Tuesday 28 January 2014

Most common mosses by Vice County

The following mosses are in every British (all 112) and Irish (all 40) vice county, including VC300, which I assume is offshore but I don't know what it is. It may refer to the Channel Islands, which I see referred to as VC113 somewhere else. These are taken from the Census spreadsheet of 2013.

My thinking is that as a beginner the first task should be to learn these, and I have come across most of them at least in a very short time - seems like a reasonable foundation for spotting the less common ones and being able to contrast and compare.

(note there are 361 species - moss only - in VC85 in the census)


Species # of vice counties
1 Amblystegium serpens var. serpens * 153
2 Atrichum undulatum var. undulatum 153
3 Aulacomnium palustre 153
4 Barbula convoluta 153
5 Barbula unguiculata * 153
6 Brachythecium rutabulum * 153
7 Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum * 153
8 Bryum argenteum * 153
9 Bryum capillare * 153
10 Bryum dichotomum * 153
11 Bryum pseudotriquetrum * 153
12 Calliergonella cuspidata * 153
13 Campylopus introflexus * 153
14 Campylopus pyriformis 153
15 Ceratodon purpureus 153
16 Cratoneuron filicinum 153
17 Ctenidium molluscum var. molluscum 153
18 Dicranella heteromalla * 153
19 Dicranella varia 153
20 Dicranum scoparium * 153
21 Didymodon rigidulus * 153
22 Eurhynchium striatum * 153
23 Fissidens taxifolius var. taxifolius * 153
24 Fontinalis antipyretica var. antipyretica 153
25 Funaria hygrometrica 153
26 Grimmia pulvinata * 153
27 Homalothecium sericeum * 153
28 Hypnum cupressiforme var. cupressiforme * 153
29 Hypnum cupressiforme var. resupinatum 153
30 Hypnum jutlandicum * 153
31 Isothecium alopecuroides 153
32 Isothecium myosuroides var. myosuroides 153
33 Kindbergia praelonga * 153
34 Mnium hornum * 153
35 Neckera complanata * 153
36 Orthotrichum anomalum * 153
37 Orthotrichum diaphanum * 153
38 Plagiomnium undulatum * 153
39 Pleurozium schreberi 153
40 Polytrichastrum formosum * 153
41 Polytrichum commune var. commune * 153
42 Pseudoscleropodium purum * 153
43 Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus * 153
44 Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus * 153
45 Thamnobryum alopecurum * 153
46 Thuidium tamariscinum * 153
47 Tortula muralis * 153
48 Zygodon viridissimus var. viridissimus * 153

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