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Urban mosses and lichens of Atlantic Canada

This guide is meant to assist Atlantic Canadians with continuing their natural history explorations through the year, as mosses and lichens (and liverworts!) are some of the few groups that are just as easy to identify in the winter as they are in the summer. There are a broad diversity of ...more ↓

stairstep moss 1
Hylocomium splendens
pincushion moss 2
Leucobryum glaucum
Redshank 3
Ceratodon purpureus
broom moss 4
Dicranum scoparium
Big Shaggy-moss 5
Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus
Red-stemmed Feather Moss 6
Pleurozium schreberi
shingle moss 7
Neckera pennata
Ostrich-plume Moss 8
Ptilium crista-castrensis
star moss 9
Tortula ruralis
brocade moss 7
Hypnum imponens
Recurved Brotherella Moss 6
Brotherella recurvans
Whip Fork Moss 10
Dicranum flagellare
boulder broom moss 11
Dicranum fulvum
Dicranum viride
Common Pocket-moss 12
Fissidens taxifolius
Hedwig's fringeleaf moss 13
Hedwigia ciliata
crisped pincushion 10
Ulota crispa
Granitic Cypress Plaitmoss 14
Hypnum cupressiforme filiforme
Plagiomnium
Woodsy Thyme-moss 15
Plagiomnium cuspidatum
Mnium 16
Dark-green Bristle Moss 17
Orthotrichum sordidum
Many-flowered Pylaisia Moss 18
Pylaisiella polyantha
creeping feather-moss 18
Amblystegium serpens
Hypnum pallescens 11
Smooth-stalk Feather-moss 19
Brachythecium salebrosum
Silvery Bryum 20
Bryum argenteum
Fontinalis 21
Flat-brocade Moss 22
Platygyrium repens
nodding thread-moss 23
Pohlia nutans

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