1 Quart Spoon-leaved Bryoandersonia Live Moss Terrarium Vivarium Fairy Garden

Description: Picked the day of purchase. 1 Quart Bag of Spoon-leaved Bryoandersonia Live Moss Terrarium Vivarium Fairy Garden. Description: This evergreen perennial moss has a pleurocarpous growth habit, forming either a sprawling mat of overlapping leafy stems, or a low cushion of ascending to erect leafy stems. These leafy stems are up to 4 cm. (1") long, irregularly branched, more or less terete, and blunt-tipped. The stems are hidden by the abundant overlapping leaves; the leaves occur all around the stems, providing them with a worm-like appearance. When they are moist, the leaves are ascending and spread slightly from each other, while dry leaves are more appressed together. However, the difference in appearance between moist and dry leafy stems is minor. Individual leaves are 1.52 mm. long, ovate to broadly ovate in shape, and largely toothless along their margins, although under microscopic examination minute teeth can be observed along the margins at the leaf tips. The leaves have a shallow cup-shape because they are convex along the outer surface and convex along the inner surface. Leaf coloration can be highly variable, even on the same leafy stems; younger leaves are light green to yellowish green, while older leaves are golden brown to dark brown. The leaves strongly clasp the stems at their bases, while their tips are slender and often twisted. Range & Habitat: The native Spoon-leaved Moss (Bryoandersonia illecebra) is occasional in east-central and southern Illinois, while in the rest of the state it is uncommon or absent (see Distribution Map). Illinois lies along the NW range-limit of this moss; it is widely distributed in eastern United States, while in Canada it occurs in southern Ontario as a rare plant. In Illinois, habitats include rocky soil in woodlands, moist soil in sandy woodlands, wooded slopes, ground soil of wooded ridges and bluff tops, areas adjacent to woodland springs and streams, moist rocky slopes along waterfalls, wet sandstone cliffs and boulders, and shaded creek banks. In neighboring states, this moss has been found in moist tallgrass prairies, overgrown shrubby meadows, earthen banks in woods, lower trunks of trees in wet areas, and shaded lawns. In Illinois, this moss seems to prefer higher quality natural areas that have hilly woodlands. An older scientific name of this moss is Cirriphyllum boscii. Other common names of this moss include Spoon Moss and Worm Moss. Unlike most mosses in Illinois, it is endemic to eastern North America. At favorable sites, Spoon-leaved Moss (Bryoandersonia illecebra) can form attractive cushions of plants. Sometimes its leafy stems have abrupt transitions of color from light green to brown, whereas in most pleurocarpous mosses such color transitions are more gradual and less conspicuous. Spoon-leaved Moss can be distinguished from the more common Brachythecium spp. (Foxtail Mosses) by the more dense arrangement of its leaves along its stems. As a result, its leafy stems often have a worm-like appearance, especially when they are dry. This moss superficially resembles another moss, Entodon seductrix, but the leaves of this latter species lack solitary midribs and its spore-bearing capsule bodies are straight, rather than slightly curved. Return

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Location: Arab, Alabama

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