SAN FRANCISCO -- A volunteer team at the California Academy of Sciences has reached a milestone in its research collection. The academy now has more than 100,000 specimens of a plant group called ...

Large mammals and exotic plants get all the attention, and conservation efforts are often directed at protecting them. Who who protects our mosses? This often-neglected group of non-vascular lower ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Our bryophyte collection contains moss and liverwort specimens (56,000 accessioned with about 100,000 currently being cataloged) collected world-wide. About 25% of the collection is from the Americas, ...

Once thought of as a nuisance, moss is now being recognized for its contributions in creating healthy, low-maintenance, and ...

What comes to your mind when you think of moss? Do these small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto transport you to an enchanted forest in a fairytale, or ...

The aquatic moss vegetation in 69 originally low-alkaline, shallow pools and lakes in The Netherlands is related to the physico-chemical condition of the water and the morphometric characteristics and ...

Bryhnia graminicolor (Brid.) Grout is reported new to the state of Texas. A distribution map of B. graminicolor is provided for the south central states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, ...

A major question in evolutionary biology is how mating patterns affect the fitness of offspring. However, in animals and seed plants it is virtually impossible to investigate the effects of specific ...

Planning a moss garden? It’s as easy as waiting for the courier to deliver a box in which fabric sheets of dormant moss are rolled between corrugated cardboard. Then, says Bryophyta Technologies owner ...