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Yesterday I led a lichen a hike at a park in Picka

Yesterday I led a lichen a hike at a park in Pickaway County. It was fun--one person came! In addition to some lichens, we saw on an old RR bridge abutment the largest I've ever seen patch of this tiny but easily identified thanks to the obtuse leaves moss, the aptly named Fissidens obtusifolius. #moss #mosses #bryophytes #botany #plants

Sharp-pointed earwort, Diplophyllum apiculatum, is

Sharp-pointed earwort, Diplophyllum apiculatum, is a small (this scene is about 1 cm across) leafy liverwort with complicate-bilobed (folded like a mitten-wearing hand grasping something) leaves with the smaller lobe on top. It is frequent on damp shaded sandstone ledges. There's a bit of Diphyscium foliosum there too. This specimen was seen yesterday in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #liverworts #bryophytes #liverworts #botany #plants #marchantiop

I'm pretty sure this is is Sciuro-hypnum plumosum

I'm pretty sure this is is Sciuro-hypnum plumosum (the old Brachythecium plumosum). The sporophytes have rough seta, a nice way to ID some members of its family, the Brachytheciaceae. It was seen Sunday at a long-abandoned sandstone quarry in northeast-central Ohio's Holmes County. #mosses #bryophytes #plants #botany #sporophytes

A cute little pinnately branched liverwort (the st

A cute little pinnately branched liverwort (the stems are about 0.5 mm wide) with leaves that are mostly 3-lobed seen yesterday on a block of sandstone in a long-abandoned rock quarry in northeastern Ohio's Holmes County, I believe this is Lepidozia reptans. #liverworts #bryophytes #plants #botany

A microscopic feature of the branch leaves in cros

A microscopic feature of the branch leaves in cross-section (green cells rectangular, exposed about equally on both the inner and the outer leaf surfaces) puts this peat moss in the section subsecunda. The large stem leaves (>2 mm) fit Sphagnum lescurii although, to quote Bruce Allen in Mosses of Maine, "These characters are somewhat arbitrary and overlapping and, thus, require making judgmental decisions." It was seen on reclaimed surface coal mine land in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #mosses #bryophytes #botany #sphagnummoss

Fissidens is a genus of mosses with leaves inserte

Fissidens is a genus of mosses with leaves inserted in two strictly opposite rows, making them look rather featherlike. Identification can be challenging. Some leaf details seen through the microscope (mid-nerve not protecting past the apex; tips not irregularly serrate; cells a little bumpy) spell out Fissidens bushii, maybe. It was seen a couple days ago at the base of a sandstone ledge in southern Ohio's Vinton County. #mosses #bryophytes #plants #botany #fissidens

Argh, Brachythecium...I mean Ahh, Brachythecium! A

Argh, Brachythecium...I mean Ahh, Brachythecium! A difficult genus of carpet mosses. The very plicate (longitudinally folded) leaves, abundant sporophytes (young though they may be) suggesting it is autoicous (having male and female reproductive structures on the same plant), and the fairly ling-tipped branch leaves make it likely this is Brachythecium falcatum. Back in the old days this would have keyed out to B. salebrosum, but that's not recognized as an eastern North American taxon any more. #mosses #bryophyta #botany #nature #plants

I was wooed into visiting Swamp Cottonwood State N

I was wooed into visiting Swamp Cottonwood State Nature Preserve in northern Ohio's Medina County by the prospect of seeing swamp cottonwood, but nope. It's a swell swamp however, where on a soil mound from a long-ago upturned tree (a swamp cottonwood perhaps?) I saw this New England bryhnia moss, Bryhnia novae-angliae. The identification is +- iffy, because to my eyes it's julaceous (wormlike) which the descriptions don't mention and through the microscope the cells don't seem to have the diagnostic bumps on the cells (papillae). Nothing else seems to match any better. #mosses #bryophytes #botany #plants #biology

I went to Swamp Cottonwood State Nature Preserve i

I went to Swamp Cottonwood State Nature Preserve in northern Ohio's Medina County to see sought-after swamp cottonwood but I didn't see any darn swamp cottonwood. It's a very cool swamp despite the scarity of the mythical swamp cottonwood and there was a nice patch of this prairie peatmoss, Sphagnum palustre. #mosses #sphagnum #botany #plants #bryophytes

I went to Swamp Cottonwood State Nature Preserve i

I went to Swamp Cottonwood State Nature Preserve in northern Ohio's Medina County to see swamp cottonwood but I didn't see any swamp cottonwood. It's a very cool swamp however and there was a nice patch of this simple thalloid liverwort, Pallavicinia lyellii. #liverworts #bryophytes #botany

A feather-branched carpet moss most often seen in

A feather-branched carpet moss most often seen in low sunny seepy sites, this is Calliergonella lindbergi (formerly Hypnum l. , and so it still has the common name "Lindberg's Hypnum moss) on a woodland path along with a smoothcap moss (genus Atrichum), as seen yesterday in Highland County Ohio. #mosses #bryophytes #plants #botany

This feather-branched carpet moss seen yesterday i

This feather-branched carpet moss seen yesterday in a calcareous wet meadow in central Ohio's Franklin County has stems that are densely clothed in filamentous paraphyllia, and leaf cells that are unipapillose. Methinks it be Helodium blandowii. #mosses #bryophytes #botany #plants #nature #botany

Most members of the haircap moss family Polytricha

Most members of the haircap moss family Polytrichaceae are easy to recognize as such because they have ribbons of stacked cells --lamellae --running lengthwise along the leaf mid-nerve (costa). Not this one, Atrichum crispum, which is a foooler as the lamellae are so few and low as to be essentially absent, and the leaf shape and serration are essentially identical to members of the "leafy moss" family Mniaceae, especially Plagiomnium ciliare. This was seen on Saturday to be abundant in spots on the muddy floor of a swamp forest in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #mosses #bryophytes #botany #nature #plants #ohioplants

Narrowleaved wetland plume moss, Helodium (or Elod

Narrowleaved wetland plume moss, Helodium (or Elodium) paludosum is a once-pinnate carpet moss that is somewhat infrequently encountered. It looks somewhat Thuidium (fern moss)-like, and like that genus, has filamentous paraphylla clothing the stem (not visible from this distance), but it has smooth, not papillose leaf cells. This was seen Saturday in a swamp in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #mosses #botany #plants #bryophytes

Not an especially common fern, it was fun to see a

Not an especially common fern, it was fun to see a large patch of this netted chain fern, Woodwardia aereolata, a couple days ago in a southern Ohio swamp forest where you would expect its much more common lookalike, sensitive fern (Onoclea). This one isn't wavy-margined like sensitive fern is and has a monomorphic, not holodimorphic, frond type (i.e., not differentiated into separate sterile and fertile fronds). #ferns #botany #ohioplants #pteridophyta

An unusual Sphagnum moss, seen Saturday at a wetla

An unusual Sphagnum moss, seen Saturday at a wetland in southern Ohio's Hocking County. This is Sphagnum papillosum, a member of the section Sphagnum --the group with the plump hood-shaped leaves --differentiated from others in the group by the finely papillose walls of the clear cells adjacent to the green ones visible in microscopic cross-section of the branch leaves, and by the stem leaf cells being mostly divided. #mosses #bryophytes #botany #sphagnum

Ooh, ooh! Our only (native) fern that is a vine, i

Ooh, ooh! Our only (native) fern that is a vine, it's "climbing fern" (iNat called it "Hartford fern"), Lygodium palmatum, seen in spectactular abundance at a sphagnum-dominated swamp/marsh boundary in southern Ohio's Hocking County. On the left are vegetative leaves; on the right the spore-bearing ones. #ferns #petridophytes #botany #ohioplants #flora

Shiny flat carpet mosses can be a challenge to ide

Shiny flat carpet mosses can be a challenge to identify. Here's one on a rock in a forest in south-central Ohio's Fairfield County. By virtue of the absence of brood bodies (thus ruling out Pseudotaxiphyllum) and the not especially enlarged cells on the lower corners of the leaves (thus ruling out Pylaisiadelpha), along with its symmetric, not asymmetric leaves, methinks this be "curved silk moss," Plagiothecium curvifolium. #mosses #bryophytes #plants #botany #ohioplants

Quillworts in the genus Isoetes are peculiar non-v

Quillworts in the genus Isoetes are peculiar non-vascular lycophytes that grow in shallow water. Heterosporous, they produce tiny microspores that develop into male gametophytes, and quite large megaspores, shown here as viewed through a dissecting microscope at about 40x, that give rise to the females. The species are identified by their megaspore ornamentation. The pattern of ridges, not spines, indicates these spores are from Isoetes engenlmannii, seen yesterday at Hammertown Lake in southern Ohio's Jackson County. #quillworts #isoetes #lycophyta #botany #ohioplants

Tired of bryophytes? OK, here's a bryozoan! Had a

Tired of bryophytes? OK, here's a bryozoan! Had a great time kayaking on an inlet of Alum Creek in central Ohio's Delaware County where this Pectinella magnifica is abundant in at least one spot. It's a colony of small filter-feeders, kind of coral-like in their ecology but belonging to an entirely different phylum, one that was more prevalent at an earlier time in earth;s history than today. #bryozoan #zoology

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