Photo
by Dr M Lueth ©.
*1: Marazion, 1865, WC
(PNZ) (Paton 1969a:
723).
*2: NearPark, SE. of Truro,
1829, JST (RAMM) (Paton 1969a:
723).
Scattered plants among other mosses, or forming low
lawns. Notes on habitats in Cornwall are as follows. Colonises
bare mineral soil (often where sandy; sometimes thin soil over
rock) that is free-draining and at least moderately
calcareous. Usually unshaded, sometimes lightly or partly
shaded (e.g. by scrub, 'hedges' or walls). Found on disturbed
ground inland (including soil heaps, disturbed patches in
grassland, base of wall, disturbed track among mine-spoil,
stubble fields, arable field left fallow, slope of reservoir
dam) and on cliffs (sometimes in exposed locations), on banks
and tops of 'hedges' near the coast, earthy banks around a
field gateway and amongst dune-grassland. Associates recorded
include many small bryophytes of open disturbed ground: Barbula convoluta, Barbula unguiculata,
Bryum radiculosum,
Bryum rubens, Bryum ruderale, Dicranella
schreberiana, Dicranella staphylina,
Dicranella
schreberiana, Fissidens incurvus, Microbryum
davallianum, Phascum cuspidatum
var. cuspidatum, Tortula truncata, Trichostomum
brachydontium, once Tortula
modica.
Commonly c.fr. [only recorded when capsules
present]: capsules immature 1-4, 6, 7, 10-12; dehiscing 1, 3,
[4, 5], [8], 11, 12;
dehisced.