| Uryu T |
Bogs |
Wetland vegetation |
Uryunuma-shitsugen (including Etaidake-shitsugen, Gunmadake-shitsugen) |
The site contains small bogs in Etai-dake
(peak) and Gunma-dake, and on the eastern slope of Minamishokan-dake.
Uryunuma-shitsugen is designated as a Prefectural Natural Monument
by the government of Hokkaido. There are communities of Moliniopsis
japonica-Sphagnum papillosum, M. japonica-S. compactum, M. japonica-Carex
middendorffii, S. pulchrum and Scheuchzeria palustris-Rhynchospora
alba. The diverse aquatic plant communities are found in ponds
and rivers, including communities of Sparganium gramineum, S.
gramineum, Carex rostrata, Menyanthes trifoliata, Iris laevigata,
Equisetum limosum, Carex rhynchophysa and C. lyngbyei. Riparian
vegetation includes langsdorffii-Veratrum stamineum communities. |
