog moss Sphagnum falla…

Skiddaw Group

…on cotton grass Eriophorum angustifolium and cross leaved heath. The cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus is a rare species in Lakeland and its presence in the higher areas of blanket bog within this site demonstrates an affinity with the more eastern examples of this habitat on the Penn…

Tweedsmuir Hills

…re’s-tail cottongrass Eriophorum vaginatum and heather with abundant cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus at some locations. Below the main ridge on Glenstivon Dod and other subsidiary summits, alpine heath occurs as dwarfed wind-clipped mats of heather with abundant lichens. Such heaths…

Appleby Fells

…ew. In parts the blanket mire is also rich in dwarf shrubs with much cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus and cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea. Around certain of the hill tops and on parts of the steep Pennine escarpment calcareous grasslands have developed around outcrops of Carboniferou…

Leek Moors

… blanket bogs but without parallel elsewhere in the British uplands. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus occurs sparsely on Oliver Hill, here at the south eastern limit of its British range. Parts of Axe Edge plateau are occupied by blanket mire dominated by hare's tail cotton grass wit…

Ben Hutig

…y, with wild azalea Kalmia procumbens, crowberry Empetrum nigrum and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus. The occurrence of this habitat at much lower altitude than elsewhere in Scotland is unusual and results from the northerly latitude and exposure of the site to the sea.

Berwyn

…ass Trichophorum cespitosum and woolly moss Racomitrium lanuginosum, cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus is locally frequent here, at its southernmost point in Britain, together with lesser twayblade Neottia cordata a scarce species in Southern Britain. Dwarf shrub heath dominated by h…

North York Moors

…uch as bog asphodel Narthecium ossifragum, bog mosses Sphagnum spp., cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus and bog rosemary Andromeda polifolia. The latter two species are found only on the raised bog at May Moss. Moorland edge Much of the moorland edge is dominated by bracken Pteridium …

Balglass Corries

…common heather Calluna vulgaris, bog cotton Eriophorum vaginatum and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus predominate. Peatland plant communities of this type are rare in Central Scotland, as a result of changes in land use and management practices, and Balglass Corries represents the on…

Bowland Fells

…pecies, cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos, crowberry Empetrum nigrum and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus are all widely distributed. Some areas of bog have been more heavily burnt and this, perhaps coupled with greater numbers of grazing sheep, has resulted in the loss of heather to giv…

Lovely Seat - Stainton Moor

…asphodel Narthecium ossifragum and lesser twayblade Neottia cordata. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus occurs locally in the central and western parts of the site. On the slopes and particularly on the eastern portion of the site, the vegetation is predominantly heathland. The area be…

Kielderhead Moors: Carter Fell to Peel Fell

…natum, heather with much crowberry Empetrum nigrum, locally abundant cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus and deer sedge Trichophorum cespitosum. Reduction of burning and grazing since the 1960’s has enabled a good bog moss Sphagnum cover to re-establish with hummock-hollow micro-topogra…

Hexhamshire Moors

…d cover of bog mosses particularly Sphagnum papillosum and, locally, cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus. Many acidic flushes drain the moorland plateau. These are generally species poor and dominated by soft rush Juncus effusus with a bog moss, Sphagnum fallax and star moss Polytrichu…

Mallerstang-Swaledale Head

…y dominate where burning has been carried out to promote its growth. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus also occurs widely. Where the peat is sufficiently wet the richest bog vegetation persists, species present include cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos, bog asphodel Narthecium ossifragum,…

Shiel Dod

… the blanket bog is notable for the occurrence of extensive areas of cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus. Above 450 metres the vegetation displays montane affinities, as indicated by the presence of viviparous sheep’s-fescue Festuca vivipara, alpine meadow-rue Thalictrum alpinum, alpine…

Caudbeck Flow

…ndew Drosera rotundifolia, common butterwort Pinguicula vulgaris and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus. Acidic flushes occur on the margins of the mire and are related to lateral seepage of water and nutrients. Most are species poor and dominated by soft rush, common sedge Carex nigra…

Geltsdale & Glendue Fells

… species, cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea, cranberry V. oxycoccus and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus are locally abundant. On better drained ground there are areas of dry heather moor and acidic grassland and, where the thin bands of limestone outcrop, there are some small patches o…

Kielder Mires

…less common and species such as lesser twayblade Neottia cordata and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus which are not found on the lower sites increase in abundance. A small number of the sites support vegetation communities which are influenced by mineral rich flushing or seepage in a…

Bochel Wood

…oss-leaved heath Erica tetralix, bog asphodel Narthecium ossifragum, cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus and bog mosses.

Dark Peak

…ly no more than thinly scattered, cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus, an arctic alpine species at the south eastern limits of its British distribution. Cloudberry is locally frequent beneath heather, for example on Cloudberry Moor and amongst cotton g…

Lune Forest

…s. On the highest ground to the west, other dwarf shrubs, including cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus and crowberry Empetrum nigrum, become more frequent. Where past grazing pressure has been severe, the blanket mire communities have been degraded and heather is suppressed or absent,…

Shap Fells

…etralix, bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus and crowberry Empetrum nigrum. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus occurs sparingly in the higher areas of bog and the nationally rare bog rosemary Andromeda polifolia grows in the saddle mire above Longfell Gill. An abrupt change in vegetation con…

Morven and Scaraben

…inated by heather, bilberry, the bog-moss Sphagnum capillifolium and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus. The bilberry-cloudberry heaths are especially well-developed on steep north-facing slopes where stiff sedge Carex bigelowii, and mosses such as Rhytidiadelphus loreus, Plagiothecium…

Cotherstone Moor

…er, in which hare’s tail cotton grass, crowberry Empetrum nigrum and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus occur over a well developed moss layer. Better drained soils, particularly to the east of the How Beck support heather dominated communities which at 220 metres extend to their lowes…

Butterburn Flow

…um and white beak sedge Rhynchospora alba accompanying bog rosemary. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus occurs at an unusually low altitude for England. Seven species of wader are known to breed on the Flow together with other moorland species.

Eastern Peak District Moors

…ophorum cespitosum, sundew Drosera rotundifolia and on Hallam Moors, cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus, an arctic alpine species at the south eastern limits of its British distribution. There are old records of bog rosemary Andromeda polifolia, a local rarity. In common with other Pe…

Bollihope, Pikestone, Eggleston and Woodland Fells

…tum is dominant, with cross leaved heath Erica tetralix and heather. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus which is confined to the west of the county and altitudes over 450 metres is locally abundant on the plateau between Snowhope and Outberry Plain. Throughout the area species poor fl…

Arkengarthdale, Gunnerside and Reeth Moors

…owberry Empetrum nigrum, cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea and heather. Cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus is a frequent component of the blanket bog and is particularly abundant on Gunnerside Moor. In locally wetter blanket mire or areas of wet heath or valley mire, the richest bog vege…

Ladder Hills

… suecica, northern bilberry Vaccinium uliginosum and an abundance of cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus. The Orkney notchwort Anastrepta orcadensis, a liverwort more closely associated with western Scotland and uncommon in the north-east, is also found. Alpine heath The summits are dom…

Kielderhead and Emblehope Moors

…Eriophorum vaginatum in which deer grass Trichophorum cespitosum and cloudberry Rubus chamaemorus are locally common. These bogs give way on steep slopes to heather moor, including the damp facies with bog mosses Sphagnum spp. and lesser twayblade Neottia cordata and on the gentl…

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