{"id":5703,"date":"2020-12-10T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/herbarium\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2020-12-12T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T11:59:36","slug":"adventbotany_2020_day10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/herbarium\/2020\/12\/10\/adventbotany_2020_day10\/","title":{"rendered":"#AdventBotany 2020 Day 10 – Spikemoss stories, Selaginella<\/i> outdoors and in"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Hans Olav Nymand<\/a><\/h3>\n

Denmark is a little land in Scandinavia, Northern Europe, but unlike the other Scandinavian countries, we have neither mountains (highest point 172m) nor vast boreal forests, and despite the relatively northern latitude, the Gulf Stream assures a cool temperate coastal climate with mild winters and cool summers.<\/p>\n

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The position of Denmark in Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These geographic and climatic facts and a historical preference for intensive heavily mechanized agriculture, means that there are very few spots in Denmark with nutrient poor, undisturbed soils.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One consequence of this is that only one species of Selaginella<\/em> can be found in the wild, S. selaginoides<\/em>, the lesser clubmoss, and it is extremely rare, only small stands found only in a few protected areas.<\/p>\n