The carniverous sundews plants are waking up from winter slumber. Here in some sphagnum compactum #moss #bryophyte #drosera #sundew

The second time recently I've seen this Bryum pallescens - Brachytheciastrum velutinum pairing. Photos are of the drip zone of a corrugated metal barn in Somerset (classic B. pallescens habitat); the other site was a cattle grid nr. Loch Lomond. Immature Bryum capsules, old Brachytheciastrum ones.

Recorded a moss that looked like Bryum capillare at a blanket bog in Galway. But it didn't have have the excurrent nerve that B. capillare does. A similar species is Pohlia nutans which i don't come across often. Thanks for confirming @joannedenyer.bsky.social Found Schistochilopsis incisa too

Always a good day when you stumble across Beech Fern (Phegopteris connectilis) and Oak Fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris) growing within a few feet of one another. #ferns

The moss Grimmia pulvinata on a Rowan trunk at Kinross service station, Scotland, yesterday. More commonly seen on rocks and stonework.

Really lovely to find a colony of Phegopteris connectilis (Beech fern) today whilst exploring Langdale #LakeDistrict #fernFriday

This moss in the shade on the left is still mostly unfurled. Just a centimetre away, in brighter sunshine, others in the same colony have changed form, their shoots tightening into rope-like strands as the leaves fold close to the stem, like protective scales holding in moisture. #moss #bryophytes

Moss and lichen 35mm in the Tongass Rainforest of SE Alaska #photography #hiking #alaska Sony a7cr, Sigma Art 24-70 v2

“The ability of some mosses to resist being completely dehydrated for months is worthy of admiration. Here the COSCINODON CRIBROSUS, on some rocks in full sun in the Albera mountain range, in a dry and hydrated state.“

Prince-of-Wales Feathermoss (Neckera smithii). The first photo was taken on a damp day. The second was last week on a very rainy day in Devon woodland, when the moss had unfurled into bright green sprays. Thanks to averisben.bsky.social for the ID. tinyurl.com/neckera-smit... #moss #bryophytes

I think this is Flat Neckera (Neckera complanata), shiny like Blunt Feather-moss, but flat...not arched like the back of a woodlouse. complanata from Latin: flattened or levelled. Echoes of it remain today in words like planing wood, and flood plain. Corby LNR, yesterday. #moss #bryophyte

Fox-tail Feathermoss (Thamnobryum alopecurum) in King's Wood LNR, Corby, yesterday. #mosses #bryophytes #forestfriday

I think this is likely the moss Lateral Cryphaea. I had previously only noticed it with very few spore capsules on small trees, but this abundantly fertile colony was growing on a very large branch high on the hillside. Cryphaea heteromalla in Devon woodland. #moss #bryophytes

Broad-leaved Brook-Moss - Platyhypnum duriusculum New to me iNat AI didn't really stand a chance with this one since it's not commonly reported. Fortunately I already knew which family to check.

Sphagnum lindbergii #moss ##bryophyte

One of the great things about early season mountain botany, is that when the plants aren't so lush you can enjoy looking at the bryophytes with fewer distractions! Two lovely ones here - Bryum alpinum and one of the Anthelia snow-bed liverworts 😍

Fontinalis dalecarlica New to me Very similar to F. antipyretica, but with monomorphic concave leaves as opposed to polymorphic keeled leaves. This genus of moss is often considered the largest mosses to exist since their branches can grow to most of a meter in length.

Sphagnum subfulvum #moss ##bryophyte

Sphagnum beothuk and austinii ##moss #bryophyte

Mustn’t leave my TG6 at home next time. Flora’s Daltonia possibly the find of the week and a new VC record. Cynodontium jenneri was a nice find on Ben Ledi, Aneura mirabilis more exciting than it looks and I’ve never seen so much Blindia acuta. @bbsbryology.bsky.social

And now for some quality pics courtesy of Neil Bell from Stob a’Choin; Bartramia halleriana, Plagiopus oederianus, Herbertus hutchinsiae & Racomitrium ellipticum

Mueller's Pouchwort - Calypogeia muelleriana New to me? It's often treated as "the usual" Calypogeia but it took three Calypogeia samples to find one and prove it (blurrily). First two were C. neogaea.

Common Apple Moss - Bartramia pomiformis I once got very confused by this moss. My field guide had a "usually" character about its sporangia to distinguish it from Plagiopus oederianus which wasn't very reliable as it turns out. Finding a source that used leaf characteristics eventually clarified it

Yellow Yarn Moss - Claopodium rostratum If growing moss at home were a common thing I think this one would be popular in cultivation. It's just so perfect looking. Almost too perfect.

Pale Liverwort - Chiloscyphus pallescens This and its cousin P. polyanthos tend to grow in side channels with shallow water flow.

Bryophytes along the old cut of the canal near Coldwaltham in Sussex. Leucodon sciuroides, Syntrchia laevipila and Scleropodium cespitans

Silky Forklet-Moss - Dicranella heteromalla I have a bad habit of thinking this is just a smaller Dicranum moss than usual. Based on the genus name I'm not alone on this, as the suffix -ella generally indicates smallness in botany.

Had a great week in the Trossachs with the @bbsbryology.bsky.social Thanks very much to Philippa Thompson and all of those who contributed so much. Here are some of my favourites from the week (1/2)

Windswept Broom Moss is one of my favourite names for Dicranum scoparium. I’d only seen small patches before, then suddenly a whole woodland bank covered in it… and this time, fruiting. Devon, near Teignmouth last week tinyurl.com/dicranum-sco... #moss #bryophytes

Campylopus introflexus (heath star-moss). Female plants with capsules and male plants with perigonium (last image). Location and habitat: on dry and exposed soil, in a shrubland of Erica scoparia, E. arborea, Arbutus unedo and Pinus pinea, near Llagostera (province of Girona). #mosses #bryophytes

I think this lovely moss in dappled sunshine is likely Fox-tail Feathermoss (Thamnobryum alopecurum). A separated shoot has a dark stem and looks very like a miniature tree. This week in Devon. tinyurl.com/thamnobryum-... #moss #bryophyte

I think this leafy liverwort is likely Wall Scalewort (Porella platyphylla). Found growing on a large limestone rock in Devon this week. tinyurl.com/porella-plat... #bryophyte #liverwort

Killarney Fern (Vandenboschia speciosa) from a wooded glen in Co. Tyrone today. Gametophyte being locally frequent forming colonies up to 1m^2. Sporophytes also present in ~relatively~ open conditions. What a treat! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiireland.bsky.social

The wavy leaves of Common Smoothcap (Atrichum undulatum) catching the sun this week. Growing on a thin layer of soil over limestone on a Devon bank. tinyurl.com/atrichum-undulatum #moss #bryophyte

Sphagnum pulchrum and lindbergii #moss #bryophyte

Sphagnum lindbergii portrait #moss #bryophyte

Capsules of Lophocolea heterophylla. Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #liverworts #wątrobowce #Marchantiophyta #Bryophytes #mszaki #bryology

Another great moss from yesterday; ID by Sue, a Sussex Bryo recorder. Plenogemma (previous Ulota) phyllantha. Frizzed Pincushion; with brown gemmae (asexual reproductive structures), next to the lichen Punctelia jeckeri (my ID, so may be wrong). A good lichen-bryophyte combo is a thing of wonder.

"EPHEMERUM CF. SERRATUM with its persistent protonema, seen yesterday in the floodplain meadows of the Cap de Creus Natural Park. Provisional stack of 108 photos, at 6X"

The @bbsbryology.bsky.social describes Bazzania trilobata as "big, blowsy and very beautiful" and notes that it dessicates fast due to it being one of the largest of our leafy liverworts. So I gave some at Eridge Rocks a drink from my water bottle. (Before left, after right) #BonkersForBryophytes

Calypogeia sphagnicola, found snuggled in deep in some Sphagnum fuscum hummocks!

Henllan Falls, Afon Teifi, Ceredigion/Sir Gar. 📷 18.04.26 #WaterfallWednesday #scape #LandscapePhotography #PhotographersofBlueSky

Bloody-nosed beetle on Hart’s-tongue fern. Nowhere else to plod to and it cannot fly. Timarcha tenebricosa on Asplenium scolopendrium. #beetles #insects #ferns #nature

I think this might be Heath Star-moss (Campylopus introflexus), growing on a soil bank. At the top edge of a Devon woodland today. tinyurl.com/campylopus-i... #moss #bryophytes

Yesterday's oasis in the top of the wall caught some precious raindrops. Devon today. #moss #bryophytes

Supposed to be keeping an eye on our stall at a car boot on Sunday…but was distracted by my first Spearmoss. I think this is Pointed Spearmoss (Calliergonella cuspidata) from Exeter Racecourse. tinyurl.com/calliergonel... #moss #bryophyte

I think this glorious chaos is Bonfire-moss (Funaria hygrometrica). Some young green capsules are still sitting, hood attached, within a small ‘bulb’ of leaves at the base of the shoots, before the seta elongates. On a bonfire site in Devon, today. tinyurl.com/funaria-hygr... #moss #bryophyte

I noticed this rounded liverwort on a recently felled tree. In my area it is likely to be Even Scalewort (Radula complanata). Devon at the weekend. #liverwort #bryophyte

I think this is Bird’s-claw Beard-moss (Barbula unguiculata), growing on very sandy soil. The colony covers the path, its setae giving it a golden cast as it is trodden daily at this time of year by hundreds of us. Dawlish Warren this week. #moss #bryophyte

Excited to find my first forkmoss. Very surprised to see it on the edge of a sand dune, right where the grassy scrubland gives way. Broom Forkmoss (Dicranum scoparium), Dawlish Warren, Devon, yesterday. tinyurl.com/dicranum-sco... #moss #bryophyte