homeformosses's Identifications

Where Lake Cushman has dried up this stuff has found its niche. I think it's only been three years since they first lowered the lake level, so this is a fast growing moss!

It is growing on the silt and on the old growth stumps, but it seems to prefer the silt.

It seems to have a dendroid growth habit. No sporophytes were observed. I think it's an acrocarp.

It is carpeting the ground like a lawn in some areas.

This is fun little moss that was lodged in the cracks of a small brick wall. It always seems to grow with grimmea.

The genus has been changed to
Syntrichia but it's only listed at Tortula in Inat. This is the model moss for studying dessication tolerance. It is also an urban moss that can tolerate some pollution.

This grows on top of cinder rocks under a purple rhody bush on the north side of my house.

I don't know what it is and I never noticed it before this quarter.

Perhaps it is a Hypnum species. It is a very pretty moss. Maybe I will dissect it later this week.

I think this is Dendroalasia simply because of the way it curls up. I have not researched this at all.

This was on a massive old growth douglas-fir stump next to a large lake that was formed by damming a river. The site is shady and very mesic.

At the Bloedel Reserve in the moss garden. It was cold and raining for most of the day. The location was by a little stream in the shade of a Western Redcear (Thuja plicata). There was a large patch of it growing in a spreading fashion.

This small moss was growing in cracks on a cement roof at the college. It also grows on my car. I think it's a bryum.

The day was cold and dry the campus was slushy and trashed. I found liverworts and lichens on fallen branches all over campus.