Sphagnaceae
Imbricate Bog-moss
Sphagnum affine Renauld & Cardot
Sphagnum affine (imbricate bogmoss) is a yellowish peat moss harvested for commercial peat products.
Northern Peatmoss
Sphagnum capillifolium (Ehrh.) Hedw.
Sphagnum capillifolium, small red peat moss, is a colored mound-forming moss with specific characteristic leaf structures.
Low Peatmoss
Sphagnum compactum DC.
Sphagnum compactum, or compact bogmoss, is a cosmopolitan moss species from the Sphagnaceae family.
toothed peatmoss
Sphagnum cuspidatum Ehrh. ex Hoffm.
Sphagnum cuspidatum is a moderately sized dioecious peat moss with distinct growth forms and a range of human uses.
Fringed Bogmoss
Sphagnum fimbriatum Wilson
Sphagnum fimbriatum is a genetically cohesive, widely distributed pioneer bog moss that colonises young early-successional wetlands.
Brown Peatmoss
Sphagnum fuscum (Schimp.) H.Klinggr.
Sphagnum fuscum is a circumpolar peat moss that forms bog hummocks and has various research and historical medicinal uses.
Girgensohn's Peatmoss
Sphagnum girgensohnii Russow
Sphagnum girgensohnii is a robust Northern Hemisphere peat moss with specific physical traits and flexible habitat preferences.
Largeleaf Peatmoss
Sphagnum macrophyllum Bernh. ex Brid.
Sphagnum macrophyllum, or largeleaf sphagnum, is a North American peat moss that floats on lakes and ponds.
Prairie Peatmoss
Sphagnum palustre L.
Sphagnum palustre is a common widespread peat moss that can absorb 30x its dry weight in water, with uses in European air quality monitoring.
Papillose Peatmoss
Sphagnum papillosum Lindb.
Sphagnum papillosum is a widespread peat-forming Sphagnum moss with antimicrobial properties used as an alternative to mined peat.
Five-ranked Bogmoss
Sphagnum quinquefarium (Lindb.) Warnst.
Sphagnum quinquefarium is a medium-sized peat moss with distinct three spreading branches per fascicle, found in oceanic humid regions.
Recurved Peatmoss
Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.
Sphagnum recurvum is a moss species in the Sphagnaceae family, native to Eurasia and America.
Russow's Peatmoss
Sphagnum russowii Warnst.
Sphagnum russowii (Russow's sphagnum/Russow's bogmoss) is a Holarctic-distributed species of peat moss.
Crome Sphagnum
Sphagnum squarrosum Crome
Sphagnum squarrosum, or spiky bog-moss, is a widely distributed, highly dispersible adaptive peat moss of the Northern Hemisphere.
Orange Peatmoss
Sphagnum subsecundum Nees
Slender cow-horn bog-moss is a Sphagnaceae moss that names a widespread wetland species complex, and the species itself grows in Europe, eastern North America and North African Tunisia.
Rigid Bog-moss
Sphagnum teres (Schimp.) Ångstr. ex C.Hartm.
Sphagnum teres is a medium-sized peat moss widespread across temperate and polar Northern Hemisphere, growing in minerotrophically fed peatlands and fens.
Wulf's Peatmoss
Sphagnum wulfianum Girg.
Sphagnum wulfianum is a distinctive medium-sized circumboreal boreal moss with unique morphological traits.
Lustrous Bog-moss
Sphagnum subnitens Russow & Warnst.
Sphagnum subnitens is an almost cosmopolitan moss species in the family Sphagnaceae.
Red Peatmoss
Sphagnum rubellum Wilson
Sphagnum rubellum is a small circumboreal peat moss with diagnostic morphological traits and specific oceanic open bog habitat preferences.
Fen Peatmoss
Sphagnum warnstorfii Russow
Sphagnum warnstorfii is a widely distributed Northern Hemisphere peat moss with intermediate sensitivity to the herbicide Asulam.
central sphagnum moss
Sphagnum centrale C.E.O.Jensen
Sphagnum centrale is a cosmopolitan pale green moss of the Sphagnaceae family that never turns red.
Austin's Sphagnum
Sphagnum austinii Sull.
Sphagnum austinii, or Austin's sphagnum, is a Sphagnaceae moss found in North America and Northern Europe.
Magellanic Peatmoss
Sphagnum magellanicum Brid.
Sphagnum magellanicum is a distinctive bog moss with red-purple leaf coloring that forms low cushions and mats.
Cow-horn Bog-moss
Sphagnum denticulatum Brid.
Sphagnum denticulatum is a Sphagnaceae moss widely distributed in Europe, known to be sensitive to the herbicide Asulam.
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