Racomitrium fasciculare Green Mountain Fringe-moss

A yellow-green, dioicous acrocarpous moss which grows on exposed siliceous or igneous rocks, boulders and scree, often on isolated outcrops or dry stone walls on moorland in the uplands. The sprawling colonies are made up of shoots with short branches which occur in charcateristic bunches. The long, tapering leaves don't have hair points. It has a widespread western and northern distribution in Britain and it is common in the uplands of Wales. In West Glamorgan it is frequent on the higher ground of the South Wales Coalfield in Neath Port Talbot but it is absent from Gower. Sporophyte capsules are common in spring.