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NVC community M2 (''Sphagnum cuspidatum''/''recurvum'' bog pool community) is one of the
mire communities
A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place (geography), place, Norm (social), norms, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Identity (social science), identity. Communiti ...
in the
British National Vegetation Classification
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The British National Vegetation Classification or NVC is a system of classifying natural habitat types in Great Britain according to the vegetation they contain.
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system.
It is a fairly widely distributed community in northern western Britain, and is also found in
Norfolk. There are two
subcommunities.
Community composition
The following
constant species are found in this community:
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Cross-leaved heath
''Erica tetralix'', the cross-leaved heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to western Europe, from southern Portugal to central Norway, as well as a number of boggy regions further from the coast in Central Europe ...
(''Erica tetralix'')
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Common cottongrass
Common may refer to:
Places
* Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
* Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts
* Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Clapham Common, originally com ...
(''Eriophorum angustifolium'')
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Round-leaved sundew
''Drosera rotundifolia'', the round-leaved sundew, roundleaf sundew, or common sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that grows in bogs, marshes and fens. One of the most widespread sundew species, it has a circumboreal distribution ...
(''Drosera rotundifolia'')
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Feathery bog-moss
''Sphagnum cuspidatum'', the feathery bogmoss, toothed sphagnum, or toothed peat moss, is a peat moss found commonly in Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, the eastern coast of the United States, and in Colombia.
Description
''Sphagnum cuspidatum'' i ...
(''Sphagnum cuspidatum'')
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Flat-topped /