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  3. Mosses
  4. Joint-toothed Mosses
  5. Dicranales
  6. Fissidentaceae
  7. Pocket Mosses

genus

Pocket Mosses

Fissidens

Includes
5 native 13 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Fissidens is the only genus of haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) in the family Fissidentaceae. It contains over 480 species.

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  • Common Pocket-moss present
  • Lesser Pocket-moss native
  • Rock Pocket-moss present
  • Maidenhair Pocket Moss native
  • Water Pocket Moss present
  • Large-leaved Pocket Moss native
  • Osmund Fissidens Moss native
  • Fissidens megalotis
  • Pygmy Pocket-Moss present
  • Bush's Fissidens Moss
  • Herzog's Pocket-moss
  • Asplenium Fissidens Moss
  • Green Pocket-moss
  • Blunt Pocket Moss
  • Tree Pocket Moss
  • Short-leaved Pocket-moss
  • Narrow-leaved Pocket-moss
  • Petty Pocket-moss
  • Fissidens Moss
  • Portuguese Pocket-moss
  • Many-leaved Pocket-moss
  • Polypody Fissidens Moss
  • Fissidens Moss
  • Fissidens nobilis

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native pocket mosses All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Lesser Pocket-moss Fissidens bryoides
  • Maidenhair Pocket Moss Fissidens adianthoides
  • Large-leaved Pocket Moss Fissidens grandifrons
  • Osmund Fissidens Moss Fissidens osmundioides
  • Ravenel's Fissidens Moss Fissidens elegans

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