Annotated Checklist of Liverworts of the Northeast

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

 

Anastrophyllum hellerianum = Crossocalyx hellerianus

Anastrophyllum michauxii • NB NS QC CT • 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 • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH NY VT • found in a vast 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 • NS QC CT NH ME • moist bare soil

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

Apometzgeria pubescens = Metzgeria pubescens

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

Apopellia megaspora • QC NB NS MA NH NY • wet substrates calciophile

Archilejeunea clypeata = Cheilolejeunea clypeata

Asperifolia sullivantii = Calypogeia sullivantii

Asterella tenella • QC CT MA ME NH NY 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 NY VT • rock, soil or peaty depressions

Barbilophozia binsteadii = Neoorthocaulis binsteadii

Barbilophozia floerkei = Neoorthocaulis floerkei

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

Barbilophozia kunzeana = Schljakovia kunzeana

Barbilophozia lycopodioides • NS QC • well drained humus or rock

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Calypogeia fissa EXCLUDEDCalypogeia neogaea in North America

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

Calypogeia muelleriana • NS NB QC CT MA ME NH NY VT • in thin patches on soil, humus and rocks of moist sites

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

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

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

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

Calypogeia sullivantii • MA RI NH CT ME NS • usually in moist shaded sites on soil or rock faces, especially along streams

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 NY VT • acidic rock, peaty or sandy soil, or 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 byssacea = Cephaloziella divaricata

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

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

Cephaloziella elegans* • QC ME NY VT • thin soil over rock

Cephaloziella grimsulana* • NB QC • rock faces or crevices, tundra

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

Cephaloziella massalongoi • VT • moist soil or rocky detritus

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

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

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

Cephaloziella spinicaulis • CT MA • damp soil in hardwood forests

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

Chandonanthus setiformis = Tetralophozia setiformis

Cheilolejeunea clypeata • CT MA NH NY RI VT • bark or rock

Chiloscyphus cuspidatus = Lophocolea coadunata

Chiloscyphus minor = Lophocolea minor

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

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

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

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

Chiloscyphus profundus = Lophocolea heterophylla

Cladopodiella fluitans = Odontoschisma fluitans

Cladopodiella francisci = Odontoschisma francisci

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

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

Conocephalum conicum EXCLUDEDConocephalum salebrosum in North America

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

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

 

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

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

Diplophyllum obtusifolium • VT • bare soil pioneer

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

Eocalypogeia schusteriana* • NS QC • soil or rock usually of high pH; rare

Eremonotus hellerianus = Crossocalyx hellerianus

Eremonotus minutus = Sphenolobus minutus var. weberi

 

Fossombronia brasiliensis = Fossombronia porphyrorhiza (likely a misidentification - not known in the Northeast)

Fossombronia cristata = Fossombronia wondraczekii

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

Fossombronia foveolata • NS QC CT MA ME NH NY RI VT • variety of exposed soil types

Fossombronia foveolata var cristula = Fossombronia cristula

Fossombronia macounii = Fossombronia wondraczekii

Fossombronia salina* • CT ME RI • in wet, often swampy habitats, coastal

Fossombronia wondraczekii • NB PM QC CT MA NH NY VT • moist often disturbed soil among other bryophytes

Frullania asagrayana • NS QC CT MA ME NH NY VT • rock or trees

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

Frullania brittoniae • CT MA NH NY • trees, sometimes rock

Frullania dilatata = Frullania brittoniae

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

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

Frullania inflata var communis • QC • tree trunks or rocks

Frullania inflata • CT • trees or rock

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

Frullania plana • CT NY • rock, sometimes trees

Frullania riparia • NH NY VT • rock or trees

Frullania selwyniana • NB QC ME NH VT • Thuja

Frullania squarrosa = Frullania ericoides

Frullania tamarisci • NS ME • rocks or trees

Frullania tamarisci subsp. asagrayana = Frullania asagrayana

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

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

Fuscocephaloziopsis leucantha • QC NY VT • decaying wood, rock, humus or peaty soil

Fuscocephaloziopsis loitlesbergeri • QC CT • decaying wood, humus or peaty soil

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

Fuscocephaloziopsis macrostachya • CT MA ME NH NY RI VT • peaty soil or in bogs, occasionally sandy soil

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

 

Geocalyx graveolens • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH NY RI VT • humus and soil along stream or decaying wood

Gymnocolea acutiloba EXCLUDED not in NE = Gymnocolea inflata subsp acutiloba

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

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

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

Gymnomitrion corallioides • ME NH • rock or soil, alpine

Gymnomitrium suecicum = Prasanthus suecicus

 

Haplomitrium hookeri • ME NH • moist soil, alpine

Harpanthus drummondii • NS NH NY VT • moist decaying wood

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

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

Herbertus tenuis • NY • rock

Hygrobiella laxifolia* • NS QC • wet rock or soil, alpine

 

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

Jamesoniella autumnalis = Syzygiella autumnalis

Jubula hutchinsiae subsp pennsylvanica = Jubula pennsylvanica

Jubula pennsylvanica • NS CT MA ME NH NY VT • wet rock or shaded crevices on soil

Jungermannia atrovirens* • NS QC • moist soil or rock near streams

Jungermannia crenuliformis = Solenostoma crenuliforme

Jungermannia eucordifolia EXCLUDEDJungermannia exsertifolia subsp cordifolia

Jungermannia exsertifolia subsp cordifolia • QC NY ME VT • wet rocks near streams

Jungermannia gracillima = Solenostoma gracillimum

Jungermannia hyalina = Solenostoma hyalinum

Jungermannia lanceolata = Liochlaena lanceolata

Jungermannia leiantha = Liochlaena lanceolata

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

 

Kurzia makinoana = Kurzia sylvatica

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

Kurzia setacea = Kurzia pauciflora

Kurzia sylvatica • NS CT MA ME NH NY RI • rock, soil, or 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 NY RI VT • bark, rock or soil including wetlands and Ca enriched

Lejeunea lamacerina subsp gemminata • NB NS MA VT • bark or rock

Lejeunea patens = Lejeunea lamacerina subsp. gemminata

Lejeunea ulicina = Microlejeunea ulicina

Lepidozia reptans • NB NS QC MA ME NH NK NY RI VT • moist decaying wood or soil in shaded sites

Leucolejeunea clypeata = Cheilolejeunea clypeata

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

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

Lophocolea coadunata* • CT MA NY • wet rock

Lophocolea cuspidata = Lophocolea coadunata

Lophocolea heterophylla • QC ME NH • moist decaying wood

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

Lophozia ascendens • NS QC ME NH NY 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 ventricosa var longiflora

Lophozia heterocolpa = Mesoptychia heterocolpos

Lophozia incisa = Schistochilopsis incisa

Lophozia kunzeana = Schljakovia kunzeana

Lophozia laxa = Tritomaria laxa

Lophozia marchica sensu auct. Schust. = Tritomaria laxa

Lophozia longidens = Lophoziopsis longidens

Lophozia longiflora = Lophozia ventricosa var longiflora

Lophozia obtusa = Obtusifolium obtusum

Lophozia porphyroleuca = Lophozia ventricosa var longiflora

Lophozia quinquedentata = Tritomaria quinquedentata

Lophozia rutheana = Mesoptychia rutheana

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

Lophozia sudetica = Barbilophozia sudetica

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

Lophozia ventricosa var longiflora • QC ME NH • soil or Sphagnum in alpine-subalpine, or decaying wood in dark conifer forests

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

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

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

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

 

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

Mannia pilosa EXCLUDED misidentification, not known in New England

Mannia sibirica* • VT • rock, alpine

Mannia triandra • CT MA NY 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 NY • shaded wet soil and rocks on banks of streams and pools, sometimes submerged

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

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

Marsupella aquatica • NS ME NH NY • in swift mountain streams and 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 NY VT • pioneer on wet and damp low pH rock

Marsupella polyanthos = Chiloscyphus polyanthos

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

Marsupella sphacelata • QC CT MA ME NH NY VT • rocks of stony streams, rarely submerged

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

Marsupella ustulata = Marsupella emarginata

Marsupella ustulata var sprucei = Marsupella sprucei

Mesoptychia badensis • NS QC MA NH NY 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 NY • alpine

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

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

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

Metacalypogeia schusteriana = Eocalypogeia schusteriana

Metzgeria conjugata • NS NB QC CT MA ME NH NY VT • rock or bark, mostly conifers, in humid shaded sites

Metzgeria crassipilis • NS CT ME NH NY VT • shaded bark or rock in mesic forests

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

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

Microlejeunea ulicina • NS • bark or rocks

Microlepidozia sylvatica = Kurzia sylvatica

Microlepidozia setacea = Kurzia pauciflora

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

Moerckia hibernica EXCLUDEDMoerckia flotoviana in the East

Mylia anomala • NS CT ME NH NY • in bogs or peaty soil

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

 

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

Nardia geoscyphus var insecta = Nardia insecta

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

Nardia obscura = Solenostoma obscurum

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

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

Neoorthocaulis binsteadii* • NB NS QC • bogs or peaty depressions, alpine

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

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

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

 

Obtusifolium obtusum • QC ME • among bryophytes in forests, sometimes cliffs, rarely in semi-shaded seeps

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

Odontoschisma elongatum • NS QC MA ME NH • in low pH sites on soil or rocky substrates

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

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

Odontoschisma macounii* • NS QC • humus or peat in wet calcareous sites

Odontoschisma prostratum = Odontoschisma sphagni

Odontoschisma sphagni • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH NY RI VT • Sphagnum, sandy soil, decaying wood from 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 • NB NS CT MA ME NH NY RI VT • in low pH wet and shady places along banks of streams, lakes, or in swamps associated with flowing water

Pedinophyllum interruptum* • QC NH • only in Thuja swamps on the ground among bryophytes, or limestone rocks; rare

Pellia endiviifolia = Apopellia endiviifolia

Pellia epiphylla • NY QC NS NB ME VT NH CT RI MA • wet ground and rocks, in springy places

Pellia megaspora = Apopellia megaspora

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

Phaeoceros carolinianus • NB NY CT QC • moist soil or rock.

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

Plagiochila asplenoides = Plagiochila porelloides

Plagiochila austinii • MA NY CT VT • shaded moist acidic rock in mountainous sites

Plagiochila porelloides • QC NS NB ME NH NY VT CT • in wet to dry sites on rocks, soil or tree bases

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

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

Porella platyphylloidea = Porella platyphylla

Prasanthus suecicus • QC • soil, alpine, rare

Preissia quadrata = Marchantia quadrata

Ptilidium ciliare • NB NS CT MA ME NH NY VT • dry thin soil over rock surfaces or humus

Ptilidium pulcherrimum • NB NS CT MA ME NH NY RI VT • bark and bases of trees or logs, less commonly rock or soil

 

Radula complanata • NS CT MA ME NH NY RI VT • bark or rocks of shaded humid sites

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

Radula tenax • CT MA ME NH NY RI VT • rock or trees in humid forested sites

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

Riccardia chamedryfolia • NS QC C NY RI • rocky or organic substrates in wet and shaded habitats, sometimes submerged

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

Riccardia latifrons subsp arctica* • NS • arctic and alpine

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

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

Riccia austinii = Riccia lamellosa

Riccia beyrichiana • CT MA • cultivated or rocky soil

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

Riccia cavernosa • QC NS VT • moist soil near open water or other bare soil, favors higher pH

Riccia dictyospora • CT • moist soil

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

Riccia frostii • VT • silty deposits along water courses

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

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

Riccia lamellosa • CT • bare ground

Riccia sorocarpa • NS CT NY MA • cultivated soil or any bare soil

Riccia sullivantii = Riccia huebeneriana subsp sullivanti

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

 

Sauteria alpina* • QC • alpine

Scapania apiculata • NS QC ME NH NY • moist decaying wood

Scapania curta • NS QC ME NH NY • soil or rock

Scapania cuspiduligera • NB NS QC VT • calcareous soil or rock

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

Scapania gymnostomophila • QC MA ME NY VT • calcareous rock or soil

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

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

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

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

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

Scapania nemorosa = Scapania nemorea

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

Scapania paludosa • NY NH QC MA VT ME • alpine

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

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

Scapania spitsbergensis • ME • soil or rock, alpine

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

Scapania uliginosa EXCLUDED not known from Northeast

Scapania umbrosa • NB NS QC ME NH NY • decaying wood and rock in humid coastal sites

Scapania undulata • NB NS QC CT MA ME NH NY RI VT • mostly associated with moving water and rocks

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 • NB NS QC CT MA ME NY RI VT • decaying wood, soil or over other bryophytes in wet shady habitats

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

Schistochilopsis laxa = Tritomaria laxa

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

Solenostoma atrovirens = Jungermannia atrovirens

Solenostoma cordifolium = Jungermannia exsertifolia subsp cordifolia

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

Solenostoma fossombronioides • CT • Soil-covered rocks along streams, occasionally pioneer on rock, in forested sites

Solenostoma gracillimum • NS QC CT ME NH NY RI VT • fine-grained soil along streams or in human disturbed sites

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

Solenostoma lanceolata = Liochlaena lanceolata

Solenostoma oblongifolium sensu Mull. Frib. = Jungermannia pumila

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

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

Solenostoma obscurum • MA ME NH NY VT • wet acidic rocks near streams, in subalpine habitats

Solenostoma ontariensis = Solenostoma hyalinum

Solenostoma pumilum = Jungermannia pumila

Solenostoma sphaerocarpum • ME NH NY 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* • NB NS QC CT ME NH NY VT • rocky slopes or hummocks in peatlands

Sphenolobus saxicola • ME NY • rock, soil or humus of cold shaded cliffs

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

 

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

Telaranea nematodes = Telaranea longifolia

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

Trichocolea tomentella • NS CT MA ME NH NY RI VT • constantly moist to wet (not inundated), neutral to high pH substrates

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

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

Tritomaria exsectiformis • NS QC CT MA ME NH NY VT • stream banks, decayed wood or humus over decayed wood

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

Tritomaria quinquedentata • NB NS QC CT ME NH NY VT • wet humus or soil over rock

Tritomaria scitula* • NB QC • with other bryophytes calcareous soil or decayed wood


Usage Notes

This list was extracted from Synopsis of the Liverwort Flora of North America North of Mexico by Stotler and Crandall-Stotler 2017 with a cross reference from the preliminary BFNA 29 data available in March 2024. Species attributions can be found in Stotler and Crandall-Stotler. Select synonyms have been included to make it easier to cross reference Liverworts of New England by Lincoln; Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts by Pope; How to Know the Mosses by Conard; and Syllogeus 62 by Ireland.

Asterisk (*) indicates the species is NOT in Liverworts of New England.

TEAL COLOR indicates the species is thalloid or a hornwort.

Distributions were retrieved from bryoportal.org in March & July 2022 using the polygon coordinates below or are from the preliminary BFNA volume 29 available online in March 2022. Distributions are generally New England, the Maritimes and Gaspe, QC. There is some errant distribution data for an unknown of species that I am slowly correcting.

POLYGON ((45.957611 -58.836425,41.334305 -69.844727,40.570954 -72.547363,40.671022 -75.337890,45.250497 -75.228028,48.084289 -69.910644,49.687860 -65.713867,48.201582 -62.330078,45.957611 -58.836425))


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