family
Brachytheciaceae
Brachytheciaceae
Field notes
Brachytheciaceae is a family of mosses from the order Hypnales. The family includes over 40 genera and 250 species.
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- Brachythecium 5 native
- Homalothecium Mosses 3 native
- Scleropodium Moss 2 native
- Claopodium Mosses 2 native
- Sciuro-hypnum 1 native
- Kindbergia 1 native
- Bryoandersonia 1 native
- Rhynchostegium 1 native
- Eurhynchiastrum 1 native
- Brachytheciastrum 1 native
- Cirriphyllum 1 native
- Palamocladium 1 native
- Rhynchostegiella
- Homalotheciella
- Bryhnia
- Scorpiurium
- Oxyrrhynchium
- Myuroclada
- Steerecleus
- Platyhypnidium
- Eurhynchium
- Pseudoscleropodium
- Microeurhynchium
Range
Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided
Top native Brachytheciaceae All
Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Rough-stalked Feather-moss
Brachythecium rutabulum
food
1
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Spoon-leaved Moss
Bryoandersonia illecebra
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Common Feather-moss
Kindbergia praelonga
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Waterside Feather Moss
Brachythecium rivulare
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Obtuseleaf Scleropodium Moss
Scleropodium obtusifolium
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Platyhypnidium Moss
Rhynchostegium riparioides
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Whitish Feather-moss
Brachythecium albicans
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Glasswort Feather-moss
Scleropodium touretii
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Velvet Feather-moss
Brachytheciastrum velutinum
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Smooth-stalk Feather-moss
Brachythecium salebrosum
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Rusty Ragged Moss
Sciuro-hypnum plumosum
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Elegant Beaked Moss
Eurhynchiastrum pulchellum
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Pinnatifid Homalothecium Moss
Homalothecium aureum
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Cold Brachythecium Moss
Brachythecium frigidum
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Whipple's Claopodium Moss
Claopodium whippleanum