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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 ↓

Frullania inflata communis
Oakes' Scalewort
Frullania oakesiana
American Wall Scalewort 1
Porella platyphylloidea
Rustwort
Nowellia curvifolia
Flat-leaved Scalewort 2
Radula complanata
Asa Gray's Scalewort 3
Frullania tamarisci asagrayana
greater whipwort 4
Bazzania trilobata
Tree Fringewort 5
Ptilidium pulcherrimum
Creeping Fingerwort 2
Lepidozia reptans
Various-leaved Crestwort 6
Lophocolea heterophylla
Pellia 7
Lophozia 8
Cephalozia 7
Jungermannia
Scapania 9
New York Scalewort 10
Frullania eboracensis
lesser featherwort 11
Plagiochila porelloides
Riccardia 12

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