PEATBOG - Plant Identification in the Dark Peak

<div style="border: 2px solid #000000; padding: 4px"> <h3 align="center">Welcome to Barry's Field Notes</h3> <p align="justify" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px">My plant record collection specifically targets the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park, where many plants are in serious decline due to increasing environmental pressures. Unfortunately your browser does not currently support frames - this site is best viewed using IE 5.5 or above.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px">Content: The site offers a selection of pictures and information on plants from this acid upland region and continues to grow, (my plant-recording is ongoing).</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px">Purpose: It is hoped that the images gathered will help to illustrate the diversity of this unique area of peat moorland, provide an aid to the identification of its various plants and stimulate interest in conservation of the Dark Peak.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px">This site can only be viewed using frameset with graphics active. It contains data and images; records concerning Habitat, Ecology, Biodiversity and Distribution, for all plant species found in each of the various grid squares (monads) which are held for;</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px">Tintwistle, Crowden, Woodhead, Black Hill, Arnfield, Torside, Bleaklow, Far Black Clough, Wildboar Clough, Edale, Ladybower, Derwent, Ashop Clough, Snake Pass, Langsett, etc.</p> <p align="justify" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px">Species covered include: Ferns, Fungi, Grasses, Herbs, Lichens, Mosses, Rushes, Sedges, Shrubs and Trees. For example: Bracken Male Lemon-scented Club Moss Horsetails Mat-grass Wavy-hair Cloudberry Crowberry Cottongrass Bilberry Pine Bell Heather Cross-leaved Heath Hard Fern Soft Rush Hawthorn Silver Birch Sphagnum Holly Rosebay Willowherb Marsh Thistle Cowberry Crowberry Foxglove Bent Deergrass Sheep&#39;s Fescue Tormentil Creeping Buttercup Tussocks European Japanese Larch Sessile Oak Sycamore Scots Norway Rhododendron Herb Robert Purple Moor-grass Sitka Spruce Pine Labrador Tea Bog Rosemary to name a few.</p> </div>