Tuesday 28 May 2024

Settle Wildflowers 131: 26 May 2024: Mitchell Lane into SD8262 - Good King Henry, then climbing the hil plus lichensl

 Three new lichens for my SD 8262 monad on the grit wall (West facing side) as Mitchell lane ascends the gritstone just south of Settle:  (It's the same square as Brockhole/Watery Lane). Bringing the current total of lichens in that square to 40.

Lecanora polytropa

Geology: Pendle Grit:

Ochrolechia androgyna




Trapelia placodioides



Good Kink Henry Chenopodium bonus henricus in adjacent monad,
where I parked at the bottom of the hill by the entrance to the old reservoir








Oak seedling in pignut field.




Highest point of walk. Rock at the right of the picture with the white lichens is the one with the two lichens below




The passing place /gate entrance has Marsh Stitchwort in the ditch and a small patch of Bistort

Bistort




This is the most advanced Heath bedstraw I have seen yet with respect to flowering time. It is just coming out.
















Red Fescue grass has a tubular sheath


Bramble in flower


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