Sussex is home to one of the rarest plants in the UK

The plant, a species of bryophyte, is in decline world-wide but thriving in the Hastings Cliffs to Pett Beach Site of Special Scientific Interest.

The IUCN has assessed the plant as under threat from eutrophication (excessive richness of nutrients in a body of water), and pollution of water

The Save Ecclesborne Glen group say the proposed Hastings Borough Council solar park development at the top of Fairlight Glen could cause an additional threat to the plant.

The photograph here, which has red arrows to indicate male plants and white arrows to indicate female, was taken on January 28. Fairlight Glen was assessed recently as having ‘a magnificent population’ of this very rare liverwort by bryologist Dr Des Callaghan of Bryophyte Surveys Ltd on behalf of Natural England.

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