Shunner Fell botanical survey

A bleak and treeless green moorland looking up the twisting line of a shallow ravine in a broad depression towards the head of the ravine below a steep rise ascending to a high, featureless dome-shaped summit at the centre of the frame. — Great Shunner Fell from the Pennine Way footpath at Far Dale Gill, west of Thwaite village. Photo: Kreuzschnabel/Wikimedia Commons, Licence: Cc-by-sa-3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode).

In November 2016, Tim Laurie made a photographic record of botanical sightings on high moorland between 526 and 716 metres above sea level, on a walk from the watershed at the top of the Buttertubs road, across Open Access land to the summit of Great Shunner Fell. The results can be seen here:

Photographic category PDF – scroll to record 941

Other botanical records in this PDF are at nos. 590, 785, 788, and 979.