Awned Haircap Moss, Polytrichum Moss
Polytrichum piliferum
Male reproductive structures on what appears to be awned haircap moss, here seen with Cheilanthes gracillima and Cladonia sp. on granitic outcrops about one-mile north of the Little Spokane River in the Little Spokane River Natural Area........May 6, 2012. Note the long hyaline leaf tips on the mosses.
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Awned haircap moss growing on the ground in a mixed ponderosa pine-douglas fir forest on a Bretz Flood sandbar near the Spokane Country Club, Spokane, Washington.........April 27, 2013.
Male reproductive structures on what appears to be awned haircap moss, here seen with Selaginella scopulorum on granitic outcrops about one-mile north of the Little Spokane River in the Little Spokane River Natural Area........May 6, 2012.
Paul Slichter