[Polytrichum Mosses East of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]

Awned Haircap Moss, Polytrichum Moss

Polytrichum piliferum

Male reproductive structures of 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.

Awned Haircap Moss, Polytrichum Moss: Polytrichum piliferum - Awned Haircap Moss, Polytrichum Moss: Polytrichum pilferum - Awned Haircap Moss, Polytrichum Moss: Polytrichum piliferum

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.

Awned Haircap Moss, Polytrichum Moss: Polytrichum piliferum

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