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Calliergon cordifolium Heart-leaved Spear-moss

(Hedw.) Kindb.

A dioicous, pleurocarpous moss of swampy habitats including dune slacks and wet, flushed grassland. It is tolerant of shade and is a frequent member of swampy alder-willow carr and other wet places where there is a lot of decaying plant matter. It has a scattered distribution in West Glamorgan and is frequent in the wet alder woodlands of Oxwich Marsh and Crymlyn Fen and in similar places near the Tennant and Neath canals.

Calliergon cordifolium - © Barry Stewart
Calliergon cordifolium - © Barry Stewart

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