Mosses

Claopodium bolanderi

Claopodium crispifolium

Crumia latifolia

Forms small (to 3 mm) rosettes of bordered leaves, green to red toward the tips, blackish green to iridescent toward their base, on calcareous rock in shaded seeps.

Dicranum tauricum

Grows as dark green and glossy tufts or cushions. It has thin shoots about 2 cm high, with fine, erect, needle-like leaves. When brushed with your finger, the tips of the…

Hylocomium splendens

This is one of the most abundant mosses in our region, sometimes forming large carpets on the forest floor. It takes its name from its growth form, with its wide lacy shoots…

Kindbergia oregana

A large ground-creeping moss. The overall shape is triangular with regular, feather-like branches, starting with a broad base, tapering to an extended narrow tip. The leaves…

Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans

Racomitrium lanuginosum

Exceedingly common in open habitats, this is a large grey-green carpet-forming moss. It is immediately recognizable by a grey frosted appearance when dry due to its long…

Rhizomnium glabrescens

A common yellowish-green to more often green moss that may grow in large clumps. When fresh with large, oval to near rounded leaves, shiny with a strong mid-vein and smooth…

Rhytidiadelphus loreus

Scrambling over the forest floor, this species has a reddish stem, long but distantly-spaced branches and whispy, pointed leaves that are equally arranged around the stem.…

Vinealobryum norrisii