Sterling Moss - Beginners Guide to the Bryophyte

PDF's Link To the BBS Fact Sheets For Each Species for ID Facts

Mosses are particulatly interesting in that they do not have the usual Xylem and Phloem to transport water and nutrients so are therefore low growing plants . and have a very shallow root system of rhizoids Three distinct families are shown below

 Springy Turf-moss (Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus)  Click Text




Red Stalk


Rough-stalked Feather-moss (Brachythecium rutabulum) Click text




Grey-cushioned Grimmia (Grimmia pulvinata)  Click text



Neat Feather-moss (Scleropodium purum)

Common Feather-moss Eurhynchium praelongum

Pointed Spear-moss Calliergonella cuspidata

Common Smoothcap (Atrichum undulatum)

Common Haircap  Polytrichum commune

Fruiting Body Detail aperture circa 5 mm dia is four angled and has a constriction at the base

Capilary Thread moss (Bryum capillare) 


 

Silky Wall Feather-moss Homalothecium sericeum





Waved Silk-moss Plagiothecium undulatum



 Hart’s-tongue Thyme-moss     Plagiomnium undulatum 

Crisp / Bruchi's Pincushion Ulota crispa/bruchii







The Bristle Mosses LINK External Material

Bristle-moss Orthotrichum affine

Anomalous Bristle-moss Orthotrichum anomalum

Wall Screw Moss Tortula muralis

Swans Neck Thyme Moss Mnium hornum

Crescent-cup Liverwort (Lunularia cruciata)  link

Great Scented Liverwort Conocephalum cnoicum 

Pellia epiphylla 

 Cypress-leaved Plait-moss Hypnum cupressiforme

Water Earwort Scapania undulata  (Photos (C) 2016 Gordon Jackson)

Bifed crestwort Lophocolea bidentata 

Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)

Bluish Veilwort Metzgeria violacea

Key feature Gmmae at forked tios