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This very very very common moss that looks like a

This very very very common moss that looks like a fern is one of our most beautiful. It's Thuidium delicatulum, seen yesterday on a sandstone ledge in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #thuidium #bobklips

This inconspicuous carpet moss grows fairly high o

This inconspicuous carpet moss grows fairly high on tree trunks in open woodland situations. It's not very distinctive; the best way to recognize it is by the fact that it has twelve syllables in its name --this is Homalotheciella subcapillata ("few-haired miss"), seen today in south-central Ohio's Highland County. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #homalotheciella #bobklips

Because they move with the water current and the s

Because they move with the water current and the surface can be quite glaring (circular polarizer filter comes in handy here), the water mosses, genus Fontinalis, are not the easiest ones to photograph. They are very long-stemmed aquatics with narrow concave leaves. Attached to the rock bottom of some clean cool shady woodland streams, they could be mistaken for algae. Like many aquatic plants, they are very variable, and hence difficult to ID to species. This one could be Fontinalis novae-angliae, New England Water Moss, seen Friday in southern Ohio's Hocking County. Hemlock leaves added for scale. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #fontinalis #bobklips

There aren't very many instances of mixtures of mo

There aren't very many instances of mixtures of mosses in the same genus, but different species, occurring together. Here we have two species of Fissidens, growing on a damp shady sandstone ledge in southern Ohio's Hocking County, seen last Friday. The larger, pale green one is Fissidens osmundioides (Purple-stalked Pocket Moss) and the smaller medium-green one is Fissidens bryoides (lesser pocket moss). Fissidens is flat. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #fissidens #bobklips

Lookey: lovely leafy liverwort Leucolejeunea. Phoo

Lookey: lovely leafy liverwort Leucolejeunea. Phooey, apparently it's now called Cheilolejeunea clypeata. Bye-bye alliteration. Come comprehend comely Cheilolejeunea clypeata. Anyhow, this was seen this afternoon on a shaded sandstone wall in southern Ohio's Hocking County. The leaves are incubously arranged. To tell this liverwort from others you would need to look at the undersurface and see that the leaves are bilobed (and with the smaller lobe on the bottom) and the under… See More #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #liverworts #leucolejeunea #cheilolejeunea #bobklips

Flat friends in a grotto. Although some mosses are

Flat friends in a grotto. Although some mosses are flat-ish because they are compressed dorsoventrally, their leaves are actually spirally arranged. A very few moss genera actually have their leaves inserted in two strictly opposing rows 180 degrees apart. Here are two of them. The long narrow one is the globally rare but locally abundant on damp shaded sandstone "sword moss," Bryoxiphium norvegicum. The smaller one that looks like a peacock's tail is an unidentified species of "fork moss," Fissidens (a widespread and speciose genus). These were seen Saturday in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #bryoxiphium #fissidens #bobklips

Flat flapwort, Odontoschisma prostratum is perhaps

Flat flapwort, Odontoschisma prostratum is perhaps the most distinctive, nay the only distinctive, rectangular-leaved succubus liverwort without any underleaves. The leaves are bordered by 2 neat rows of rectangular thick-walled cells. There are no gemmae. It grows on damp shaded sandstone. This was seen Saturday in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #liverworts #odontoschisma #bobklips

The quality control in the moss factory has gone d

The quality control in the moss factory has gone downhill. You probably can't tell in this not quite macro photo, but a lot of these cheap leaves have their tips broken off! This is Anomodon tristis (formerly Haplohymenium triste), growing high on a tree trunk Sunday in southern Ohio's Hocking County. The shoddy workmanship does come in handy though, as this species does not produce sporophytes, but the leaf fragments generate new plants, a form of asexual reproduction. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #anomodon #haplohymenium #bobklips

"Broom moss," Dicranum scoparium, is a large, comm

"Broom moss," Dicranum scoparium, is a large, common and distinctive acrocarp (i.e., the kind of moss that has upright stems side-by-side with sporophytes at their tips). Notice the hairlike leaves that seem swept to one side, as if the prevailing wind made them grow that way. This was seen yesterday at the edge of a sandstone ledge in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #dicranum #bobklips

A couple days ago I walked a mile up a little wood

A couple days ago I walked a mile up a little woodland stream near Clear Creek Metro Park in southern Ohio's Hocking County, all the way to its origin beneath a sandstone rockhouse/grotto where a little liverwort (approx. 1 mm wide shoots) was growing. A tiny piece fell into my pocket so when I got home I tried to identify it. As you can see, the leaves are complicate-bilobed (ventral lobe smaller, indeed much smaller) and the underleaves are strongly bilobed. I'm pretty sure it is a Lejeunea (in the broad sense) but so far haven't been able to identify it to species. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #liverworts #lejeunea #bobklips

“Biddlecome's Pouncewort” is a tiny plant, wit

“Biddlecome's Pouncewort” is a tiny plant, with shoots only 0.5-0.7 mm wide, that grows in yellow-green patches on bark or rock in damp low-lying places. The species name commemorates a 19th-20th early 20th century botanist, generally referred to as "Miss" Hannah J. Biddlecombe, of Cincinnati Ohio. See the passage from the July 1935 OSU Board of Trustees record acknowledging her bequest to the OSU Botany Department. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #liverworts #cololejeunea #hannahbiddlecombe #bobklips

At the signpost up ahead...your next stop, The Sph

At the signpost up ahead...your next stop, The Sphagnum Zone. This is a microscope view of a stem leaf of Sphagnum cuspidatum. In these mosses there are clear large hollow dead empty cells with holes in them (which is why sphagnum moss holds so much water and so is useful as a garden soil amendment), in a network of thin long narrow green living cells. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #sphagnum #bobklips

Ribbed bog moss, Aulacomnium palustre, reproduces

Ribbed bog moss, Aulacomnium palustre, reproduces asexually via these little leaflike gemmae clustered at the tips of stem extensions at the tops of the plants. (It also produces sporophytes.) This was seen yesterday at the margin of a ponded area of an abandoned sandstone quarry in east-central Ohio's Coshocton County. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #aulacomnium #bobklips

Liverworts! The strap-shaped one is Pallavicinia l

Liverworts! The strap-shaped one is Pallavicinia lyellii. At the far left (with the long ribbon of frilliness all along the midvein) is a male plant and, snuggling up next to it (with the singular flower-like patch of frilliness), a female plant (kinda romantic, eh?). The leafy one is an as yet undetermined species of Calypogeia, our only entire-leaved genus with an incubous leaf insertion, reproducing via asexual gemmae at the ends of some upright branches with reduced leaves. This was seen today in an abandoned sandstone quarry in east-central Ohio's Coshocton County. — in Stillwell, Ohio. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #liverworts #pallavicina #calypogeia #bobklips

Little wiry moss that covers small rocks in interm

Little wiry moss that covers small rocks in intermittent woodland streams, it's Hygroamblystegium (Amblystegium) tenax. This was seen Monday in south central Ohio's Fairfield County. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #amblystegium #hygroamblystegium #bryophyta #bobklips

"Small flat moss," Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans, has

"Small flat moss," Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans, has specialized means of asexual reproduction present as propagula clustered in leaf axils below stem apices. Here they are, as seen through a microscope at 40x. A little bit of the parent plant fell into my pocket today while I was visiting a shady sandstone ledge in Fairfield County, Ohio. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #pseudotaxiplyllum #bobklips

This cup-forming fruticose lichen is a member of a

This cup-forming fruticose lichen is a member of a difficult to distinguish group of several nearly identical species. Using the diagnostic technique known as "guessing," I've determined it to be Cladonia grayi. It was seen yesterday on a shale bank in central Ohio's Delaware County. #lichens #fruticoselichens #cladonia #bobklips

Variable-leaved crestwort, Lophocolea heterophylla

Variable-leaved crestwort, Lophocolea heterophylla, is a fairly typical liverwort, by which I mean that it doesn't look like a liver. Indeed most members of phylum Marchantiophyta are leafy, rather moss-like at first glance. Most have leaves in two prominent opposing rows as seen here (some have smaller underleaves as well). The two lobed leaves is something you'll never see on a moss. This was on a log in a swamp on Saturday, in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #liverworts #lophocolea #bobklips

The red-stemmed feathermoss, Pleurozium schreberi,

The red-stemmed feathermoss, Pleurozium schreberi, is a spectacularly common and abundant plant in the northeast that is not so frequently encountered in Ohio. In central Ohio's Delaware County it tends to occur sparingly, mixed with, say, Dicranum scoparium and Hypnum imponens, along with the lichen Cladonia furcata, on dry hillsides. Today I found a huuuge patch of it on a very steep bluff overlooking Alum Creek. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #pleurozium #bobklips

This featherlike moss that looks like a Hypnum ind

This featherlike moss that looks like a Hypnum indeed used to be a Hypnum, but no more. It's now in a different family even...it's Calliergonella lindbergii, in the Amblystegiaceae. It grows in wet spots in woods and meadows. This was seen today on a log in a southern Ohio (Athens County) swamp forest. Aside from habitat, the diagnostic features are microscopic: inflated cells at the lower leaf corners, and stem cells that are large and strip off with the leaves when you prepare a slide. It's fairly common. #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #ohiobotany #floraofohio #mosses #calliergonella #bobklips

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