Pleurozium schreberi (Schreber’s moss)

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Pleurozium schreberi (Brid.) Mitt.

Schreber’s moss, feather moss, red-stemmed feather moss, Schreber’s big red stem moss

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Calliergon schreberi (Brid.) Mitt.
Calliergonella schreberi (Brid.) Grout
Calliergonella schreberi (Brid.) Grout var. tananae (Grout) Grout
Pleurozium schreberi (Brid.) Mitt. var. tananae (Grout) Wijk & Margad.

The red-ribbed yellow green moss is the Pleurozium. · 9/29/2010 · Nashua River Rail Trail, Ayer, Massachusetts · ≈ 6 × 4″ (15 × 10 cm)

8/28/2020 · Jack’s and Litchfield Trails, Chase Reserve, Brunswick, Maine · ≈ 5 × 3½″ (13 × 9.2 cm)

9/18/2016 · Barred Island Preserve, Deer Isle, Maine ID is uncertain

4/19/2021 · Center Pond Preserve, Phippsburg, Maine · ≈ 6 × 4″ (14 × 10 cm)

9/29/2010 · Nashua River Rail Trail, Ayer, Massachusetts · ≈ 5 × 3½″ (13 × 9.2 cm)

4/13/2013 · Pearl Hill State Park, Townsend, Massachusetts · ≈ 8 × 5″ (19 × 13 cm)

9/29/2013 · South Bubble Hike, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine · ≈ 4 × 4½″ (10 × 12 cm)

4/3/2021 · Tarbox Preserve, Topsham, Maine · ≈ 10 × 6″ (24 × 16 cm)

8/28/2020 · Jack’s and Litchfield Trails, Chase Reserve, Brunswick, Maine · ≈ 5 × 3½″ (13 × 8.7 cm)

3/16/2025 · Anna M. Tondreau Preserve, Harpswell, Maine · ≈ 5 × 3″ (12 × 8.5 cm)

10/23/2016 · Georgetown, Massachusetts · ≈ 7 × 4½″ (18 × 12 cm)

4/11/2013 · Nashua River Rail Trail, Groton Center, Groton, Massachusetts · ≈ 9 × 6″ (22 × 14 cm)

10/23/2016 · Georgetown, Massachusetts · ≈ 6 × 4″ (14 × 11 cm)

9/30/2013 · Moose Point State Park, Searsport, Maine · ≈ 7 × 4½″ (18 × 12 cm)

4/3/2021 · Tarbox Preserve, Topsham, Maine · ≈ 7 × 4½″ (18 × 12 cm)

9/18/2016 · Barred Island Preserve, Deer Isle, Maine

9/29/2013 · South Bubble Hike, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine · ≈ 4½ × 5″ (12 × 12 cm)

8/28/2020 · Jack’s and Litchfield Trails, Chase Reserve, Brunswick, Maine · ≈ 6 × 4″ (14 × 10 cm)

10/10/2021 · 88 Wilderness Lane, Norway, Maine · ≈ 4 × 2½″ (10 × 7 cm)

4/6/2021 · Otter Brrok Preserve, Harpswell Heritage Land Trust, Harpswell, Maine · ≈ 6 × 4″ (14 × 10 cm)

11/21/2023 · Merritt Mountain, Phippsburg, Maine

10/20/2023 · Schiller Coastal Studies Center, Orr’s Island, Maine

10/10/2021 · 88 Wilderness Lane, Norway, Maine · ≈ 4 × 2½″ (10 × 7 cm)

5/16/2023 · Hamilton Audubon Sanctuary, Blue Trail, West Bath, Maine

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	Hypnales	An order of Bryophyta or leafy mosses
Family	Hylocomiaceae	From Greek hylokomos, ”forest-inhabiting“
Genus	Pleurozium
Species	schreberi	After German naturalist and physician Johann Christian Daniel Von Schreber (1739-1810). He studied medicine, theology and natural history at Halle in Germany and Uppsala in Sweden under Carl von Linné and received his MD degree in 1760. He became a practicing physician and then after studying botany in Berlin a professor of medicine and botany at Erlangen in Bavaria in 1770. He was made director of the Erlangen botanical garden in 1773 and became professor of natural history in 1776. He was the editor of the 8th edition of Linné’s Genera Plantarum (1789–1791), was chosen as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1787, and knighted in 1791

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Pleurozium schreberi description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.