My Front Yard

The stress of finals week has hit me and I was too sick to get out into the woods this week, so I stumbled out into my front yard and got to know some of the mosses in my yard just a little bit better.

I love the Dicranum that grows on my old Douglas-fir stump, so I took a picture of it first. Then I moved over to my camellia bushes and took a picture of the psudeoscleropodum moss growing there. Then I stumbled into my driveway and took a picture of the bryum argentium growing in my car. On the way back in I took a picture of a mystery moss growing on cinder rocks under my rhody.

The air was cold and the sky was overcast. People outside where playing football and whooping it up in Spanish. Then the rains came, I went inside and the soccer players went home.

Now my fingers itch from touching my yard shrub that I have named Jabba the Hut. I don’t know what it is but I need to get someone to cut half of it down because it caught on fire last year and the top half is dead and unsightly. But whenever I touch that shrub I get a rash.

It was nice to meet some of the mosses in my yard this quarter, there are still many mosses in my yard that I have not identified. It might be a fun project to survey my entire yard and record what bryophytes I find.

Publicado el lunes, 05 de marzo de 2012 a las 12:32 AM por mossy mossy

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mossy

Fecha

Marzo 2012

Descripción

This pretty Dicranum grows on a Douglas-fir stump in my yard. I finally got around to dissecting it this week and now know that its species is scoparium.

It grows at the base of the stump in the shade of two houses an ornamental spruce and two huge camellia bushes.

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mossy

Fecha

Marzo 4, 2012

Descripción

This moss is a relative new comer to North America. It is native to Europe. In Europe it is used for packing material when mailing items. It is believe that this moss came to North America via the mail.

In North America it is said to grow exclusivly in urban yards. This is not true as it also grows on the side walks.

I hope this moss invades and takes over my entire lawn so I won't have to mow it anymore.

Pseudoscleropodium purum in the Pacific Northwest
Elva Lawton
The Bryologist , Vol. 63, No. 4 (Winter, 1960), pp. 235-237
Published by: American Bryological and Lichenological Society
Article Stable URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.cals.evergreen.edu/stable/3240561

A European Feather Moss, Pseudoscleropodium purum, Naturalized Widely in New York State in Cemeteries
Norton G. Miller and Norman Trigoboff
The Bryologist , Vol. 104, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 98-103
Published by: American Bryological and Lichenological Society
Article Stable URL: http://0-www.jstor.org.cals.evergreen.edu/stable/3244919

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Musgo Plateado (Bryum argenteum)

Autor

mossy

Fecha

Marzo 4, 2012

Descripción

This grows on my car and it is smaller than most Bryum argenteum but I belive my ID is correct. I believe it is slightly stunted due to disturbances in the boundary layer created by going to the freeway at 75MPH.

This moss can only grow as high and the plastic bra on the hood of my car. The bra provides a nice niche for moss by giving it a place to hold on, giving it some shade and breaking up the boundary layer.

It also probably helps that this car is mostly parked in the shade on the North side of a house in a river valley where a beautiful temperate rainforest probably used to grow.

If I assume that this moss grew on my car before I bought it, my car has enabled this moss to potential spread west to Neah Bay, Wa, east to Albany NY, North to Spokane and South to somewhere in Texas.

Hmmm.. this moss really has not been very far north.

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mossy

Fecha

Marzo 4, 2012

Descripción

This grows on top of cinder rocks under a purple rhody bush on the north side of my house.

I don't know what it is and I never noticed it before this quarter.

Perhaps it is a Hypnum species. It is a very pretty moss. Maybe I will dissect it later this week.

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