Moss Plants and More

The spores land on a suitable substrate (either soil, tree bark or rocks, depending on the species) and grow to form a filamentous mat, call...

The last we heard form our moss life cycle we had arrived at fertilization. This process produces a diploid sporophyte that has two sets of ...

Bryonet is an email discussion group operated by the International Association of Bryologists. This listserve facilitates communication amon...

Ethnobryology is the scientific study of the relationships between people and bryophytes. Some of the uses that people have for mosses and t...

If you remember anything about plants from biology class you might recall learning about life cycles. Typically this is a challenging and dr...

The tenth edition of Berry Go Round has been posted at 10,000 Birds . Berry Go Round is a monthly blog carnival all about plants. Enjoy! ...

An article came out this month in the New Life Journal about gardening with mosses . This article was written by Ann Martin (Mossin' Ann...

While in Japan I traveled to the small town of Nozawa Onsen . It is about an hour north of Nagano, via train and then bus. Nozawa is nestled...

Every week members of the Goffinet Laboratory group meet to discuss a research journal article about bryophytes. The papers that we read ra...

The ninth edition of Berry Go Round has been posted at Gravity's Rainbow . Berry Go Round is a monthly blog carnival all about plants...

I visited Boston a couple of weeks ago and we stopped in for an afternoon at the New England Aquarium . It was my first visit and I enjoyed ...

Juan Carlos, one of my labmates, sent out a link to this bryology blog written in Spanish. It has been online since January 2008, but I wa...