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Two-horned pincerwort, Cephalozia bicuspidata, is

Two-horned pincerwort, Cephalozia bicuspidata, is a small (really small...this scene is about 1 cm across) leafy liverwort for which the books tell us--mistakenly--that asexual gemmae are rarely produced. This specimen seen a week ago on a damp shady sandstone ledge in southern Ohio is all lollipop city with capitate clusters of gemmae. Apparently in Europe gemmae are are rare, but here they are commonly produced. #botany

I had a great time this past weekend at the combin

I had a great time this past weekend at the combined Crum-Tuckerman bryophte-lichen workshop in northern New York. One of the places we visited was an opening in a forest that once was a gravel quarry. The thin nutrient-poor soil there supports a nice growth of cladonia lichens and bryophytes, including this bristly haircap moss, Polytrichum piliferum. #moss #botany

I had a great time this past weekend at the combin

I had a great time this past weekend at the combined Crum-Tuckerman bryophte-lichen workshop in northern New York. One of the participants noticed these microscopic pineapple-like things on the leaves of a liverwort. Another participant, an expert on bryophilous fungi, immediately recognized it as Epibryon plagiochilae, an ascomycte found only on the leaves of Plagiochila, in this case Plagiochila asplenoides. #liverwort #fungi

One of the fun parts of working with old moss and

One of the fun parts of working with old moss and lichen specimens in a research museum is coming across interesting scrap paper used to wrap some of them. This is an advertising letter for artificial flowers ("...they will not spoil from gas-light...") that was sent to the Cleveland pharmicist and botanist Edo Claasen in 1898. #herbaria

Leafy liverwort leaves occur in two rows on opposi

Leafy liverwort leaves occur in two rows on opposite sides of the stem. They often overlap, Venetian blind-like and like such blinds, they can overlap one way or the other. When the forward-facing leaf edge is on top, it's called "incubous." Our only genus with entire (unlobed) leaves is Calypogeia; this is Calypogeia fissa, seen a few days ago on a damp shaded sandstone ledge in southern Ohio USA.

Sharpleaf hookeria moss, Hookeria acutifolia, is a

Sharpleaf hookeria moss, Hookeria acutifolia, is a denizen of damp recesses in sandstone at ground level. It's shiny, and has cells so large you can make them out naked-eye. The tips of some leaves, such as the ones in the lower left of the accompanying photo, produce rhizoid-like propagula as a means of asexual reproduction. Seen Sunday in southern Ohio, it isgrowing with with a small species of fork moss that is near the northen limit of its range here, Fissidens elegans (formerly known as F. ravenelii). #moss #plantsmakemehappy #botany #bryophyte

It would have been nice if the lower portions of t

It would have been nice if the lower portions of the stems of this moss were bare (denuded), as the specific epithet of this apparent Dichranodontium denudatum asserts they should be, but microscopic leaf features are a good match, so I'm calling it that. It was seen in early September on a damp sandstone ledge along a creek in southern Ohio's Hocking County. Its common name is (wait for it...)"denuded dichranodontiuim moss." #bryophyte #botany #plantsmakemehappy

This boulder in the woods at Summit County's (Ohio

This boulder in the woods at Summit County's (Ohio USA) O'Neil Woods Metro Park has a huuuge patch of smoky-eyed boulder lichen! #lichen

"Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Phil and Otis." "P

"Knock, knock."
"Who's there?"
"Phil and Otis."
"Phil and Otis who?"
"Philonotis marchica, a small light green cushion moss that grows in open wet places such as Deep Lock Quarry Metro Park in Summit County Ohio, where it was seen on Saturday during the annual Ohio Moss and Lichen Association late summer foray." #moss #botany #nature

Pretty Pogonatum pensylvanicum proudly presents pr

Pretty Pogonatum pensylvanicum proudly presents prominent persistent protonema.

Joan of Archegonia! Those little fingerlike lines

Joan of Archegonia! Those little fingerlike lines in the middle of the inset microscope photo, showing them at the tip of this Fissidens stem rather than on a short basal side-shoot, tells us it is Fissidens osmundioides rather than some look-alike such as F. dubious or F. bushii. This was seen Sunday in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #moss #botany #plantsmakemehappy

Verdigris tufa-moss, Gymnostomum aeruginosum, is a

Verdigris tufa-moss, Gymnostomum aeruginosum, is a small, often densely tufted, cushion moss that grows on damp shady vertical rock faces, limestone or sandstone. Here it is seen with the complex thalloid "snakeskin livberwort" on a ledge near an intermitent stream in southern Ohio. #bryophytes

Snakeskin liverwort (Conocephalum conicum/salebros

Snakeskin liverwort (Conocephalum conicum/salebrosum/whatever) has an interesting texture, adorned with pores that are the openings to chambers wherein most of the photosynthetic tissue is housed. The moss in the background is Gymnostomum aeruginosum. This was seen yesterday ib soouthern Ohio's Hocking County. #botany

A moss protonema--a word that translates to "first

A moss protonema--a word that translates to "first thread"--is an algal-like mass of green strands that develop from a germinated spore and then gives rise to the leafy stage of the life cycle we would normally recognize as a moss. In almost all mosses, the protonema is a transitory stage, so short lived and inconspicuous that it goes unnoticed. However in a few special cases, such as this algal haircap moss, Pogonatum pensylvanicum, the protonema is persistent, doing the lion's share of the plant's photosynthesis, and so the leafy stage is tiny tiny. The sporophytes, on the other hand, are as big as its relatives, the typical haircap mosses in the genus Polytrichum. Look for it in late summer and fall on bare soil in woods that looks like it was spray-painted green. This was seen a week ago in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #botany

Members of the genus Fissidens are called "pocket

Members of the genus Fissidens are called "pocket mosses#moss " because the base of each leaf is split into two halves that clasp the base of the leaf above, forming a pocket into which the clasped leaf fits. This one is Fissidens bushii, seen on thin soil between exposed trees roots in southern Ohio's Hocking County.

Yesterday I visited the Arc of Appalachia's 108-ac

Yesterday I visited the Arc of Appalachia's 108-acre "Ash Cave Eastern Reserve" (accessible by permit only) and saw, on the sandstone floor of the presently dry East Fork Queer Creek, vast swathes of this rolled-leaf wet-ground moss, Hyophila involuta. It is a member of the Pottiaceae with leaves that curl upwards tightly when dry, and spread out flat when damp. You can see a few of them beginning to become dry and do their curling thing. #moss #bryophytes #botany

Today I visited the Arc of Appalachia's 108-acre "

Today I visited the Arc of Appalachia's 108-acre "Ash Cave Eastern Reserve" (accessible by permit only) and saw this wee little leafy liverwort on a damp shady sandstone ledge --an as-yet unidentified species of Cephalozia. (I'm leaning towards C. connivens.) Note the photo-bombing Diplophyllum apiculatum! #liverwort #botany #bryophyte

A leaf of bird's-claw beard-moss, Barbula unguicul

A leaf of bird's-claw beard-moss, Barbula unguiculata, showing why it's called that (the bird's-claw part anyhow). #bryophyte #botany #nature

A luxuriant patch of bird's-claw beard-moss, Barbu

A luxuriant patch of bird's-claw beard-moss, Barbula unguiculata, is growing on the ground at the edge of a parking lot, shaded by a shed, at the Ohio State-Marion campus. #moss #bryophytes #botany #science

Dotted thyme moss, Rhizomnium punctatum, seen Sund

Dotted thyme moss, Rhizomnium punctatum, seen Sunday on wet rocks along the shore of Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie, Ohio USA. #moss #botany

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