Mappp.co geology and wildlife sites

Hesley Moss

…the wetter areas, which predominate over the mire sustain carpets of bog mosses Sphagnum spp. beneath canopies of bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus and cross leaved heath. Bog asphodel Narthecium ossifragum and sundew Drosera rotundifolia occur throughout the area. Pools and moss carp…

Tonnagh Beg Bog

…pitosum and swards of bog asphodel Narthecium ossifragum in the wetter runnels. Sphagnum mosses carpet the surface of the bog and are dominated by a range of species, including Sphagnum capillifolium, Sphagnum subnitens, Sphagnum magellanicum, Sphagnum papillosum and Sphagnum ten…

Perchhall Loch

…rrounding this is another floating community dominated by a range of bog mosses Sphagnum spp, including Sphagnum squarrosum, Sphagnum recurvum and Sphagnum palustre with hummocks of Sphagnum papillosum, Sphagnum subnitens and the uncommon Sphagnum teres. Bottle sedge Carex rostra…

Glennasheevar

…buted in a concentric ring. The pools support a characteristic growth ofaquatic Sphagnum mosses, with frequent stands of bogbean Menyanthes trifoliata and occasional lesser bladderwort Utricularia minor in the deeper pools. Well-developed Sphagnum capillifolium hummocks are promi…

Rhos Goch (Rhos Goch Common)

…ommunities are present. The first is characterised by carpets of the bog-mosses Sphagnum auriculatum and Sphagnum cuspidatum, along with frequent common cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium, round-leaved sundew Drosera rotundifolia and cross-leaved heath Erica tetralix. The bog-m…

Drumlougher Lough

…ite sedge Carex curta and common sedge Carex nigra occur over a dense carpet of Sphagnum palustre, Sphagnum squarrosum, Sphagnum recurvum and Sphagnum subnitens, with frequent bogbean Menyanthes trifoliata. The wide range of other semi-natural habitats provides further structural…

Belmore Mountain

…anse at Gortgall in the east. The bog vegetation is characterised by bog mosses Sphagnum spp. and hypnoid mosses, ericoid dwarf-shrubs and other associated species, with the composition and abundance of these components dependent on local edaphic conditions. Flat, water-logged gr…

Foulshaw Moss

…f raised bogs known as the cross leaved heath bog moss community Erica tetralix Sphagnum papillosum community, although the balance of the species has been modified by the drier peats of the moss. Ling Calluna vulgaris and bog myrtle Myrica galeform a shrubby canopy amongst abund…

Blaeberry Island Bog

…nd shallow pools supporting a diverse cover of vegetation, including bog mosses Sphagnum spp. and ericoid dwarf-shrubs. Active bog vegetation is characterised by heather Calluna vulgaris, cross leaved heath Erica tetralix, common cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium, hare's tail …

Knock Dhu Sallagh Braes

…d park yoke moss Zygodon rupestris. A small population of Girgensohn’s bog moss Sphagnum girgensohnii, which has a scattered and rare distribution in upland parts of Ireland, is also found on Knock Dhu. Further topographical diversity is provided through several large gullies on …

Heysham Moss

…og rosemary Andromeda polifolia is also present. The characteristic bog mosses, Sphagnum sp., found on the site include S. recurvum, Sphagnum papillosum, Sphagnum cuspidatum, S. subnitens, S. tenellum and Sphagnum magellanicum. At the northern end of the bog is an area of birch w…

Wolf Island Bog

…ol, hummock and lawn complexes. The intact bog surface supports a high cover of Sphagnum bog mosses, ericoid dwarf shrubs and other associated species. The composition and abundance of these depend upon local environmental conditions. The larger dome to the north of the area is d…

Fenn's, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses

…ent poor (oligotrophic) and acidic thus allowing species such as the bog mosses Sphagnum spp. to colonise it. The resulting peat bogs are the "mosses". In a few cases colonisation of the water surface by floating vegetation has resulted in the formation of a quaking bog known as …

Fenn's, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem & Cadney Mosses

…rient poor oligotrophic and acidic thus allowing species such as the bog mosses Sphagnum spp. to colonise it. The resulting peat bogs are the 'mosses'. In a few cases colonisation of the water surface by floating vegetation has resulted in the formation of a quaking bog known as …

Ballynahone Bog

…wn complexes. The bog vegetation is characterised by a high percentage cover of Sphagnum mosses, ericoid dwarf-shrubs and other associated species, with the composition and abundance of these components dependent on local edaphic conditions. Flat, water-logged 'lawns' alongside p…

Black Lough (Tyrone)

…yophyte cover is high and is dominated by species such as blunt-leaved bog-moss Sphagnum palustre, lustrous bog-moss Sphagnum subnitens and spiky bog moss Sphagnum squarrosum. On more elevated ground, the fen grades into wet heath which is dominated by heather Calluna vulgaris an…

Lough Alaban

… raft of acid fen, comprised of submergent growths of aquatic feathery bog moss Sphagnum cuspidatum and cow horn bog moss Sphagnum denticulatum with a sedge and herb component. This is interspersed by areas of open water with bog pondweed Potamogeton polygonifolius. Sedges associ…

Turmennan

…uspidatum and Calliergon cordifolium. In places where the water is more acidic, sphagnum bog-mosses such as Sphagnum squarrosum and Sphagnum subnitens replace the brown mosses. The central area at Turmennan consists of swamp dominated by common reed Phragmites australis, with ass…

Bradworthy Common

…the nationally scarce marsh fritillary butterfly Euphydryas aurinia. Bog mosses Sphagnum spp. are unusually abundant here, forming frequent hummocks with species such as Sphagnum subnitens, S. capillifolium and S. palustre. The area is also atypical in exhibiting an abundance of …

Drumcarn

…etum fluviatile, while others consist of star sedge Carex echinata growing over Sphagnum subnitens and Sphagnum auriculatum. In places, the fen grades into wet heath, with scattered heather Calluna vulgaris growing alongside such species as carnation sedge Carex panicea, sweet ve…

Greenan

…vulgaris. Within the swamp, there are floating mats dominated by mosses such as Sphagnum squarrosum, Sphagnum subnitens and Pseudoscleropodium purum. These support abundant grassy tussocks with a range of species, including creeping bent Agrostis stolonifera, velvet bent Agrostis…

Redlake Meadows & Hoggs Moor

…um ossifragum mire frequently occurs as a vegetational mosaic with bog-asphodel-sphagnum moss N. ossifragum – Sphagnum papillosum valley mire. These community types are dominated by purple moor-grass. In the north of the site purple moor-grass and black bog-rush form dense tusso…

Brendonmoor

…sented including Campylium stellatum, Leucobryum glaucum, Breutelia chrysocoma, Sphagnum auriculatum and Sphagnum subnitens. The discomycete eye-lash fungus Scutellinia scutellata is present. Drier localities support heather Calluna vulgaris, western gorse Ulex gallii and the loc…

Low Gill Moor Wetlands

…and bird's eye primrose Primula farinosa. Also of note are mounds of bog mosses Sphagnum spp. especially of Sphagnum subnitens which rise above the calcareous ground water producing isolated acidic conditions and which support dwarf shrub species, round leaved sundew Drosera rotu…

Prolusk

…heath, with species such as golden head moss Breutelia chrysocoma, red bog moss Sphagnum capillifolium, compact bog moss Sphagnum compactum, lustrous bog-moss Sphagnum subnitens, heath plait moss Hypnum jutlandicum and glittering wood moss Hylocomium splendens all frequent. Other…

Shaw Meadow & Sea Pasture

…tus, J. inflexus with carnation and glaucous sedges over a carpet of bog mosses Sphagnum species, including Sphagnum fallax, S. subnitens, S. palustre, S. papillosum and S. auriculatum. A range of herbs and grasses are associated with the above species and include devil's bit sca…

Ludderburn and Candlestick Mires

… high number of plant species on the site that includes 15 species of bog moss, Sphagnum spp.. A particular feature of the site is the inter-relationship between types of mire and the subtle differences in plant species characterisitic of each. Some drainage work has been carried…

Poors Common

…keria lucens, Calliergonell cuspidatum, Kindbergia praelonga and the bog mosses Sphagnum squarrosum, S. subsecundum var inundatum and S. capillifolium. The trees themselves support a varied lichen flora including species strongly indicative of a long history of continuity of old …

Roudsea Wood & Mosses

…remota and narrow buckler fern Dryopteris carthusiana occur with the bog mosses Sphagnum palustre and S. recurvum. Where the peat is more eutrophic, such as the area surrounding the small Roudsea Tarn, the vegetation is more typical of fen and occurs below a canopy which includes…

Danes Moss

…rient poor oligotrophic and acidic thus allowing species such as the bog mosses Sphagnum spp. to colonise it. The resulting peat bogs are the mosses. Danes Moss which lies three kilometres south of Macclesfield is the largest example in Cheshire of a cut over raised mire and its …

Cors Cae'r Neuadd

…ty characterised by an abundance of bottle sedge Carex rostrata, the bog-mosses Sphagnum cuspidatum, S. palustre, S. recurvum and S. subnitens, common cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium, sharp-flowered rush Juncus acutiflorus and marsh cinquefoil Comarum palustre, with frequent…

Montiaghs Moss

…orum angustifolium and bog asphodel Narthecium ossifragum are normally present. Sphagnum bog-moss cover is generally low, although Sphagnum subnitens is locally abundant. The peat drains and trenches support a number of nationally rare and localised vascular plant species, includ…

Hollin Hill

…orpidium revolvens and Palustriella commutatum, as well as hummocks of bog moss Sphagnum subnitens and S. warnstorfii which rise above the influence of the base rich waters. These Sphagnum hummocks support flowering plants more typically associated with acidic or base poor condit…

Cernydd Carmel

…ool and hummock’ topography, with pools supporting floating carpets of the moss Sphagnum cuspidatum and the hummocks supporting a variety of other mosses such as Sphagnum papillosum, S. subnitens and localised occurrences of S. tenellum. White-beak sedge Rhynchospora alba and the…

Southey and Gotleigh Moors

… away from the springs it spreads into channels which intersect low hummocks of Sphagnum papillosum. Dividing hollows contain Scorpidium revolvens, a moss very rare in Somerset. A very large population of white beak sedge Rhynchospora alba is dominated over much of this relativel…

Upper Thurne Broads and Marshes

…oped. Here the vegetation is characterised by carpets of bog mosses principally Sphagnum fimbriatum and S. palustre under a canopy of downy birch Betula pubescens. Round leaved wintergreen Pyrola rotundifolia occurs sporadically and large populations of the rare crested buckler f…

Whiddon Moor, Luckroft and Odham Marshes

…ts including heather Calluna vulgaris, western Gorse Ulex gallii and bog mosses Sphagnum subnitens and S. auriculatum occur predominantly in the wet heath, while greater bird's foot trefoil Lotus pedunculatus, flea sedge Carex pulicaris and tawny sedge Carex hostiana are to be fo…

Cors Llyferin

…limosa are present; fen bryophytes, e.g. Scorpidium scorpioides and tussocks of Sphagnum subnitens, are important structural components of the vegetation, and aquatic species, e.g. bladderwort Utricularia vulgaris agg, occur in places. Fen meadow communities with a variable speci…

Pinbain Burn to Cairn Hill

…nyanthes trifoliata, and bog pondweed Potamogeton polygonifolius, with the moss Sphagnum subnitens and stonewort Chara globularis. Dry acid grassland of fescues Festuca spp., bents Agrostis spp. and wavy hair-grass Deschampsia flexuosa, with dry heath of heather and bell heather …

Caeau Cefn Cribwr

…quent cross-leaved heath Erica tetralix, saw-wort Serratula tinctoria, bog-moss Sphagnum subnitens and flea-sedge Carex pulicaris. The rest of the marshy grassland is dominated by rushes. Swards on particularly wet ground close to the base-rich springs in the south-west of the si…

Cautley Thwaite Meadows and Ecker Secker Beck

…ncluding Palustriella commutatum, Ctenidium molluscum and Scorpidium revolvens. Sphagnum subnitens also grows here, forming hummocks above the influence of the base rich waters and therefore supporting species more typical of neutral or acidic grasslands such as marsh valerian, d…

Loughaveely

…l areas of more elevated cut-over bog remain, with heather Calluna vulgaris and sphagnum bog mosses being the main species. The open water to the west is surrounded by a number of different fen types. Around the western and southern edge of the pool there is a floating mat domina…

Caeau Heol y Llidiart-coch

…sumes a more heathy nature, with heather Calluna vulgaris and lustrous bog-moss Sphagnum subnitens. In part of the site, fen-meadow grades into base-rich flush vegetation around a small spring-head. The vegetation here is composed of a carpet of intermediate hook-moss Scorpidium …

Caeau Bryn Ifor

…. A wet area in this central field has a high cover of lesser cow-horn bog-moss Sphagnum inundatum and sharp-flowered rush Juncus acutiflorus. Marsh pennywort Hydrocotyle vulgaris is abundant here, and in some of the wet runnels. Rush-pasture occurs around the field margins. Thes…

Cors Gyfelog

…ton polygonifolius. Bog mosses are widespread across the site, with hummocks of Sphagnum papillosum, S. subnitens and S. fimbriatum and sometimes a sprawling layer of cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos. Lower, wetter lawns of S. auriculatum and Sphagnum contortum also occur. The natio…

Waen Rydd

…y a high frequency of hare’s-tail cottongrass Eriophorum vaginatum and bog moss Sphagnum recurvum amongst abundant purple moor-grass Molinia caerulea with cross-leaved heath Erica tetralix, heather Calluna vulgaris, bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus, common cottongrass Eriophorum angu…

Cae Blaen-dyffryn

…echinata and common yellow-sedge C. demissa over a carpet of bog mosses, mainly Sphagnum recurvum, S. subnitens and S. auriculatum.Several noteworthy plants are recorded at this site. Greater butterfly-orchid Platanthera chlorantha and lesser butterfly-orchid P. bifolia are prese…

Deptford Farm Pastures

… angustifolium, round-leaved sundew Drosera rotundifolia and various bog mosses Sphagnum auriculatum, S. subnitens and S. capillifolium. Other plants of interest include southern marsh-orchid Dactylorhiza praetermissa, lesser skullcap Scutellaria minor and saw wort Serratula tinc…

Paines Cross Meadow

…f the meadow. Around the spring head there are large hummocks of moss including Sphagnum palustre, S. subnitens and S. papillosum. The peaty soil here supports several other species of flowering plants which are uncommon in East Sussex including cotton grass Eriophorum angustifol…

Black Snib

…angustifolium, hare's tail cotton grass Eriophorum vaginatum and the bog mosses Sphagnum papillosum, S. capillifolium and Sphagnum magellanicum. In all there are twenty one species of bog moss Sphagnum recorded, including the nationally scarce Sphagnum pulchrum. Other species pr…

Winster Wetlands

…water tracks and has given rise to a diverse area of swampy fen, with pools and Sphagnum bog moss islands and an adjacent Sphagnum lawn. These water tracks contain species such as the insectivorous bladderwort, Utricularia minor, marsh cinquefoil Comarum palustre, bogbean Menyant…

Thornhill Moss & Meadows

…otton grass E. latifolium, marsh arrowgrass Triglochin palustris and bog mosses Sphagnum palustre and S. subnitens. Sections at the northern end of the fen are richer in soil nutrients, being fed by more calcareous ground water. Here basic flushes support well developed brown mos…

Eycott Hill

…roundwater table. This diversity is reflected in the large number of bog mosses Sphagnum species recorded; fifteen in total. The higher, more acidic levels of deep peat support a bog vegetation dominated by ericaceous dwarf shrubs and bog mosses Sphagnum spp. Bog mosses, mainly S…

Burns Beck Moss

…a vulgaris are interspersed by wetter ones which have carpets of the bog mosses Sphagnum papillosum and S. subnitens. The wetter patches also contain other typical mire species such as sundew Drosera rotundifolia, marsh rosemary Andromeda polifolia, marsh arrowgrass Triglochin pa…

Pwll Lagoon

…e intimate proximity to alkaline areas and the low altitude, bog mosses such as Sphagnum fimbriatum and S. subnitens also grow here, though this has also been noted at other lowland fens. Reed bunting and sedge warbler breed in the reedswamp whilst locally noteworthy gatherings o…

Rhos Pant-tyle

… bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus, hair moss Polytrichum commune and the bog-mosses Sphagnum papillosum and S. subnitens. Elsewhere purple moor-grass remains dominant but the sward supports more grasses including sweet vernal-grass Anthoxanthum odoratum and velvet bent Agrostis canin…

Bryn-bwch

…dge, the mosses Polytrichum commune and Aulacomnium palustre and the bog mosses Sphagnum papillosum and S. subnitens. A small strip of mire at the northern end of the site is less heavily grazed. Here the purple moor grass forms dense tussocks and associated species include marsh…

Red Moss

…heathland and fen may also be found. Birch and willow scrub occur very locally. Sphagnum mosses and cotton grasses grow in waterlogged conditions amongst the purple moor grass in some of the wetter areas. The pattern of vegetation is determined by amongst other things the variati…

Wolborough Fen

… by birch Betula spp. and willow Salix spp. Bog mosses are frequent and include Sphagnum palustre, S. recurvum, S. subnitens, S. squarrosum and S. papillosum. Towards the top of the site an area of tussocky purple moor-grass Molinia caerulea occurs in which bog myrtle is frequent…

Ringdown

…ists largely of a mire community with a patchy bryophyte cover, particularly of Sphagnum palustre, S. papillosum, S. subnitens and Aulacomnium palustre. The most abundant grass is purple moor grass Molinia caerulea with sedges forming a significant part of the sward, the most fre…

Llwyn-iarth

… flushes are dominated by soft rush Juncus effusus and/or by bog mosses such as Sphagnum papillosum, S. capillifolium and S. auriculatum typically with a patchy cover of purple moor-grass, bog asphodel Narthecium ossifragum, common sedge Carex nigra, carnation sedge C. panicea, a…

Outley Mosses

…rly well displayed at Outley Mosses. Two of the communities, the bog asphodel – Sphagnum papillosum valley mire and the bottle sedge – Calliergonell cuspidatum mire, are nationally rare and their combination is not known outside southern Cumbria. Outley Mosses are more diverse an…

Fforest Goch Bog

…gustifolium and Eriophorum vaginatum. Bog mosses, principally cow horn bog-moss Sphagnum denticulatum and lustrous bog-moss S. subnitens form a patchy understorey here with typical bog liverworts well represented, including Cladopodiella fluitans and Kurzia pauciflora. Towards th…

Bolton Fell and Walton Mosses

…og Lowland raised bogs depend for their growth on an active layer of bog mosses Sphagnum species on the bog surface. These mosses are rainwater fed ombrotrophic and grow slowly upwards, with their remains forming the peat deposit. Over the centuries, the whole peat body grows and…

Astley & Bedford Mosses

…m with occasional deer grass Trichophorum cespitosum. Bog mosses are scarce but Sphagnum cuspidatum, S. recurvum, S. tenellum, S. fimbriatum and S. subnitens occur in patches in the cotton grass, between tussocks of purple moor grass Molinia caerulea or in and alongside some of t…

Frog Wood Bog

…The first is characterised by a flora with an abundance of bog mosses including Sphagnum palustre, S. recurvum, S. auriculatum, S. capillifolium and S. subnitens. These form a carpet and series of low hummocks with which are associated common cotton grass Eriophorum angustifolium…

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