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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
Big Shaggy-moss 2
Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus
Red-stemmed Feather Moss 3
Pleurozium schreberi
shingle moss 4
Neckera pennata
Ostrich-plume Moss 5
Ptilium crista-castrensis
brocade moss 4
Hypnum imponens
Recurved Brotherella Moss 3
Brotherella recurvans
Granitic Cypress Plaitmoss 6
Hypnum cupressiforme filiforme
Many-flowered Pylaisia Moss 7
Pylaisiella polyantha
creeping feather-moss 7
Amblystegium serpens
Hypnum pallescens 8
Smooth-stalk Feather-moss 9
Brachythecium salebrosum
Fontinalis 10
Flat-brocade Moss 11
Platygyrium repens

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