The fantastic Afon Wysg ,lovely habitat ,i always love searching the Upper Usk ,19.7.26 🏴
Jamie Warren
@mossmalarkey.bsky.social
Lively, Loony ,happy bin man for SDC and Ubico in Stroud Gloucestershire,interested in Botany,Bryology,Mycology and general nature lover 🌿🌼🐛🐝🐿🦌
Calliergon giganteum (Giant Spear-moss) growing on the edge of the afon Wysg 19.7.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Marchantia polymorpha subsp.Polymorpha (star-headed Liverwort) growing on the edge of the afon wysyg 19.7.26 ,love that broad conspicuous black midrib 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Haplomitrium hookeri (Hooker's Flapwort) growing on the edge of the afon Wysg 19.7.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
I have visited Century bank on the river Tees in the Pennines a few times and have also visited this bank on the Afon Wysg three times , i have named in Blasia bank as it is absolutly covered in it from end to end , Blaisia pusilla (Common Kettlewort) at its best 19.7.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Fossombronia incurva (Weedy Frillwort) growing on a bare soil patch on the edge of the Afon Wysg (River Usk) 19.7.26 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Isoetes lacustris (Lake Quillwort) in the shallows of Llyn fan fawr lake in the Breacons 18.7.26 🏴
Llyn fan fawr lake and some old red sandstone Crags above , Black mountain finery indeed 18.7.26 🏴
The Nant-y-Llyn in the Breacons 18.7.26 , accending up to its source of Llyn fan fawr lake 🏴
The lovely Nant-y-Llyn a beuty of an upland river ,with its terriced small falls ,definetly worth a return to see them with there waterlevels alot higher 🏴
Hieracium reticulatiforme (Reticulate-leaved Hawkweed) a native british endemic scattered over scottland and pushing south into yorkshire ,here it is at its most southerley and only welsh locality ,on the top of a small watetfall on the Nant-y-Llyn 18.7.26 ,a beuty of a section foliosa species 🏴
Hieracium tavense (Black mountain Hawkweed) a rare welsh endemic ,restricted to the Nant-y-Llyn a small upland river in the upper Tawe valley , found by Augustine Ley in 1899,it is only known from an unstable cliff on the North side of small waterfall and that is its wourld population 18.7.26🏴
Hieracium prenanthoides (Rouh-leaved Hawkweed) only two sites for Wales for this species, Craig Cwm Ddu that i will visit next weekend and here pictured on Tarron yr Esgob,i found it on Tarron in its known locality,just a handfull of plants, but also discovered a new unknown locality of 30+ plants 🏴
Ptychomitrium polyphyllum (Greater Pincushion) growing on a boulder top on Tarron yr Esgob 5.7.26 , the long straight Peristome teeth looking good @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Tetrodontium brownianum (Brown's Four-tooth Moss) growing on an old red Sandstone Crag on Tarron yr Esgob 5.7.26 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Isopterygiopsis pulchella (Neat Silk-moss) growing on the red sandstone crags on Tarron yr Esgob 5.7.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Orthothecium intricatum (Fine-leaved Leskea) in big amounts under Overhangs on the red sandstone Crags on Tarron yr Esgob last weekend ,splended matts of it ,i usualy only see it in Crevices is smaller amounts ,nice 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Rhabdoweisia fugax (Dwarf Streak-moss) growing on the red sandstone Crags on Tarron yr Esgob in the Black mountains 5.7.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Some of the old red sandstone Crags on Tarron yr Esgob in the Black mountains in wales last weekend , fantastic habitat 🏴
The huge fallen tufa block below the impresive petrifying tufa spring in the middle of the expanse of the Tarrin Yr Esgob escarpment in the Black Mountains last weekend , spleded habitat🏴
A visit last weekend to the Magnificent Tarron yr Esgob ,a four kilometer long red sandstone Escarpment in the Llanthoney valley in the Black Mountains in wales , 8 hours saterday & 10 hours sunday searching this steep and rugged habitat for its bryophite assemblage 🏴
Scapania gracilis (Western Earwort) on Craig Buarth-glas in North wales , a common liverwort of humid sites in the west and North 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Racomitrium aquaticum (Narrow-leaved Fringe-moss) growing on a periodicaly irigated vertical crag on CraigBuarth-glas in north wales a few weeks ago ,love those Peristome teeth in the first pic 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Barbilophozia floerkei (Common Pawwort) on the Crags of Craig-Buarth glas a huge crag high above the A470 a couple of mile west of Dinas Mawdwy in North wales 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Riccia subbifurca (Least Crystalwort) growing on bare soil patches amongst sloping slabby crags on Craig Cywarch 12.6.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Lophozia sudetica (Hill Notchwort) growing amongst block scree on Craig Cywarch 11.6.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Plagiochila porelloides (Lesser Featherwort) growingbon rocjs and boulders in a small stream on tge lower slopes of Craig Cywarch in North wales 12.6.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Amphidium mougeotii (Mougeot's Yoke-moss) on a Crag on the lower wooded slopes of Craig Cywarch 12.6.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Riccardia chamedryfolia (Jagged Germanderwort) growing on a small wooded stream on the lower slopes of Craig Cywarch in North wales 12.6.26 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social
A nice patch of Herbertus aduncus subsp. hutchinsiae (Juniper Prongwort) on Craig Cywarch 12.6.26 ,the only patch i came across ,still good tp see it another north wales site 🏴 @bbsbryology.bsky.social