Trichostomum crispulum Curly Crisp-moss

A yellow-green, dioicous, acrocarpous moss which forms compact cushions and mounds on base rich soils, rocks, walls, open mosaic habitats and dunes. It often forms extensive colonies along gravelled tracks and in quarries. Moist plants have distinctive hooded leaves that become crispy and curled when dry. It has a scattered western and northern distribution in Britain, absent from much of central and eastern England but widespread in the lowlands of Wales. It is frequent along the coast in West Glamorgan and common at the edges of forest tracks in Neath Port Tabot, especially those that have been dressed with calcareous gravel. Sporophyte capsules are rare