Moss Plants and More

Apologies, the blog took a bit of a summer vacation while I focused on writing up the first chapter of my PhD dissertation. It reminded me o...

The latest edition of the plant carnival Berry Go Round has been posted at the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog . Enjoy the plants of s...

The announcement is up for my next moss walk this summer through the Connecticut Botanical Society. The details are listed below or you can...

The latest edition of the plant carnival Berry Go Round has been posted at Greg Laden's blog . This month there is a lot of interesti...

A few weeks back ( My Bryology Bookshelf III ) I had a question about when hornworts were moved from being recognized as a type of liverwort...

I led a moss walk several weeks back. On that outing I heard about a book that includes some bryophyte identification that I had not seen be...

The latest edition of the plant carnival Berry Go Round has been posted at A Neotropical Savanna . This month there is a featured post abo...

Mosses With A Hand Lens by A. J. Grout  Third Edition - 1924 A Popular Guide to the Common or Conspicuous Mosses and Liverworts of the Nort...

Here are some photos of the moss Timmia megapolitana, the species that I worked on for my Master's Thesis.  Its common name is the In...

I have been relaying the science tale of lamellae as snorkels for quite a while now ( here and here on this blog) and I recently came acro...

Sphagnum mosses (peat mosses) have a capsule with a really interesting manner of spore release. They open with an explosive *pop* that can ...

The latest edition of the plant carnival Berry Go Round has been posted at Gravity's Rainbow . The theme for this edition is springtime...