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Field Notes

Description:

Another small, lovely ground-cover plant growing under a tree. Moss. Just collecting them for now, searching for an online resource to help with IDs.

Notes:

Other ID possibilities:
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From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogonatum<br&gt;
Pogonatum is a genus of mosses, commonly called spike moss, which contains approximately 70 species that cover a cosmopolitan distribution. It can be seen mostly in Asian countries with a tropical climate. Nine species in North America.
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Wavy Catherine Moss, Atrichum undulatum

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
suzmonk
The plant is maybe three-quarters of an inch tall. No sporophytes. Frunaria looks like a good candidate. I'll follow up on it ... thanks, Miles.
MilesBerkey
here is another idea, I am not sure if you have a dicotomous key to figure it out but it could be a species of Frunaria. How tall is the vegetative portion of the plant? Could you find any sporophytes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funaria_hygrometrica
suzmonk
I know, right? When I get close to take photos of tiny plants, I often find there was more present than I first saw. These photos were meant to capture the asterisk-shaped plant ... but there's also the spindly moss and a leg of another kind of moss off to the left. Viva la small things!
MilesBerkey
the thin spindly one in the center image immediate to the stick looks like a species of Dicranum. As for the neighboring community I don't know.

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Moss & Moss Allies of Southeast USA
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PublishedDecember 30, 2013

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