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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Thuidium tamariscinum - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/ttamaris.htm

This is an abundant species on hedgerow banks as well as on the ground in woodlands. With its regular, tripinnate branching and triangular overall shape it somewhat resembles a small fern, or a feather.

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Helodium blandowii - English
URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/~korpela/helodium_blandowii.html

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Splachnum rubrum (Tnx Aune Koponen) - Finnish
URL: http://honeybee.helsinki.fi/users/korpela/splachnum_sp.html

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Splachnum luteum - English
URL: http://honeybee.helsinki.fi/users/korpela/splachnum_sp_3.jpg

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Splachnum luteum - English
URL: http://honeybee.helsinki.fi/users/korpela/splachnum_sp_2.jpg

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Sematophyllum demissum - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/sdemiss.htm

This is an extremely rare moss in the UK, and its few known sites are in North Wales woodlands. It occurs as continuous mats on the flat surfaces of boulders subject to some water flow.

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Blindia acuta - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/blacuta.htm

A frequent moss on wet rock ledges in the uplands of Wales, as well as on small rocks in flushes or rivulets. The leaves are a dull green in colour, are rather small and narrow, tapering to fine points.

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Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus - English
URL: http://honeybee.helsinki.fi/users/korpela/rhytidiadelphus_triquetrus.html

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/rtriquet.htm

This is a relatively large, bushy-looking moss, conspicuously pale-green in colour. The reddish stems grow erect and have frequent short branches. The leaves are triangular, with a double-nerve. A widespread moss, as well as in dunes it also grows abundantly in certain types of broad-leaf woodland.

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Rhytidiadelphus loreus - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/rloreus.htm

This moss can be abundant on the ground in woodlands, and is distinguished by a reddish stem, with the leaves having the appearance of being swept to one side of the stem and branches (secund). It is related to the moss most commonly found in lawns - Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus - and to Rhytidialdelphus triquetrus.

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Plagiothecium undulatum - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/ptundul.htm

This moss has a flattened ("complanate") appearance, and is pale-green to almost white in colour. Each leaf is crinkled, or undulate, which helps to distinguish this from related species. It grows on the ground or on tree bases in woods.

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Plagiothecium nemorale - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/pnemoral.htm

A moss of earth banks, tree-bases and streamsides in woodlands and hedgerows, this has a flattened (complanate) appearance but rather less so than the previous species, is a darker green, and lacks the transverse undulations of the leaves. The leaves are ovate, tapering to an acute tip, and have a double nerve to just under half their length.

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Zygodon conoideus - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/zconoid.htm

This small epiphytic moss occurs most frequently on tree species with a nutrient-rich, fairly basic, rough-textured bark, in particular elder and ash. Its leaves are longly ovate and pointed, with a clear nerve.

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Ulota crispa - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/ulota.htm

his is a very common species on the branches of trees and shrubs in Wales. It forms neat, rounded cushions usually with abundant capsules. The leaves are long and narrow, with a nerve running their entire length, and are characteristically curled and crisped when dry . The immature capsules are capped with a notably hairy cap or "calyptra".

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Orthotrichum anomalum - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/oanomal.htm

This is the commonest rock species of Orthotrichum and grows on base-rich rocks (such as Carboniferous limestone) and artificial walls, buttresses etc., usually in exposed situations. It forms neat dark-green cushions with abundant capsules projecting only a little distance from the cushions, on short setae.

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Leptodon smithii - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/lsmithii.htm

A moss which grows on tree boles and trunks in woods, but also in more open situations such as parklands and hedgerows. It is common in Mediterranean countries, and in Southern England, but in Wales is at the edge of its European range. It is recorded post-1950 in only three 10km squares in Wales.

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Plagiomnium undulatum - Finnish
URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/~korpela/plagiomnium_undulatum.html

Plagiomnium undulatum, from Yrttikorpi in Somero SW Finland

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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Mnium hornum - English
URL: http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/mhornum.htm

This is a common moss in a wide variety of habitats, and in woodlands it is often abundant, on banks, on tree bases and on rocks. Its leaves are more or less parallel for most of their length, tapering to a point at their tip.

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Paludella squarrosa - Finnish
URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/~korpela/paludella_squarrosa.html

Paludella squarrosa, from Huppiovuoren letto, an eutrofic fen in Orivesi SW Finland.

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Paludella squarrosa - English
URL: http://honeybee.helsinki.fi/users/korpela/paludella_squarrosa2.jpg

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