Annotated Checklist of Liverworts of the Northeast

232 species of which 78 percent are leafy. Notes at bottom

 

Anastrophyllum hellerianum = Crossocalyx hellerianus

Anastrophyllum michauxii • CT NB NS QC • rock, sandy soil, decaying logs especially Thuja

Anastrophyllum minutum = Sphenolobus minutus var weberi

Anastrophyllum saxicola = Sphenolobus saxicola

Aneura maxima EXCLUDEDAneura sharpii in the East

Aneura pinguis • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC VT • ;array of moist to wet habitats

Aneura sharpii • CT ME • shaded soil or rocks, most often near water

Anthelia juratzkana • NB QC ME NH • moist north facing slopes; alpine

Anthoceros macounii • CT ME NH NS QC • moist bare soil

Anthoceros punctatus • CT MA NH NS VT • moist bare soil

Apometzgeria pubescens = Metzgeria pubescens

Apopellia endiviifolia • ME NB NH NS QC VT • wet substrates; calciophile

Apopellia megaspora • MA NH QC • wet substrates; calciophile

Archilejeunea clypeata = Cheilolejeunea clypeata

Asperifolia arguta = Asperifolia sullivantii in NA

Asperifolia sullivantii • CT MA ME NH NS RI • moist shaded sites on soil or rock, especially along streams

Asterella tenella • CT MA ME NH QC RI VT • soil over rocks near streams

Athalamia hyalina = Clevea hyalina

 

Barbilophozia atlantica = Orthocaulis atlanticus

Barbilophozia attenuata = Neoorthocaulis attenuatus

Barbilophozia barbata • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • rock, soil, or peaty depressions

Barbilophozia binsteadii = Neoorthocaulis binsteadii

Barbilophozia floerkei = Neoorthocaulis floerkei

Barbilophozia hatcheri • NS QC ME NH • rock particularly under Picea, Abies

Barbilophozia kunzeana = Schljakovia kunzeana

Barbilophozia lycopodioides • NS QC • well drained humus or rock

Barbilophozia sudetica • QC CT MA ME NH VT • rock outcrops, soil, among bryophytes, both xeric and mesic

Bazzania denudata • NS QC CT ME VT • decaying wood, humus, soil over rock in moist shaded habitats

Bazzania pearsonii • ME • historically from alpine Katahdin

Bazzania tricrenata • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • rocky mesic substrates but not in full sun

Bazzania trilobata • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • soil in primarily coniferous forests

Blasia pusilla • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • soil in disturbed sites

Blepharostoma trichophyllum • CT ME VT NH QC NS NB • moist decaying logs and vertical rocks predominantly in forests

 

Calypogeia arguta = Asperifolia sullivantii in NA

Calypogeia azurea • CT ME NB NS VT • moist rock, soil, decaying logs; subalpine acidophile

Calypogeia fissa EXCLUDEDCalypogeia neogaea in North America

Calypogeia integristipula • QC NB NS MA ME NH VT • decaying wood or moist soil in cedar swamps or in peat bogs

Calypogeia muelleriana • NS NB QC CT MA ME NH VT • soil, humus, rocks of moist sites

Calypogeia neesiana • QC NS NB MA VT NH ME CT • acid, organic soils

Calypogeia neogaea • QC NB NS ME NH VT MA CT RI • moist, shaded soil

Calypogeia sphagnicola • QC NS ME VT CT NH RI MA • among Sphagnum in bogs

Calypogeia suecica • NS NH VT ME • decaying wood in conifer forests

Calypogeia sullivantii = Asperifolia sullivantii

Calypogeia trichomanis EXCLUDED nom. rej. = Calypogeia muelleriana

Calypogeja = Calepogeia

Cephalozia ambigua • QC ME NH • acidic rock

Cephalozia bicuspidata • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • acidic rock, peaty or sandy soil, decorticated logs

Cephalozia bicuspidata subsp ambigua = Cephalozia ambigua

Cephalozia bicuspidata subsp lammersiana = Cephalozia bicuspidata

Cephalozia catenulata = Fuscocephaloziopsis catenulata

Cephalozia connivens = Fuscocephaloziopsis connivens

Cephalozia leucantha = Fuscocephaloziopsis leucantha

Cephalozia loitlesbergeri = Fuscocephaloziopsis loitlesbergeri

Cephalozia lunulifolia = Fuscocephaloziopsis lunulifolia

Cephalozia macounii • ME NH VT • decaying wood, rare

Cephalozia macrostachya = Fuscocephaloziopsis macrostachya

Cephalozia pleniceps = Fuscocephaloziopsis pleniceps

Cephaloziella arctica = Cephaloziella varians

Cephaloziella byssacea = Cephaloziella divaricata

Cephaloziella divaricata • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • rock, sand, soil, logs, Sphagnum

Cephaloziella elachista • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • in Sphagnum

Cephaloziella elegans • QC ME VT • thin soil over rock

Cephaloziella hampeana • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • organic substrates, soil, damp shaded rock

Cephaloziella massalongoi • VT • moist soil, rocky detritus

Cephaloziella rubella • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • variety of substrates, rarely logs or trees

Cephaloziella rubella var bifida • CT VT MA ME • soil, rocks

Cephaloziella rubella var sullivantii • QC NH ME • soil, rocks

Cephaloziella spinicaulis • CT MA • damp soil in hardwood forests

Cephaloziella spinigera • NB QC MA ME NH • peat or other bryophytes; fens

Cephaloziella varians • CT ME VT • peat, wet rock; alpine-subalpine

Chandonanthus setiformis = Tetralophozia setiformis

Cheilolejeunea clypeata • CT MA NH RI VT • bark, rock

Chiloscyphus cuspidatus = Lophocolea coadunata

Chiloscyphus minor = Lophocolea minor

Chiloscyphus pallescens • NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • shaded soil, rock, decaying wood near but not in water

Chiloscyphus pallescens var fragilis • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • rock, soil in slow moving streams or shallow pools

Chiloscyphus polyanthos • NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • soil over rock at edges of streams and ponds in shaded sites

Chiloscyphus polyanthos var rivularis • MA ME NB NS • submerged in streams subject to seasonal drying

Chiloscyphus profundus = Lophocolea heterophylla

Cladopodiella fluitans = Odontoschisma fluitans

Cladopodiella francisci = Odontoschisma francisci

Cladoradula tenax • CT MA ME NH RI VT • rock, trees in humid forested sites

Clevea hyalina • VT • thin mineral soil over rock, open ground, ledges, tucked under boulders; alpine

Cololejeunea biddlecomiae • CT MA ME NB NH NS VT • bark

Conocephalum conicum EXCLUDEDConocephalum salebrosum in North America

Conocephalum salebrosum • CT MA ME NB NH RI QC VT • moist soil, rocks

Crossocalyx hellerianus • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC VT • decaying Betula or Tsuga

 

Diplophyllum albicans • ME NB NS • logs, trees, rock in shaded humid habitats

Diplophyllum apiculatum • CT MA ME RI VT • soil, rock in moist shaded habitats

Diplophyllum taxifolium • CT ME NB NH NS VT • rock, soil banks, humus often along streams in shaded habitats

Eocalypogeia schusteriana • NH NS QC • soil, rock usually of high pH; rare

Endogemma caespiticia • ON QC VT • exposed soil, roadsides and stream banks, coniferous forest belt

Eremonotus hellerianus = Crossocalyx hellerianus

Eremonotus minutus = Sphenolobus minutus var. weberi

 

Fossombronia cristata = Fossombronia wondraczekii

Fossombronia cristula • CT MA • exposed soil in fields, along paths, stream banks

Fossombronia foveolata • CT MA ME NH NS QC RI VT • exposed soil

Fossombronia foveolata var cristula = Fossombronia cristula

Fossombronia macounii = Fossombronia wondraczekii

Fossombronia wondraczekii • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC VT • moist disturbed soil among bryophytes

Frullania asagrayana • CT MA ME NH NS QCVT • rock,r trees

Frullania austinii • ME NS QC VT • trees, logs, sometimes rock or soil

Frullania bolanderi = Frullania austinii in e NA

Frullania brittoniae • CT MA NH • trees, sometimes rock

Frullania dilatata = Frullania brittoniae

Frullania eboracensis • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • trees, rock

Frullania ericoides • CT • trees, logs, rock, soil

Frullania inflata var communis • QC • tree trunks, rocks

Frullania inflata • CT • trees, rock

Frullania oakesiana • NS QC MA ME NH VT • trees at moderate to high elevations

Frullania plana • CT • rock, sometimes trees

Frullania riparia • NH VT • rock, trees

Frullania selwyniana • NB QC ME NH VT • Thuja

Frullania squarrosa = Frullania ericoides

Frullania tamarisci • NS ME • rocks, trees

Frullania tamarisci subsp. asagrayana = Frullania asagrayana

Fuscocephaloziopsis catenulata • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • decaying wood in shady forested habitats

Fuscocephaloziopsis connivens • NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • moist soil, decaying wood, mires

Fuscocephaloziopsis leucantha • NH NS QC VT • decaying wood, humus, peaty soil

Fuscocephaloziopsis loitlesbergeri • CT MA ME NB NH NS • decaying wood, humus, peaty soil

Fuscocephaloziopsis lunulifolia • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • bogs; decaying wood, among Sphagnum, soil

Fuscocephaloziopsis macrostachya • CT MA ME NH RI VT • bogs; peaty soil, occasionally sandy soil

Fuscocephaloziopsis pleniceps • NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • wet rock peaty soil with Sphagnum

 

Geocalyx graveolens • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC RI VT • organic soil along stream, decaying wood

Gymnocolea acutiloba EXCLUDED not in NE = Gymnocolea inflata subsp acutiloba

Gymnocolea inflata • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC VT • rock subject to at least periodic seepage, often in direct sunlight; also around rock pools

Gymnocolea inflata subsp actutiloba • ME • rock, soil; alpine

Gymnomitrion concinnatum • ME NH QC • rock, soil; alpine

Gymnomitrion corallioides • ME NH • rock, soil; alpine

Gymnomitrium suecicum = Prasanthus suecicus

 

Haplomitrium hookeri • ME NH • moist soil; alpine

Harpanthus drummondii • NS NH VT • moist decaying wood

Harpanthus flotovianus • NB NS NH • wet boreal and montane habitats

Harpanthus scutatus • CT MA ME NB NS NH VT QC RI • decaying wood, moist soil

Herbertus tenuis • NS? • rock

Hygrobiella laxifolia • NB NS QC • wet rock or soil; alpine

 

Isopaches bicrenatus • ME NH NS QC VT • decaying wood in wet dark conifer forest

Jamesoniella autumnalis = Syzygiella autumnalis

Jubula hutchinsiae subsp pennsylvanica • CT MA ME NH NS VT • wet rock, shaded crevices on soil

Jubula pennsylvanica = Jubula hutchinsiae subsp pennsylvanica

Jungermannia atrovirens • NS QC • moist soil, rock near streams

Jungermannia crenuliformis = Solenostoma crenuliforme

Jungermannia eucordifolia • ME QC VT • wet rocks near streams

Jungermannia exsertifolia subsp cordifolia = Jungermannia eucordifolia

Jungermannia gracillima = Solenostoma gracillimum

Jungermannia hyalina = Solenostoma hyalinum

Jungermannia lanceolata = Jungermannia atrovirens

Jungermannia leiantha = Liochlaena lanceolata

Jungermannia pumila • CT MA ME NH NS QC RI VT • moist soil or rock near shaded streams

 

Kurzia makinoana = Kurzia sylvatica in e NA

Kurzia pauciflora • CT MA ME NH NS VT • bogs over Sphagnum

Kurzia setacea = Kurzia pauciflora

Kurzia sylvatica • CT MA ME NH NS RI • rock, soil, other bryophytes in shaded wet areas

 

Leiocolea badensis = Mesoptychia badensis

Leiocolea bantriensis = Mesoptychia bantriensis

Leiocolea collaris = Mesoptychia collaris

Leiocolea gillmanii = Mesoptychia gillmanii

Leiocolea heterocolpos = Mesoptychia heterocolpos

Leiocolea rutheana = Mesoptychia rutheana

Lejeunea biddlecomiae = Cololejeunea biddlecomiae

Lejeunea cavifolia • NB NS CT MA ME NH RI VT • bark, rock, soil; enriched sites

Lejeunea lamacerina subsp gemminata • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC VT • bark, rock; often enriched

Lejeunea patens = Lejeunea lamacerina subsp gemminata in NA

Lejeunea ulicina = Microlejeunea ulicina

Lepidozia reptans • NB NS QC MA ME NH NK RI VT • moist decaying wood, soil; shaded sites

Leucolejeunea clypeata = Cheilolejeunea clypeata

Liochlaena lanceolata • QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • shaded soil; decaying wood; usually in conifer forests

Lophocolea bidentata • NS NB QC CT MA ME VT • moist soil, rocks, decaying wood

Lophocolea coadunata • CT MA • wet rock

Lophocolea cuspidata = Lophocolea coadunata

Lophocolea heterophylla • CT ME MA NB NH NS QC RI VT • moist decaying wood

Lophocolea minor • NB NS QC CT MA ME VT • high pH banks; decaying wood

Lophozia ascendens • NS QC ME NH VT • decaying wood in wet dark conifer forest

Lophozia badensis = Mesoptychia badensis

Lophozia bantriensis = Mesoptychia bantriensis

Lophozia bicrenata = Isopaches bicrenatus

Lophozia binsteadii = Neoorthocaulis binsteadii

Lophozia capitata = Tritomaria capitata

Lophozia collaris = Mesoptychia collaris

Lophozia excisa = Lophoziopsis excisa

Lophozia gillmanii = Mesoptychia gillmanii

Lophozia grandiretis = Schistochilopsis grandiretis

Lophozia guttulata = Lophozia longiflora

Lophozia heterocolpa = Mesoptychia heterocolpos

Lophozia incisa = Schistochilopsis incisa

Lophozia kunzeana = Schljakovia kunzeana

Lophozia laxa = Tritomaria laxa

Lophozia longiflora • QC ME NH • soil, Sphagnum, decaying wood; shaded conifer forests; alpine-subalpine

Lophozia marchica sensu auct. Schust. = Tritomaria laxa

Lophozia longidens = Lophoziopsis longidens

Lophozia longiflora = Lophozia longiflora

Lophozia obtusa = Obtusifolium obtusum

Lophozia porphyroleuca = Lophozia longiflora

Lophozia quinquedentata = Tritomaria quinquedentata

Lophozia rutheana = Mesoptychia rutheana

Lophozia silvicola • NS QC MA ME NH VT • decaying wood, humus, rarely peat; dark conifer forests

Lophozia sudetica = Barbilophozia sudetica

Lophozia ventricosa • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH RI • variety of moist substrates except rock

Lophozia ventricosa var longiflora = Lophozia longiflora

Lophozia wenzelii • QC ME NH • bogs; among Sphagnum or other bryophytes

Lophoziopsis excisa • NS QC CT ME NH RI • in mesic conditions in forested sites, exposed soil, among bryophytes

Lophoziopsis longidens • NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • rocks, soil, decaying wood, among bryophytes; dark coniferous forests

Lunularia cruciata • QC CT MA ME RI VT • in greenhouses

 

Mannia fragrans • QC CT MA VT • exposed, dry, thin soil over rock

Mannia pilosa EXCLUDED not known in New England

Mannia sibirica • VT • rock; alpine

Mannia triandra • CT MA VT • calcareous rock or soil

Marchantia alpestris = Marchantia polymorpha subsp montivagans

Marchantia aquatica = Marchantia polymorpha subsp polymorpha

Marchantia polymorpha subsp montivagans • VT • alpine

Marchantia polymorpha subsp polymorpha • NS QC CT ME • shaded wet soil or rocks on banks of streams and pools, sometimes submerged

Marchantia polymorpha subsp ruderalis • NS NB QC CT MA ME VT NH RI • moist soil or rock

Marchantia quadrata • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC RI VT • calcareous rock or soil

Marsupella aquatica • NS ME NH • swift mountain streams; shallow standing water

Marsupella boeckii • ME • peat or rock; alpine

Marsupella emarginata var aquatica = Marsupella aquatica

Marsupella emarginata • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • pioneer on wet/damp low pH rock

Marsupella polyanthos = Chiloscyphus polyanthos

Marsupella sparsifolia • NS QC NH • damp rock, soil over rock; alpine

Marsupella sphacelata • QC CT MA ME NH VT • rock in streams, rarely submerged

Marsupella sprucei • NS QC ME NH VT • soil over rock, peaty soil; alpine

Marsupella ustulata = Marsupella emarginata

Marsupella ustulata var sprucei = Marsupella sprucei

Mesoptychia badensis • NS QC MA NH VT • calciophile of rock or soil

Mesoptychia bantriensis • QC VT • moist soil or rocks near streams; moderate to high pH

Mesoptychia collaris • NB NS QC MA ME VT NH • alpine

Mesoptychia gillmanii • QC MA ME NH VT • moist to wet high pH rock

Mesoptychia heterocolpos • ME NH VT • wet or moist humus over high pH rock

Mesoptychia rutheana • ME • rich fens, springy swamps; exclusively on high pH substrates

Metacalypogeia schusteriana = Eocalypogeia schusteriana

Metzgeria conjugata • NS NB QC CT MA ME NH VT • rock, bark; humid shaded sites

Metzgeria crassipilis • NS CT ME NH VT • bark, rock; shaded mesic forests

Metzgeria furcata • VT • shaded bark, ledges, humic soil

Metzgeria pubescens • ME NH HY VT • rock, decaying wood, tree bases

Microlejeunea ulicina • NS • bark, rock

Microlepidozia sylvatica = Kurzia sylvatica

Microlepidozia setacea = Kurzia pauciflora

Moerckia flotoviana • NS CT MA ME NH • wet sites over high pH substrates

Moerckia hibernica EXCLUDEDMoerckia flotoviana in the East

Mylia anomala • NS CT ME NH • bogs; peaty soil

Mylia taylori • NS ME NH • rock or rocky crevices with some peat

 

Nardia geoscyphus • NS QC CT MA ME NH • thin soil over rock, peaty soil along streams

Nardia geoscyphus var insecta = Nardia insecta

Nardia insecta • NS ME NH • moist to wet humus or loam; bogs or along streams

Nardia obscura = Solenostoma obscurum

Nardia scalaris • NB NS ME • moist to wet low pH rock; along streams in conifer forests

Neoorthocaulis attenuatus • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • rock, decaying wood

Neoorthocaulis binsteadii • NB NS QC • bogs, peaty depressions; alpine

Neoorthocaulis floerkei • NS QC ME NH VT • humus, rock

Notothylas orbicularis • QC MA CT VT ME NH NS • moist soil

Nowellia curvifolia • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • moist decorticated logs

 

Obtusifolium obtusum • QC ME • among bryophytes in forests, sometimes cliffs

Odontoschisma denudatum • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH VT • moist decaying wood, shaded acid rocks

Odontoschisma elongatum • NS QC MA ME NH • low pH sites; soil, rocky substrates

Odontoschisma fluitans • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • with Sphagnum in bogs

Odontoschisma francisci • NS QC CT MA ME NH RI • low pH, moist, sandy soil

Odontoschisma macounii • NS QC • humus, peat; wet calcareous sites

Odontoschisma prostratum = Odontoschisma sphagni

Odontoschisma sphagni • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH RI VT • Sphagnum, sandy soil, decaying wood; hydric to xeric

Orthocaulis atlanticus • QC ME NH • rock, often calcareous; alpine

Orthocaulis attenuata = Neoorthocaulis attenuatus

Orthocaulis floerkei = Neoorthocaulis floerkei

Orthocaulis kunzeanus = Schljakovia kunzeana

 

Pallavicinia lyellii • CT MA ME NH NB NS RI VT • low pH wet and shady places; along banks of streams, swamps; associated with flowing water

Pedinophyllum interruptum • QC NH • rare; Thuja swamps on the ground among bryophytes, limestone

Pellia endiviifolia = Apopellia endiviifolia

Pellia epiphylla • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC RI VT • wet ground or rock; springy places

Pellia megaspora = Apopellia megaspora

Pellia neesiana • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC VT • wet springy ground

Phaeoceros carolinianus • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC RI VT • moist soil or rock.

Phaeoceros laevis = Phaeoceros carolinianus

Plagiochila asplenioides = Plagiochila porelloides

Plagiochila austinii • CT MA VT • shaded moist acidic rock; subalpine/alpine

Plagiochila porelloides • CT ME NB NH NS QC VT • rocks, soil, tree bases; mesic to wet

Plectocolea crenuliformis = Solenostoma crenuliforme

Plectocolea fossombronioides = Solenostoma fossombronioides

Plectocolea hyalina = Solenostoma hyalinum

Plectocolea obovata = Solenostoma obovatum

Plectocolea obscura = Solenostoma obscurum

Plectocolea subelliptica = Solenostoma obovatum

Pleurocladula lunulifolia = Fuscocephaloziopsis lunulifolia

Pleurocladula macrostachya = Fuscocephaloziopsis macrostachya

Porella pinnata • MA ME NH NS RI VT • shaded rocks or decaying wood along the streams, sometimes submerged

Porella platyphylla • CT MA ME NH NS VT • shaded rock, deciduous bark

Porella platyphylloidea = Porella platyphylla

Prasanthus suecicus • QC • soil, alpine, rare

Preissia quadrata = Marchantia quadrata

Ptilidium ciliare • CT MA ME NB NH NS VT • soil over rock surfaces, humus

Ptilidium pulcherrimum • CT MA ME NB NH NS RI VT • bark, logs, less commonly rock or soil

 

Radula complanata • CT MA ME NH NS RI VT • bark, rocks; shaded humid sites

Radula obconica • CT MA ME NH VT • bark or rocks

Radula tenax = Cladoradula tenax

Reboulia hemisphaerica • CT MA ME NH QC RI VT • periodically moist soil over rock, often calcareous

Riccardia chamedryfolia • CT NS QC RI • rocky or organic substrates in wet shaded habitats; sometimes submerged

Riccardia latifrons • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC RI VT • damp decaying wood or peat

Riccardia latifrons subsp arctica • NS • arctic/alpine

Riccardia multifida • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC RI VT • rock or organic matter in shaded locations, Thuja swamps

Riccardia palmata • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC RI VT • shaded decaying wood; often associated with running water

Riccia austinii = Riccia lamellosa

Riccia beyrichiana • CT MA • cultivated or rocky soil

Riccia bifurca • MA CT NS ME VT NH • annual of moist bare soil

Riccia cavernosa • NS QC VT • moist exposed soil; favors higher pH

Riccia dictyospora • CT • moist soil

Riccia fluitans • CT MA NB NH QC RI VT • floating aquatic

Riccia frostii • VT • silty deposits along water courses

Riccia hirta • CT MA • moist ground, cultivated fields, margins of ponds

Riccia huebeneriana subsp sullivantii • VT CT MY ME NH VT • moist ground, cultivated fields, margins of ponds

Riccia lamellosa • CT • exposed soil

Riccia sorocarpa • CT NS MA • cultivated soil, exposed soil

Riccia sullivantii = Riccia huebeneriana subsp sullivanti

Ricciocarpus natans • CT MA ME NH QC RI VT • floating aquatic, wet soil

 

Scapania apiculata • ME NH NS QC • moist decaying wood

Scapania curta • ME NH ND QC • soil, rock

Scapania cuspiduligera • NB NS QC VT • soil, rock; calciophile

Scapania glaucocephala • NH QC VT • decorticated Picea, Abies, Thuja logs

Scapania gymnostomophila • MA ME QC VT • calcareous rock, soil

Scapania hyperborea • ME NH • peaty or sandy moist soil; alpine

Scapania irrigua • CT ME NB NH NS QC VT • decaying wood, soil in boggy habitats

Scapania lingulata • MA ME VT • acidic rock, soil, decaying wood

Scapania mucronata • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC VT • rock, decaying wood

Scapania nemorea • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC RI VT • variable substrates, not in wetlands

Scapania nemorosa = Scapania nemorea

Scapania paludicola • CT ME NB NH NS QC VT • bogs

Scapania paludosa • MA ME NH QC VT • alpine

Scapania scandica • MA ME NS QC • mineral, humic, peaty soils

Scapania scandica var dimorpha • NS • mineral, humic, peaty soils

Scapania spitsbergensis • ME • soil, rock; alpine

Scapania subalpina • ME NH NS QC • moist rock in or near moving water

Scapania uliginosa EXCLUDED not known from Northeast

Scapania umbrosa • ME NB NH NS QC • decaying wood, rock; humid coastal sites

Scapania undulata • MA ME NB NH NS QC RI VT • rock; associated with moving water

Scapania undulata var oakesii • NS NH VT • soil or rock near coast

Schistochilopsis capitata = Tritomaria capitata

Schistochilopsis grandiretis subsp proteidea • QC VT • other bryophytes in bogs

Schistochilopsis incisa • CT MA MENB NS QC RI VT • decaying wood, soil, over other bryophytes; wet shady habitats

Schistochilopsis incisa var inermis • ME • decaying wood, soil, over other bryophytes; wet shady habitats

Schistochilopsis laxa = Tritomaria laxa

Schljakovia kunzeana • ME NH QC • peat or soil over rock; alpine

Solenostoma atrovirens = Jungermannia atrovirens

Solenostoma caespiticia = Endogemma caespiticia

Solenostoma cordifolium = Jungermannia eucordifolia

Solenostoma crenuliforme • CT QC • neutral to acidic rocks, along shaded rocky streams, disturbed sites; forested lowlands

Solenostoma fossombronioides • CT ME • thin soil over rock along streams; occasionally pioneer on rock; forested sites

Solenostoma gracillimum • CT ME NH NS QC RI VT • fine-grained soil along streams, disturbed sites

Solenostoma hyalinum • CT MA ME NH QC • wet soil, soil covered rock, among bryophytes in wet sites

Solenostoma oblongifolium sensu Mull. Frib. = Jungermannia pumila

Solenostoma oblongifolium sensu R. M. Schust. = Jungermannia borealis

Solenostoma obovatum • ME NH QC VT • shaded wet rocks or soil near streams, rarely submerged; alpine/subalpine

Solenostoma obscurum • MA ME NH VT • wet acidic rocks near streams; subalpine

Solenostoma ontariensis = Solenostoma hyalinum

Solenostoma pumilum = Jungermannia pumila

Solenostoma sphaerocarpum • ME NH QC • moist soil or rocks near streams, wet fine-grained soil in disturbed sites

Solenostoma subellipticum = Solenostoma obovatum

Solenostoma triste = Jungermannia atrovirens

Sphenolobus minutus var weberi • CT ME NB NH NS QCVT • rocky slopes, hummocks in peatlands

Sphenolobus saxicola • ME • rock, soil, humus; cold shaded cliffs

Syzygiella autumnalis • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC RI VT • humus-rich soil, rock, logs, tree bases; moist temperate forests

 

Telaranea longifolia • MA • wet sites, peaty to sandy substrates

Telaranea nematodes = Telaranea longifolia

Tetralophozia setiformis • ME NH QC VT • thin soil over rock in exposed dry or mesic sites, alpine

Trichocolea tomentella • CT MA ME NH NS RI VT • constantly moist to wet, neutral to high pH substrates

Tritomaria capitata • CT MA ME NH NS RI VT • disturbed soil

Tritomaria exsecta • CT MA ME NB NH NS QC VT • humus, trees

Tritomaria exsectiformis • CT MA ME NH NS QCVT • stream banks, decayed wood, humus over decayed wood

Tritomaria laxa • CT MA ME NH NS VT • Sphagnum mires

Tritomaria quinquedentata • CT ME NB NS QC VT • wet humus, soil over rock

Tritomaria scitula • NB QC • among bryophytes, calcareous soil, decayed wood


Usage Notes

Distributions were retrieved from Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria from bryoportal.org between 2025 and 2026. Distributions are generally New England, the Maritimes and Gaspe, QC. Species attributions can be found in Bryophyte Nomenclator bryonames.org. Select synonyms have been included to facilitate cross referencing.

TEAL COLOR indicates the species is thalloid or a hornwort.


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last update 2026-Jun-07