Biology:Fern moss

Fern moss may refer to several varieties of moss that produce feathery fronds and can form a moss carpet across grass or bare patches of ground:

Hylocomium splendens

• Fissidens bryoides (commons) – lesser fern moss
• Hylocomium splendens or Hylocomium proliferum – mountain fern moss
• Thuidium species including:
  • Thuidium abietinum (vi) – wiry fern moss
  • Thuidium delicatulum – common fern moss
  • Thuidium recognitum (ceb) – hook-leaf fern moss

Possibly also:

• Drepanocladus species including:
  • Drepanocladus fluitans (vi)
  • Drepanocladus uncinatus (vi)