Sausage beard-moss  (Didymodon tomaculosus)

Range

This species is found in the UK, Ireland, and recently in Germany. In the UK, it has been recorded in Derbyshire, North and West Yorkshire and in 2002 it was found in Shropshire. In Ireland it is recorded in counties Offaly and Kildare and, also in 2002, it was discovered in Co. Dublin.

Habitat

Most of the records for this moss have been from arable fields on neutral clay soil, with some from trampled pastureland.

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