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MOSS: Phylum Bryophyta

Mosses are simple evergreen plants that are rootless, but with a stem carrying leaves and spore capsules which are seen in Spring. They form a soft cushion and the deep springy layers represent many years of growth. Like ferns, their male sperm needs a film of water to swim by which to reach the female egg cells.

The fronds of some species are loose while others form tight cushions. They like shade and moisture and though they can withstand severe winter frosts, their main danger here is from the hoards of people who give little thought to the destruction of habitat, by ripping it off the tree stump or boulders.





[The Rabbit] [The Badger] [Ivy] [Honeysuckle] [Moss] [Common Oak] [Pedunculate Oak] [Lichens] [Common Lime]
[The Hedgehog] [The Bramble] [The Chiffchaff] [The Frog Hopper] [Hawthorn] [Tree Roots]
[The Wood Mouse] [The Pigmy Shrew] [The Sycamore] [The Guelder Rose] [The Ash] [Gorse] [Hazel] [Tootworth]
[Goat Willow] [The Rowan] [Common White Beam] [Spindle] [Dog Rose] [The Blackthorn] [Birds] [Grasshoppers & Crickets] [Dragonfly & Damesify] [Feral Goat] [Silver Birch] [Pine Martin] [Fungi] [Lough Carra] [Brown Trout] [The Mute Swan]
[The Otter] [Limestone] [Holly] [The Fox] [The Mighty Oak] [Common Polypody] [Treecreeper] [The Irish Stoat]
[The Hornbeam] [Bats]