Specimen 3
-overcast day
-moist, frozen
-south side of Lab II
-collected from limb of tree, found all over tree with various exposures
Where Lake Cushman has dried up this stuff has found its niche. I think it's only been three years since they first lowered the lake level, so this is a fast growing moss!
It is growing on the silt and on the old growth stumps, but it seems to prefer the silt.
It seems to have a dendroid growth habit. No sporophytes were observed. I think it's an acrocarp.
It is carpeting the ground like a lawn in some areas.
We found this growing on the ground among leaf litter. There is a disagreement whether it is a moss or a vascular plant.
It kind of looks like a plagiothecium, but bigger. There does seem to be a root, though its short, so could be a rhizoid. It's stem is thick, with a clear costa/midrib visible to the naked eye. Leaves are thicker and longer than most mosses.
I vote on the side of vascular plant, but my colleague disagrees.
What do you think?
On inorganic soil at base of hill under conifers, 5 miles n. of Hoquiam on the E. Hoquiam road
This is fun little moss that was lodged in the cracks of a small brick wall. It always seems to grow with grimmea.
The genus has been changed to
Syntrichia but it's only listed at Tortula in Inat. This is the model moss for studying dessication tolerance. It is also an urban moss that can tolerate some pollution.
This grows on top of cinder rocks under a purple rhody bush on the north side of my house.
I don't know what it is and I never noticed it before this quarter.
Perhaps it is a Hypnum species. It is a very pretty moss. Maybe I will dissect it later this week.
The Evergreen State College. This moss was growing under a Doug Fir tree in leaf litter. It was short individuals growing upright out of the soil. The leaves were about 4 mm long and were red at the ends. Lamellae was seen under the microscope during a cross section of the leaf.
Growing on live oak
this specicific specimen had gemmae cups at their tips. if you look you can see sprouting sporophyte shoots!
I think this is Dendroalasia simply because of the way it curls up. I have not researched this at all.
This was on a massive old growth douglas-fir stump next to a large lake that was formed by damming a river. The site is shady and very mesic.
Specimen 3
-overcast day
-moist, frozen
-south side of Lab II
-collected from limb of tree, found all over tree with various exposures
At the Bloedel Reserve in the moss garden. It was cold and raining for most of the day. The location was by a little stream in the shade of a Western Redcear (Thuja plicata). There was a large patch of it growing in a spreading fashion.
This small moss was growing in cracks on a cement roof at the college. It also grows on my car. I think it's a bryum.
The day was cold and dry the campus was slushy and trashed. I found liverworts and lichens on fallen branches all over campus.