Moss Plants and More

Are female researchers well represented as authors of publications in your academic discipline? Ever wonder about the gender differences acr...

The newest edition of the plant carnival Berry Go Round has been posted at Seeds Aside .  There are some fun plant posts in the line up tha...

I was hiking in Hubbard Park in Meriden, CT this past weekend and came across this Polytrichum piliferum . It was growing on some rock at t...

Want to help teachers in low income communities bring great science to students?  Consider donating to the plant focused projects at th...

A new book about moss gardening is out! The Secret Lives of Mosses: A Comprehensive Guide for Gardeners by Stephanie Stuber . The book is ...

This is my first year competing in the Science Blogger Challenge . The challenge: Compete against other science bloggers to raise money for ...

The calendar for October is a blend of several different moss species occupying the crevice in a stone. The one in the center is Bryum argen...

Check out the second episode of the botanical series Plants Are Cool, Too! In this episode, they find preserved leaves from trees that grew...

This is leaf of Physcomitrium pyriforme or P. eurystomum . I am not sure which species. It was a preliminary photo that we took for some le...

The electron microscopy facility that I work in here at UConn just got a new piece of equipment over the summer and I have some images from...

I just saw this article about mosses living on glaciers in Iceland and the animals living inside them in the New York Times . These balls...

Introducing Jaffueliobryum wrightii ! Finally I finished up my moss identifications from my field trip to Missouri and Kansas back in Marc...