Moss Notes

it's a beautiful sunny day today so i went for a little hike and during that hike i  was looking at the mosses on tree trunks as there...

Mniums used to be all lumped together in one genus - Mnium... then in 1968 T.J. Koponen separated them into different groups: 1...

Bryums & Mniums are very similar to each other at first glance...one usually notes that they both have capsules that are 'droopy...

There are a group of mosses that grow on the ground in especially shady places...they have wide leaves which have short to long teeth. belo...

 Mosses & Liverworts can reproduce by other means than spores. The asexual strategy is much faster and less costly than sexual reproduct...

where Conocephalum is one of our largest thalloid liverworts, Bazzania is one of our largest leafy liverworts. this means that it has a s...

i haven't talked too much about liverworts, but they're no less deserving than mosses...Many of them are tiny and difficult to ident...