Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium)



Elf Cup Sp



Dilated Scalewort (Frullenia dilatata)







Town Hall Clock (Adoxa moschatellina)



A Hawthorn (Craetagus monogyna) growing through a SIlver Birch (Betulus Sp)







Lateral Cryphaea (Cryphea heteromalla)

A moss with shoot dimorphism.
The primary stem laying adpressed to the bark of a tree but the fruiting shoots projecting stiffly away from the bark.







Minute pouncewort (Myriocoleopsis minutissima)





Enchnanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) broad basal leaves.







A splendid happy patterned partnership of Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata) {brown} and Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)



This time fading into a Lichen Sp as well





The unmistakeable lime green of Bird's-claw beard-moss (Barbula unguiculata)



Dry, tightly rolled Hornschuch's Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium horschuchianum)







Probably Nostoc (Cyanobacteria) rather than a Lichen.

Troll's butter, spit of moon, fallen star, witch's jelly being among the panoply of names from Wikipedia.

The name going all the way back to Paracelsus 1493-1541

A combination of of the English 'nostril' and German "Nasenloch"

In other words

Snot Like









Mature sporophytes



Overleaf Pellia (Pellia epiphylla)

Monoicious - Male & female organs on the same thallus.





Even Scalewort (Radula complanata) with gemmae on the leaf margins.





Forked Scalewort (Metzgeria furcata)

A dioecious species











A well colonised & spectacular rootplate



A stump engulfed.





Wet woodland



Willow Moss (Fontanalis antipyretica)



Large mouse-tail Moss (Isothecium alopecuroides)

Tags: Opposite-leavedGoldenSaxifrage, ElfCupSp, DilatedScalewort, TownHallClock, Nostoc, LateralCryphaea, MinutePouncewort, ForkedVeilwort, Bird's-clawBeard-moss, Hornschuch'sBeard-moss, CollemaSp, Landscape, EvenScalewort, OverleafPellia

Fringed Heartwort (Ricciarpos natans) just surfaced from the winter underwater world.

Tiny hearts spreading across the surface of the pingo.

A complete lack of the purple ventral scales seen in the images below from last June. Clear new out growths seen on the floating bodies, which can be seen in the above image.

Slightly more clearly in the enlarged images here.





Fringed Heartwort (Ricciocarpos natans) June 23









Willow-moss (Fotanalis antipyretica)







Fruiting Hornshuch's Beard-moss (Pseudocrossidium hornschuchianum)







Bog Groove-moss (Aulucomnium palustre)









Lustrous Bog-moss (Sphagnum subnitens)_





A small liverwort tucked away in amongst the Sphagnum.



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Liverwort Sp

After much dissection & measuring this was determined to be

Common Pouchwort (Calypogeia fissa)







Great Scented Liverwort/Snakewort (Conocephalum Sp) with new growth.



Fissidens Sp growing on stone.



Marble Screw-moss (Syntrichia papillosa)

Tags: Landscape, WillowMoss, Hornschuch'sBeard-moss, LustrousBog-moss, GreatScentedLiverwort/Snakewort