Tuesday 8 June 2021

Settle Wildflowers - Day 115 - and Day 8 - 30 Days Wild - Winskill Stones - Mountain Everlasting / Cat's-ear and Hairy Rockcress

Todays walk on 30 Days Wild led me to some of the lovely flowers you can find at Plantlife's Winskill Stones Reserve, near Langcliffe
New ones on this walk: (that I missed last year)
 Mountain Everlasting / Cat's-ear 
Hairy Rockcress
Rowan
Marsh Foxtail 
THis is growing in the dip near where the road floods

Note- the Hawthorn flowers (lower tree) are still in bud.
Caloplaca cirrochroa one of my favourite lichens
Caloplacca cirrochroa - like a gold gem  has bright deep orange minute long  narrow (to 0.5 mm wide)  radiating  separated, convex lobes. The tips of the lobes look white because they are pruinose. Bright lemon yellow circular convex soralia present on the lobes sparkle against the deep orange.
St George's Mushroom
Mossy saxifrage

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