Happy World Environment Day (5 June)
At 5.30pm I thought "I'll just nip up (via car) and see if I can find those Bird's-eye primrose plants whose leaves I had noticed a year and a half ago". I did - After a detour collecting mosses and photographing a few lichens.. by 8 pm.. and then I spent ages trying to get a half decent photo. they are just not easy to photograph.
They were growing in "M10" vegetation .. So here are some species growing with them
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| Butterwort |
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| Red clover |
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| Quaking grass |
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| Lesser Club Moss - Selaginella selaginoides |
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| A young Cotton-grass |
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| I can't work out what this orange stuff is. The white is calcium carbonate deposit. The orange might be a Trentepohlia alga or it might be a fungus |
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| Mat Grass - Nardus stricta |
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| They are just delightful. |
So glad this area has not been "improved" with ordinary "farm yard grass", cow parsley etc.
Tomorrow I am going to help at Embsay churchyard (Churches count on nature"- so must go to bed now.
Thank you everyone doing 30 Days Wild for encouraging me to go out this evening.
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