Orton Moss devil's-bit scabious, knapweed, meadowsweet and wild angelica are abundant. Small remnants of raised mire vegetation including sphagnum moss, bog rosemary and royal fern. Birds to be seen are willow tits, woodcock, great spotted woodpeckers and willow warblers. Orton Moss Orton Moss is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located west of the city of Carlisle in northwest England. Orton Moss is a former raised mire and divided into strips and fields which would traditionally have been used for peat cutting and grazing. Formerly noted for its butterflies, it was once the homes of the wood white, ("Leptidea sinapis"), the large
Moss in cities. Examples would be "Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus", a garden weed in Vancouver and Seattle areas; "Bryum argenteum", the cosmopolitan sidewalk moss, and "Ceratodon purpureus", red roof moss, another cosmopolitan species. A few species are wholly aquatic, such as "Fontinalis antipyretica", common water moss; and others such as "Sphagnum" inhabit bogs, marshes and very slow-moving waterways. Such aquatic or semi-aquatic mosses can greatly exceed the normal range of lengths seen in terrestrial mosses. Individual plants or more long are common in "Sphagnum" species for example. Wherever they occur, mosses require liquid water for at least part of the year to complete