Copper Wire Moss
Pohlia nutans
44.1217, -72.5415
Field Notes
Description:
Found on decaying wood. Small plants are easiest to spot beneath their abundant drooping capsules. Small, upright tufts, are usually 1-3 cm tall, yellow-green, not particularly shiny. Leaves are clustered at top of red stems. Lower stems are sometimes matted with rusty fuzz.
Habitat:
Shady soil, on aged Sphagnum mounds, on rotting logs, also in cracks of rock cliffs.
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