Dr. Klips’ Instagram Gallery – Ohio Plants

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Calamus Swamp in central Ohio's Pickaway County is

Calamus Swamp in central Ohio's Pickaway County is home to a duckweed (ivy-leaved duckweed, Lemna trisulca, on the left) that looks like it's trying to be a liverwort, and a liverwort (floating crystalwort, Riccia fluitans, on the right) that looks like it wants to be a duckweed. Stay in your lanes, you two! #liverworts #bryophyte

A shiny flat carpet moss tentatively identified as

A shiny flat carpet moss tentatively identified as Plagiothecium laetum based on a few leaf traits seen thru the microscope such as symmetric shape and clear thin-walled inflated cortical cells that remained attached to the leaf bases, towered over by Ohio haircap moss, seen Sunday on a shaded damp sandstone ledge in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #moss

Hey! Stay in your lane, Mister Moss...you don't ha

Hey! Stay in your lane, Mister Moss...you don't have flowers! Oh...I see... you are indeed a male moss but those are are not petals; they are whorls ol leaves surrounding clusters of sperm-producing antheridia, comprising splash cups to water-disperse those sperm. Nice! This is Plagiomnium ciliare, seen 2 days ago in southern Ohio's Hocking County. #moss #botany #bryophytes

The leafy liverwort "grove earwort," Scapania nemo

The leafy liverwort "grove earwort," Scapania nemorea, is recognized by its leaves that are folded mitten-like, with the smaller lobe (the thumb, I guess) on top. Usually it's found on damp rock ledges in woods, so it was a surprise to see it yesterday on bare ground along a wooded path in southern Ohio's Scioto County. #liverwort #botany #bryophyte

This August at OSU’s Stone Lab, a biological fie

This August at OSU’s Stone Lab, a biological field station located on a lovely 8-acre island in Lake Erie, I will again be presenting a 3-day weekend moss workshop. Details are on the attached flyer and at the Stone Lab web site:
https://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/education/stonelab/courses/xd0eu/moss-identification-and-ecology-workshop

Please consider attending the workshop or helping to publicize it by sharing or posting the flyer. Thanks!

#moss #bryophyte

Thanks to Iris Copen for pointing me in the direct

Thanks to Iris Copen for pointing me in the direction of this unusual moss seen on a damp shady sandstone ledge in southern Ohio's Athens County on Saturday. It's "rock-loving swan-necked moss," Campylostelium saxicola, a small one characterized, in part, by by (quoting here from a botanical manual) "setae cygneous or flexuose when moist." "Cygneous" is an adjective meaning "curved like the neck of a swan." (Recall that the constellation Cygnus is the swan.) #botany #bryophyte #moss

Lookey lovely little leafy liverwort. Methinks it

Lookey lovely little leafy liverwort. Methinks it be "transparent flapwort," Solenostoma hyalinum. It was seen yesterday on a damp shaded vertical sandstone wall in southern Ohio's Athens County. (There are too many annoyingly similar genera and species within the genera of entire-leaved leafies that lack underleaves. Several microscope traits--red rhizoids and non-enlarged cells along the leaf margins--point me in this direction.) #liverwort #plantsofinstagram

This is "Apple moss." It's easier to use than "Win

This is "Apple moss." It's easier to use than "Windows moss," but more expensive. #botany

Marbled screw moss, Syntrichia papillosa, is fairl

Marbled screw moss, Syntrichia papillosa, is fairly common on roadside and woodland-edge trees, very often sharing space with some "bristle moss" of similar size and aspect in the genus Ortyhotrichum. Syntrichia, in our area, never produces sporophytes, but reproduces asexually by means of small globose gemma produced in great abundance along the midline of the upper leaf surface. When moist as in the photo, it is easy to recogonize, resembling little green flowers. When dry, it is dark, twisted, compressed, and much less readily noticed. This was seen a week ago during the "bio-blitz" at the OSU Wetlands Research Park in Columbus. #moss

I spent a recent weekend helping a terrific land t

I spent a recent weekend helping a terrific land trust organization --Arc of Applachia--census plants and animals at a potential new 1000-acre acquisition along the Gauly River in central West Virginia where this "crisped pincushion," Ulota crispa was especially common and abundant on small tree branches. #moss #botany #plantsofinstagram

I spent a recent weekend helping a terrific land t

I spent a recent weekend helping a terrific land trust organization --Arc of Applachia--census plants and animals at a potential new 1000-acre acquisition along the Gauly River in central West Virginia where we saw this imbricate bog-moss, Sphagnum affine, in a seepy open area. #sphagnummoss #botany #moss #plantsmakepeoplehappy

Had great fun during yesterday's bioblitz at the O

Had great fun during yesterday's bioblitz at the Olentangy River Wetlands Research Park in Columbus helping to document plant diversity. One of the highlights was seeing this patch of Tortula obtusifolia moss growing on some decorative boulders, with a photo-bombing gray tree frog! #moss #bryophytes

This picture isn't upside-down! Four-toothed moss,

This picture isn't upside-down! Four-toothed moss, Tetraphis pellucida, is most well-known as an inhabitant of well-decayed tree stumps, but in the Applachians and perhaps elsewhwere, you often encounter it on damp shaded sandstone ledges, in deep recesses. This was seen Sunday at a property along the Gauly River in Craigsville, West Virginia that is being considered for acquisition by The Arc of Appalachia. #moss #botany #bryophytes

Had a great hike with a great friend of 50 years a

Had a great hike with a great friend of 50 years at Indian Mounds Reserve in west-central Ohio's Greene County. It's a very limestoney spot where grows this "hemisphaeric liverwort," Reboulia hemisphaerica. Reboulia is a complex thalloid liverwort. The umbrella-like structures are egg-producing, and eventually (i.e., now) sporophyte-producing archegoniophores. #liverwort

There are some decorative boulders at the shortgra

There are some decorative boulders at the shortgrass prairie area of The Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park in Columbus Ohio that are home to a lush growth of this obtuseleaf screw moss, Tortula obtusifolia. #moss #bryophytes #botany

One of the few #bryophytidentifiable brachythecium

One of the few #bryophytidentifiable brachytheciums, I think. The narrowly cylindric and upright capsules mark this as Brachythecium acuminatum. It was seen Sunday on a log at Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve in Licking County, Ohio, USA. #moss #bryophytes

There's a boulder in an intermittent tributary to

There's a boulder in an intermittent tributary to Big Darby Creek at Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park in central Ohio USA that is graced with this "Hyophila Moss" (also called "rolled-leaf wet-ground moss"). When dry, the leaves are rolled upwards along the margins (i.e., involute, hence the name Hyophila involuta) into little tubes. Yesterday was rainy, so they were nicely spread out. #moss #bryophytes

I went moss hunting yesterday (moss poaching might

I went moss hunting yesterday (moss poaching might be a better description) for samples to show a class where I guest-lectured today. One of the ones we looked at was this Plagiomnium cuspidatum, with the sporophytes maturing nicely. (Don't worry; it was common and abundant.) #moss #plantsofinstagram #botany #bryophytes

Poking around a fallow field in central Ohio's Mar

Poking around a fallow field in central Ohio's Marion County yesterday, it was a pleasure to find this emerald dewdrops moss, Ephemerum crassinervium. It's a tiny (this scene is about a centimeter across) spring ephemeral moss that is frequent but easy to overlook owing to its extreme mini-ness, occurring on moist bare soil in a variety of situations, especially old fields cultivated the previous summer. #moss #botany #bryophyte

The Ohio Moss and Lichen Association is going to h

The Ohio Moss and Lichen Association is going to have a table display at the Ohio Botanical Symposium on Friday. This afternoon I went hunting for some specimens for display there and found this peg lichen, Cladonia subcariosa, in a an open shaley (is that a word?) spot in Delaware County. I like the crisp edge of the apothecial (is that a word?) margins. #lichens #cladonia #fungi

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