Cochlearia micacea Mountain Scurvygrass RR DDD N
This isn't a plant you can automatically expect to find in the Corrie so we started looking for it in the flushes just below the saddle between Ben Lawers and Beinn Ghlas. The examples we found were quite small but there were none to be found until a height of over 900 metres. One of the fruits is in the bottom left of the photo.
C. micacea is confined to a few mountains in the highlands of Scotland.
Flushes below the saddle, Ben Lawers 11th July 2005
Added on July 14th 2005, updated 4th December 2008, updated 19th March 2010, updated Se3 4th May 2010