University of California, RIverside is accepting specimens. If you need help identifying a species or just want to contribute contact Chris Wagner at UCR herbarium or contact me here. Please ensure you abide by all collection policies set out for agencies and private land owners!

If you are interested in participating in local bryophyte and lichen forays or want to be notified of workshops, classes and presentations contact 'Mossgeek' (Chris Wagner) to be added to the email list.

I will be hosting some upcoming presentations on zoom or teams. If your interested please contact me and ill put you on the list to participate

Taking a winter break to really update the lichen presentations. These Presentations are on hold at this time. Check back for dates

Tentative schedule..
-Introduction to Lichens
-Lichen terms for identification
-Common and Rare Lichens of Southern California
-Non-vascular management- Proper collection and herbariums.

Other UPCOMING LECURES being worked on.

• Evolution of land plants to bryophytes
• Soil Lichen crusts of southern California
• genre specific species lectures

Past presentations included bryophytes. if your interested in bryophyte lectures please contact me and ill add you to the list to repeat them later in spring.

Contact Chris Wagner mossgeek@yahoo.com or here on INaturalist.

If you or anyone you know is interested in giving a talk even if it i was "non vascular species documented within an area" which would be full of photos.. We are interested! Please contact me to schedule. No gathering because of covid 19 so lets share with online presentations, learn from each other and share!

The newly formed group Lichens and Bryophytes has been on hold since the Covid outbreak. I am considering having online 'ZOOM' or 'TEAMS" presentations on lichens and bryophytes. If you live in Southern California or contribute to INaturalist observation while visiting and want to learn anyway, please take this simple survey. (its only 10 questions but i may add more if I think I need any)

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NZDVK2M

And then message me with your name and email so when this is up and going, we can contact you to join the presentations. ~Chris Wagner

We are a Non-Vascular group. Our monthly bryophyte group in Menifee at the San Jacinto Collage biology lab. This is free and open to all beginner to advanced. Lab has microscopes and tools available for bryophyte identification. Every first friday of every month.

Next meeting will have a presentation on moss anatomy which will help in your ability to identify moss to species. We will then get into keying these mosses. After this we will then focus on the liverworts and hornworts. At this meeting we will discuss plans for group hikes where we can identify species and collect in order to identify to species.

Everyone in the group also discussed working on lichens as well. so we are opening this group up to "bryophytes and lichens" but beginning with the study of bryophytes.

We will attempt education speakers and help to id available.

If your Interested in more information or would like to sign up contact me at Chris Wagner, mossgeek@yahoo.com or here on INaturalist (mossgeek).

We are skipping the month of April do to the Covid outbreak. We hope to resume back in May but we will see..

We are a Non-Vascular group. Our monthly bryophyte group in Menifee at the San Jacinto Collage biology lab. This is free and open to all beginner to advanced. Lab has microscopes and tools available for bryophyte identification. Every first friday of every month.

May 1st, Next meeting will have a presentation on moss anatomy which will help in your ability to identify moss to species. We will then get into keying these mosses. After this we will then focus on the liverworts and hornworts. At this meeting we will discuss plans for group hikes where we can identify species and collect in order to identify to species.

Everyone in the group also discussed working on lichens as well. so we are opening this group up to "bryophytes and lichens" but beginning with the study of bryophytes.

We will attempt education speakers and help to id available. If your Interested in more information or would like to sign up contact me at Chris Wagner, mossgeek@yahoo.com or here on INaturalist (mossgeek).

We have started a monthly bryophyte group in Menifee at the San Jacinto Collage biology lab. This is free and open to all beginner to advanced. Lab has microscopes and tools available for bryophyte identification. Every first friday of every month.

March 6th, Next meeting will have an 'Introduction to Bryophytes presentation' which will include the most common mosses of Southern California. We will then get into keying these mosses.

Everyone in the group also discussed working on lichens as well. so we are opening this group up to "bryophytes and lichens" but beginning with the study of bryophytes.

We will attempt education speakers and help to id available. If your Interested in more information or would like to sign up contact me at Chris Wagner, mossgeek@yahoo.com or here on INaturalist (mossgeek).

Feb 2020
We are starting a monthly bryophyte group in Menifee at the San Jacinto Collage biology lab. This is free and open to all beginner to advanced. Lab has microscopes and tools available for bryophyte identification. Every first friday of every month. Will have some education speakers and help to id available. If your Interested in more information or would like to sign up contact me at Chris Wagner, mossgeek@yahoo.com or here on INaturalist (mossgeek).

-keep a small spray bottle to hydrate bryophytes. I always take pics of dry and hydrated when i can.

-Note the habitat. Some bryophytes are limited to rock/boulders while others are limited to tree trunks and branches. some bryophytes dont care about substrate. habitat and substrate also helps to identify to species.

-If there are several species, focus pictures on one species at a time. This way when identifying it we can identify one species within the photos.

There is no entodon documented in California! There was one 1975 specimen collected in Tijuana (Entodon macropodus). It seems many in so cali picked up on Entodon when its most likely Scleropodium sp.