Dicranum polysetum (Wind-blown moss)

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Dicranum polysetum Sw.

Wind-blown moss, fork moss, dicranum moss

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Dicranum rugosum (Funck) Hoffm. ex Brid.
Dicranum undulatum Ehrh. ex F. Weber & D. Mohr， non Brid.

9/3/2025 · Loring Conant Preserve, Georgetown, Maine · ≈ 10 × 6″ (24 × 16 cm)

9/17/2013 · Andres Institute of Art, Big Bear Mountain, Brookline, New Hampshire · ≈ 6 × 4″ (16 × 10 cm)

9/3/2025 · Loring Conant Preserve, Georgetown, Maine · ≈ 10 × 6″ (24 × 16 cm)

9/29/2013 · Compass Harbor, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine · ≈ 7 × 4½″ (18 × 12 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Division	Bryophyta	Mosses
Subdivision	Musci	Mosses (all 12,000 of them)
Class	Bryopsida	Mosses with arthrodontous spore capsules, which is most of them
Subclass	Bryidae	Mosses with a double peristome with alternating tooth segments
Order	Dicranales	An order of haplolepideous mosses, having only one circle of teeth from a column of cells
Family	Dicranaceae	From Greek dicranon, ”pitchfork,“ alluding to peristome teeth
Genus	Dicranum	From Greek dicranon, ”pitchfork,“ alluding to peristome teeth
Species	polysetum

Dicranum polysetum description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.