Mechové jezírko, Glacial lake in Vítkovice, Czech Republic.
Mechové jezírko is a small mountain lake in the Karkonosze range, stretching approximately 46 meters in length at an elevation of 944 meters. The water body sits in a mountain valley surrounded by steep slopes and coniferous forests.
Mechové jezírko lies in a moraine-dammed hollow in the Kotelní jámy cirque, formed by a mountain glacier during the Pleistocene. It is the only lake of glacial origin on the Czech side of the Krkonoše. In 1979 Vlastimil Pilous named it after the peat moss covering its bed and surface.
The name Mechové jezírko was given in 1979 by Vlastimil Pilous after the peat moss Dusén's bog-moss, which grows densely in and on the water. The surface also carries common water-starwort. Because of nature protection, visitors cannot walk to the shore and observe this vegetation only from a distance.
The lake lies about 1 km north-northwest of Dolní Mísečky, near the parking lot there, but free public access is not permitted because of nature protection. It can only be viewed from outside the protected moraine hollow.
The lake was named in 1979 by Vlastimil Pilous after the peat moss Dusén's bog-moss (Sphagnum dusenii), which fills its bottom and surface. The water is also covered by spring water-starwort (Callitriche palustris).
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