calcareous fens

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Fen Garden - Bog Garden Forum - GardenWeb
... ve also heard of natural low-nutrient alkaline fens with Carnivores, but never heard about anyone ... fens soil chemistry is highly variable. Calcareous fens are buffered by limestone formations. Bogs are primarily fed through precip. I think there are also some instances in the northeast where bogs and fens ... 28, 05 at 13:43 Regarding CP's in Calcareous fens, see Schnell's book Carnivorous Plants of the ...
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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Dunes & Duneslacks
... found in conditions where there is some calcareous or basic influence. Liverworts Aneura pinguis This is a thalloid liverwort that occurs in dune-slacks, fens and flushes, and other moderately base-rich ... strong calcicole and is found on a wide variety of basic substrates, including soil in calcareous fens and flushes, stream-banks, moist or dry rocks and cliffs, on the crumbling mortar of ...
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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Main Category
... less entirely from rainfall). According to the levels of nutrient enrichment, fens are classified either as rich fens or poor fens (although there exists a continuum between these two broad types and often ... strong calcicole and is found on a wide variety of basic substrates, including soil in calcareous fens and flushes, stream-banks, moist or dry rocks and cliffs, on the crumbling mortar of ...
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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Preissia quadrata
... strong calcicole and is found on a wide variety of basic substrates, including soil in calcareous fens and flushes, stream-banks, moist or dry rocks and cliffs, on the crumbling mortar of ...
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Canadian Native Orchids - Cypripedium parviflorum
... , through the Great Lakes to the Prairies and the Rocky Mountains. A plant of the calcareous fens, it also occurs in other wet sites, especially with organic-rich or sandy soils. Flowering ...
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Botanical Garden | An introduction to The Newfoundland and Labrador Plant Biodiversity Hub
... an acidic soil and, consequently, difficult growing conditions for plants. In the west, there are calcareous soils and limestone outcrops and cliffs found in many areas. There are also several ... other associated species. Peatlands are a prominent feature of the island and the bogs and fens are found everywhere with their wonderful assemblage of plants. Marshes are essentially absent. There ...
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Botanical Garden | The Origin of Flora in Newfoundland & Labrador
... an acidic soil and, consequently, difficult growing conditions for plants. In the west, there are calcareous soils and limestone outcrops and cliffs found in many areas. There are also several ... other associated species. Peatlands are a prominent feature of the island and the bogs and fens are found everywhere with their wonderful assemblage of plants. Marshes are essentially absent. There ...
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Larix laricina (Du Roi) K
... sand; thus texture does not seem to be limiting. Although tamarack can grow well on calcareous soils, it is not abundant on the limestone areas of eastern Ontario (27) and is ... benches and other upland sites. In the Hudson Bay lowlands, tamarack grows on both extensive fens (11) and beach ridges (38). In British Columbia it is often an upland tree, growing ...
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Canadian Native Orchids - Cypripedium arietinum
... sand dunes over flat-lying calcareous rocks. Plants grow in dappled to partial shade of openings in the forest canopy. Moist to wet conditions of coniferous fens and edges of cedar swamps ...
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Canadian Native Orchids -Platanthera dilatata
... , mainly a plant of the Boreal and Mixed Forest Regions. Can be found in fens in areas of calcareous bedrock. Flowering Season June to July, and as late as September. Description Height ... . Flowers white, vanilla or clove scented.. Comments Occurs only in open sedge fens and in a fewc adjacent treed fens. It never grows in the more acidic environments of bogs. Often found ...
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