I’ve driven past this interesting looking mossy patch on a planted ash tree on a roundabout in central Trowbridge many times but finally took a closer look today. Sure enough, Leucodon sciuroides, not usually found in very polluted places like this, not in my area anyway.

Lovely Blysmus compressus at Market Weston Fen. Definitely a hands and knees jobbie there.

When pottering about on the Somerset coast yesterday I came across a brackish rhyne with lots of wild celery (Apium graveolens) and parsley water-dropwort (Oenanthe lachenalii) growing together. It's still too early for flowers, but very nice.

And breathe….one way to put the scary/nasty stuff happening in the world to the back of my mind for a little while…

I was very privileged to see hundreds of early spiders out in their natural habitat yesterday. I'm no orchidophile, but I was unable to resist the charms of these little beauties.

The slime trail on this Herzogiella seligeri suggests a hungry slug or snail has been making a meal of those plump young capsules.

An excellent meeting of the Wessex Bryology Group on Exmoor last weekend turned up some nice liverworts, including some putative Jungermannia eucordifolia in a stream. If confirmed, it would be a new species for SW England @bbsbryology.bsky.social