Paludella squarrosa (Hedw.) Brid.
Annotated by David H. Wagner, 30 Mar 2016.

Washington: Okanogan County: Tonasket Ranger District, Headwaters Sinlahekin Creek. Access at point where 3900 road crosses far upper Sinlahekin Creek. Wetland begins immediately west of road as a lightly wooded area that with further western travel becomes open meadow at the far northern end of the wetland system. ¶Location Notes: Accessing site will require walking SW into the main meadow, and then proceeding southerly through or along the meadow's edge for approx. 675m to the northern edge of the southern-most leg of the meadow complex. The site is along the eastern edge of this leg. Elev. 6276 ft.
UTM Zone 11, 285090E, 5400906N
This is a very large, gently sloping, moss and sedge-dominated groundwater wetting wetland with damp organic soil often 52+" thick; numberous rare or uncommon fen-loving plant species were detected.¶¶Associated Species: lichen/moss layer: AUPA70, SPHAG2; herb layer; CAUT; shrub layer: BEGL. Substrate: wetland.¶Location Notes: There appears to be a abundant suitable habitat for PASQ70 within the large, physically diverse wetland-meadow system. Wetland overall with notable number apparently rare or uncommon WA plant species including Carex tenuiflora; the mosses Splachnum spaericum, Calliergon richardsonii, Scorpidium scorpioides, S. cossonii, Paludella squarrosa, TONI70, and Fissidens osmundioides. Substrate: terricolous.

Rick Dewey RD072315-1907, Jul 23, 2015
WTU, Barcode: WTU-B-079535