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Mon, Feb 28, 11 at 14:32
| Found this moss growing in the gravel on my driveway. very little, if any soil.
Can anyone identify this? Any help appreciated.. Pete
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- Posted by terrestrial_man 9 (eyuracleo@hotmail.com) on Tue, Mar 1, 11 at 3:25
| My best guess would be a species of Tortula. Its capsules are beaked. It is low growing. It grows in hard situations, such as rocky places. I could not find any images of immature capsules as your image has. Check the link below for a list of species with images but the few that have capsule are mature or fairly mature capsules. I could also be quite wrong in the ID. I have seen it before but after looking at hundreds of images of mosses there is no way I can keep mental track of what is what unless I know the moss personally. But if you have the time here is one site that has some images of mosses which I hope is the one that it is located on (?) Wiscon sin Bryophytes |
Here is a link that might be useful: USDA Tortula
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