Acting on information from Shropshire ecologist Dan Wrench, I had a walk up Novers Hills today to look for a new species of Bryophyte. Novers Hills is a wonderful botanical site, and one of the speciailities this site is the Strict Haircap (
Polytrichum strictum). This
moss is found on raised mires and wet heaths, with the area around the pools on Novers Hill providing the ideal habitat.
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| Strict Haircap (Polytrichum strictum) |
I had a search for other Bryophytes and was rewarded with another new species, Hair-pointed Grimmia (
Grimmia tricophylla).
This rather swarthy-looking species was found in a few small clumps on rocks on the northeast side of the hill.
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| Hair-pointed Grimmia (Grimmia trichophylla) |
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