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…ommunity with a high content of wavy hair-grass and the mosses juniper hair cap Polytrichum juniperinum and bristly hair cap Polytrichum piliferum.

Berner's Heath, Icklingham

…over the ground; sheep’s sorrel Rumex acetosella is abundant and mosses such as Polytrichum juniperinum can carpet the ground. Where the heather is slightly older and is growing vigorously there may be very few other plants growing with it, apart from scattered nettles, creeping …

Old Bodney Camp

…ath with abundant Cladonia rangiformis and Peltigera hymenina, mosses including Polytrichum juniperinum and Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus and a number of calcifuge herbs such as sheep’s sorrel Rumex acetosella. Between the stripes are wider bands of acidic grassland dominated by fes…

Hurst Hill

…um saxatile, sheep's sorrel Rumex acetosella, the mosses Dicranum scoparium and Polytrichum juniperinum and the lichens Cladonia gracilis, Trapeliohsis uliginosa and Peltigera polydactyla. The weevil fauna recorded from the site includes Curculio rubidus, which is nationally unco…

Messingham Heath

…ulgaris and sand sedge Carex arenaria. Lichens are plentiful and, with the moss Polytrichum juniperinum, cover large areas. Messingham Heath is noted for the occurrence of the grayling butterfly. Other Information During the 1990 revision a small area of land was removed from th…

Hainton Sheepwalk

…an abundance of mosses, in particular Dicranum scoparium, Pleurozium schreberi, Polytrichum juniperinum and Pseudoscleropodium purum. Scattered gorse scrub Ulex europaeus on the slopes adds to the diversity of habitat. At the foot of the slopes is a small area of marsh dominated …

Holton and Sandford Heaths

…bird’s-foot Ornithopus perpusillus, cat’s-ear Hypochaeris radicata and the moss Polytrichum juniperinum. In slightly wetter areas the composition of the grassland changes. Other grasses such as the bristle bent and purple moor-grass become common with pill sedge Carex pilulifera …

Stoke Common

…ourages the proliferation of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha and the mosses Polytrichum juniperinum and P. commune, the last two persisting for several years. Gorse, aspen, alder buckthorn Frangula alnus and birch form dense thickets, the last, as well as Scot's pine, occurri…

Robbinetts

…anicea is frequent. Mosses such as Dicranum scoparium, Hypnum cupressiforme and Polytrichum juniperinum are locally abundant as is the lichen Cladonia rangiformis. In some areas, the swards are rather more neutral and more fertile. Here crested dog's tail Cynosurus cristatus, coc…

Piddles Wood

…s Holcus mollis are very frequent and typical mosses are Dicranum scoparium and Polytrichum juniperinum. In open areas, bracken Pteridium aquilinum is often dominant. Piddles Wood supports a rich insect fauna. The open glades and rides favour many of the typical woodland butterfl…

Knock Dhu Sallagh Braes

…a tamarisci, cypress leaved plait moss Hypnum cupressiforme and juniper haircap Polytrichum juniperinum. On wetter, more flushed soils lesser clubmoss Selaginella selaginoides is common. As the soils deepen further down the slopes the influence of the base-rich elements within th…

Hurcott Pasture

…of the sward. Lower plants also are a particular feature and include the mosses Polytrichum juniperinum, Ceratodon purpureus, Brachythecium albicans and lichens Cladonia spp. A number of locally uncommon or rare species occur including field mouse ear Cerastium arvense, little mo…

Sinah Common

…eep’s fescue and the lichens Cladonia portentosa and C. foliacea and the mosses Polytrichum juniperinum, Dicranum scoparium and Hypnum cupressiforme var. lacunosum. Sinah Common supports brackish communities overlying wet sand, on the site of old mineral workings. This saltmarsh…

Maulden Heath

…inant element of the short grassland. The common species Dicranum scoparium and Polytrichum juniperinum are characteristic of acidic situations. The depressions between each ridge support a more luxuriant sward with species of a neutral grassland type such as cock’s foot Dactylis…

Besthorpe Warren

… chlorophaea and C. arbuscula, together with mosses such as Dicranum scoparium, Polytrichum juniperinum and Ceratodon purpureus. These communities grade into coarser, lightly grazed vegetation characterized by grasses such as wavy hair grass Deschampsia flexuosa and Yorkshire fog…

Morden Bog and Hyde Heath

…irrel-tail fescue Vulpia bromoides, cat’s-ear Hypochaeris radicata and the moss Polytrichum juniperinum on free-draining sandy soil. Two occasional species present are the nationally scarce clustered clover Trifolium glomeratum and the local bird’s-foot clover Trifolium ornithopo…

Mallerstang-Swaledale Head

…Where erosion is most extreme, as at Lodge Haggs, species such as the hair moss Polytrichum juniperinum recolonises bare mineral substrates. Areas of thin peat or mineral soil where grazing has been light support dry heath vegetation dominated by heather, bilberry Vaccinium myrti…

Silverines Meadows

…kets of soil which support early hair grass Aira praecox and the calcifuge moss Polytrichum juniperinum. The flushes and marshy areas are dominated by soft, jointed and blunt flowered rushes Juncus effusus, J. articulatus and Juncus subnodulosus, in association with abundant mead…

Wilsford & Rauceby Warrens

…s an abundance of Caledonia species of lichen and local dominance of the mosses Polytrichum juniperinum and Dicranum scoparium. A different habitat is afforded by areas of gorse Ulex europaeus, broom Cytisus scoparius and willow Salix spp. scrub whilst the stream bisecting the si…

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