gracilis), Brome grass (Bromus sp.), Lovegrass (Eragrostis sp.), Prairie junegrass (Koeleria macrantha), Bullgrass (Muhlenbergia emersleyi),
Deergrass (M.
The ecological importance of Bewick and Beanley Moors lies in its great range and variety of botanical habitats, which include extensive areas of wet heath with heather, purple moor-grass, cross-leaved heath,
deergrass, bilberry and tormentil, along with areas of peat bog and marsh.
Deliberate burning also encouraged new plant growth;
deergrass, a plant used by various tribes for making coiled baskets, grew more rapidly following this practice.
Subordinate streamside vegetation is comprised of seepwillow baccharis (Baccharis salicifolia), which is dominant,
deergrass (Muhlenbergia rigens), cattail (Typha latifolia), annual spikesedge (Eleocharis caribaea), Grisebach bristlegrass (Setaria grisebachii), plains bristlegrass (Setaria leucopila), barnyard grass (Echinochloa crusgalli), knotgrass (Paspalum distichum) and water bentgrass (Agrostis semiverticillata).
Suspicous person, man in all black walking down road, gone on arrival, Thestland Drive and
Deergrass Road.
The immediate vegetation is best described as riparian, dominated by
deergrass (Muhlenbergia sp.) and false willow.