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Welcome to ohioplants.org, your on-line companion to Ohio Plants, EEOB 2210.
Look here for examples of the concepts we're covering in lecture and lab.

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Happy happy joy joy! After years of looking for an Happy happy joy joy! After years of looking for and not finding and/or looking at and not realizing it, here is "dusky rock moss," Andreaea rothii. A member of a small and distinct taxon, the order Andreales, it is distinguished from other blackish cushion mosses on rock by its odd spore capsule that lacks a peristome but instead splits into 4 segments. This was seen yesterday on a sandstone cliff face in southern Ohio's Vinton County. #mosses #plants #bryophytes #ohioplants #ohiobotany #bobklips
Liverwort sporophytes! They start out looking like Liverwort sporophytes! They start out looking like black olives, end up looking like little flowers, and don't last long. This is Scapania nemorea, seen this afternoon in southern Ohio's Vinton County. #liverworts #botany #bryophytes #ohioplants #ohioflora #scapania #sporophytes #bobklips
Seligeria pusilla is a tiny somewhat rare acrocarp Seligeria pusilla is a tiny somewhat rare acrocarpous (upright-stemmed with the sporophytes at the stem tips) moss that is said to have an affinity to limestone but here in southern Ohio's Athens County (seen 2 days ago) it is growing on wet shaded sandstone. #mosses #seligeria #bryophytes #ohioplants #botany #flora #bobklips
If you're ever on that game show where you answer If you're ever on that game show where you answer with a question, and the moderator says "the most magnificent thing that nature ever selected," you should say "What is apple moss, Bartramia pomiformis?". This was seen yesterday on a dripping wet sandstone face in southern Ohio's Athens County. #mosses #bartramia #ohioplants #ohiomosses #bryophytes #plants #botany #ohioflora #flora #bobklips
This "low peatmoss," Sphagnum compactum, is growin This "low peatmoss," Sphagnum compactum, is growing in an unusual spot for a Sphagnum, a flat open upland area beneath a hemlock tree at the lawn-forest transition at a park in northeast Ohio's Lake County. It's our only Ohio member of the subgenus rigida, which closely resembles subgenus Sphagnum by having branch leaves that are somewhat hooded and also have a resorption furrow. Thanks Shaun Pogacnik for showing it to me yesterday. #ohiomosses #ohioplants #ohiobotany #mosses #bryophytes #sphagnum #botany #bobklips
Gemmiferous (asexually reproducing) stems of ribbe Gemmiferous (asexually reproducing) stems of ribbed bog moss, Aulacomnium palustre, as seen today in a swamp forest in northeast Ohio's Lake County. #mosses #ohioplants #ohiobotany #bryophytes #aulacomnium #bobklips
This wee little (lobes about 1mm across) simple th This wee little (lobes about 1mm across) simple thallose liverwort seen Saturday on a tree in southern Ohio's Vinton County is a Metzgeria, prolly M. furcata. #liverworts #ohioplants #ohiobotany #bryophytes #bobklips
This microscope view of the underside of a leafy l This microscope view of the underside of a leafy liverwort shows why it belongs to the genus Radula. Note the leaf configuration is "complicate bilobed" (like a mitten) with the larger lobe on top. There are no underleaves, and the cells each have a single, large, oil body. #liverworts #ohioplants #ohiobotany #bryophytes #bobklips
A leafy liverwort, Radula obconica, grows high on A leafy liverwort, Radula obconica, grows high on the bark of a sugar maple in southern Ohio's Vinton County. #liverworts #ohioplants #radula #bryophytes #ohiobotant #bobklips
Flat shiny carpet mosses are generally hard to ide Flat shiny carpet mosses are generally hard to identify but there's a clue for this one (unfortunately not apparent in the photo) --bunches of asexual brood branchlet gemmae in the leaf axils that mark this as "small flat moss," Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans. It was seen yesterday on thin soil in a sandstone boulder in southern Ohio's Vinton County. Its associate is boulder broom moss, Dicranum fulvum. #ohioplants #moss #mosses #bryophyta #bryophytes #ohiobotany #bobklips #pseudotaxiphyllumelegans
Holy Bryum, Batman! We're used to seeing silvery b Holy Bryum, Batman! We're used to seeing silvery bryum, Bryum argenteum, as a silvery-looking sidewalk-crack moss in dry urban sites or, if not quite so dry, not quite so silvery. Here it is looking extraordinarily silvery, and in a lovely natural setting --a calcareous barren spot in southern Ohio's Adams County (a few days ago). The silvery aspect is attributable to the cells n the upper portions of the leaves lacking chlorophyll. #bryum #moss #bryophytes #ohioplants #ohioflora #bryum #bobklips
Some male moss plants have whorls of leaves surrou Some male moss plants have whorls of leaves surrounding their clustered sperm-producing "antherida," wherein these dish-like rosettes act as splash cups to help disseminate the sperm when they are struck by raindrops. This is ribbed bog moss, Aulacomnium palustre, seen earlier this week in southern Ohio's Adams County. Not also in the upper right, that spiky looking thing; it's a cluster of asexual gemmae elevated on a stalk, a useful ID feature for this moss. #ohioplants #moss #mosses #bryophytes #gemmae #bryophytes #bobklips
"Fan moss,"Forsstroemia trichomitria, is one of a "Fan moss,"Forsstroemia trichomitria, is one of a few species of large common Ohio bryophytes that grow high on bark and extend out in shelf-like sprays of foliage (the others being Anomodon minor, Porella platyphylloidea, and Leucodon julaceus). This was seen today in the southern portion of the state (Adams County). #ohioplants #mosses #bryophytes #ohiobotany #bobklips
Common brrom moss, Dircranum scoparium can be spec Common brrom moss, Dircranum scoparium can be spectacularly abundant. This was seen yesterday in southern Ohio's Adams County. #ohiomosses #ohioplants #ohiobotany #mosses #bryophytes #dicranum #bobklips
When it rains the little cushion mosses on the roa When it rains the little cushion mosses on the roadside trees perk up. These are little bristle moss (Orthotrichum pusillum) (the one with the capsules) and marble screw moss (Syntrichia papillosa) (the one with the granular gemmae clustered along the leaf mid-rib). This was seen today on the OSU Columbus campus in central Ohio. #ohioplants #moss #bryophytes #ohiobotany #orthotrichum #ohioflora #bobklips
Bristly haircap moss, Polytrichum piliferum, is a Bristly haircap moss, Polytrichum piliferum, is a large cushion moss that grows in dry places, including sandstone ledges and sand dunes. The leaves look tubular because the margins are folded up and over the top of the leaf. The long hair-points distinguish this species from juniper haircap moss, which has the same tubular leaf margin thing going on but lacks the crazy tips. This was seen yesterday in east-central Ohio's Licking County.  #mosses #polytrichum #ohioplants #ohioflora #ohiobotany #botany #bobklips
The complex thalloid liverwort Reboulia hemisphaer The complex thalloid liverwort Reboulia hemisphaerica is monoecious, wherein an individual plant produces both (male) antheridia and (female) archegonia and thus also sporophytes. Like others of its ilk, the sporophytes are borne on the undersurface of mushroom-like caps, which are just now beginning to be elevated by their stalks. The antheridia though are embedded in a purple moon-shaped pad on the surface just behind the female stalk, visible in this photo taken today on an old historic canal lock made of Black Hand sandstone in east -central Ohio's Licking County. "Ilk" is a weird word. #liverworts #ohioplants #botany #bryophytes #ohioflora #bobklips
I had the pleasure of being a guest lecturer yeste I had the pleasure of being a guest lecturer yesterday, the first time in over a year doing something in person with a group of people. The topic was fungi and bryophytes, held at the OSU wetlands research facility where they have some sandstone blocks arranged in a semicircle that are home to a great growth of a tiny cushion moss with proportionally tall sporophytes that are developing nicely now. It's Tortula obtusifolia. #mosses #ohioplants #botany #tortula #pottiacea #bobklips #bryophytes
Myelochroa galbina with apothecia, flanked by Flav Myelochroa galbina with apothecia, flanked by Flavoparmelia caperata (the yellowish one in the upper left), Punctelia rudecta (the spotted gray one in the lower right) and Physcia millegrana (the fine-lobed one in the upper right. This was seen yesterday on a tree in east-central Ohio's Licking County. #lichens #ohiobotany #folioselichen #myelochroa#bobklips
This little wiry carpet moss found high on tree tr This little wiry carpet moss found high on tree trunks reproduces only asexually via fragile leaf tips that break off. It's Anomodon tristis (formerly Haplohymenium triste). The specific epithet means "sad" in reference I think to a dull color. This was seen yesterday in a very calcareous woodland in west-central Ohio's Greene County. #ohiomosses #mosses #bryophytes #botany #ohioplants #bobklips
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