I am really impressed by the number of people who are interested in mosses at this forum. Even by those few who find it to be a bane-which is quite understandable especially if you live where it grows on everything and everywhere!
(If you are getting rid of it I will gladly take some!!)
So I have alot of links that I want to share one at a time so that if you wish to add some feedback on the site and if you think it is worth the visit or what you really liked most about it I would really like to know. Most of these sites I have only just briefly scanned through as time is one commodity that is rapidly slipping away and trying to figure out the best use of what I have left has proven to be one dilemna that I had never in my wildest imagination even had thought about before.
So let me present the world of mosses link by link. Hopefully these are all new to you.
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On this very rainy Thursday I am adding a link to a great series of images of mosses found mostly in Canada and the bordering American states. While perhaps indicative of what any particular moss genus may be that may be observed locally, the use of these images to provide specific designation of what species of moss that you may run across is not their best use.
While I have not had the time to do so, I believe that these images provide a basis of sorting mosses by their overall physical appearance, such as prostrate ones, erect ones, tree-like ones, etc. This sorting would, at the least, make it somewhat easier to isolate, generally, what that moss may be or point the direction to its identity.
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GENERAL INFORMATION LINKS
An overview of Bryophytes
http://www.perspective.com/nature/plantae/bryophytes.html
Mosses in arable fields: UK site
http://www.arableplants.fieldguide.co.uk/?P=moss_liver_horn&SHC=1&PSD=1
MOSS IMAGES LINKS:
To begin something I have described as California Mosses.
https://www.csun.edu/~hcbio028
I identify this link as North American Mosses:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~mjs14/bryopics/index.htm
This site features some common mosses found in the SouthEastern USA. http://www2.una.edu/pdavis/mosses_to_know_in_the_field.htm
This is a German site that is also in English-it sells CDs on mosses but what it has are sample images of all kinds of mosses. Click on those links of the sample pictures.
http://www.milueth.de/Moose/
Dereila images of mosses and liverworts;
http://dereila.ca/woods/page1.html
Andy's Northern Ontario Mosses and Lichens
http://www.ontariowildflower.com/moss.htm#top
Hainault Forest Website
http://www.hainaultforest.co.uk/4Moss%20Photographs.htm#INFORMATION
University of British Columbia:
http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/articles/4/
Mosses, Lichens, and Liverworts of the Northwoods
http://www.rook.org/earl/bwca/nature/moss/index.html
Bryophytes at SIU
http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/mossimage.html
Bryophytes of Wales by Alan Hale
http://home.clara.net/adhale/bryos/phframe.htm
University of Wisconsin classroom images
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/images/130/Bryophytes/
Common Mosses and Liverworts of New England
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/stewardship/pubs/mosses_liverworts/mosses_liverworts.htm
MOSS CULTIVATION LINKS:
Here is a link that is described as Care of moss with images
http://members.tripod.com/~NPK1/moss7.html
Moss farming:
http://www.squidoo.com/mossfarming
How to grow moss:
http://www.gnps.org/Massie.htm
Oregon State University: Living with mosses
http://bryophytes.science.oregonstate.edu/mosses.htm
SCIENTIFIC LINKS:
http://www.science.siu.edu/landplants/Bryophyta/bryophyta.html
Listing of California endangered moss species
http://www.cnps.org/programs/Rare_Plant/inventory/bryophytes.htm
Fremontia Special Issue on Bryophytes-HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
http://www.cnps.org/publications/fremontia/Fremontia_Vol31-No3.pdf
Focus on Species:
http://159.189.176.5/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=703&&PageID=2130&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true
Bryophytes: S.I.U. website
http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/
The British Bryological Society
http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/bbs.htm
Mosses and the Desert Community
http://heritage.nv.gov/mosses/florstms.htm
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Apparently this forum has now become one that is only viewable by subscribers! I am not a subscriber.
So if any one has a comment to make about the links or just wants to chat with me you will have to email me.
Here is my email: eyuracleo@hotmail.com
I have been very busy working on redoing my website. Here is that address in case you might find it of interest
and you want to see who is this dude that has posted this stuff!! http://jsionline.freeservers.com/
Click on the image to enter the site.
Needless to say I do have other links to add but they will simply have to wait til later.
Cheers.
This message was edited Jun 11, 2007 1:27 AM
Mosses: Links of merit
Jerry
this will be very valuable site for me in No Calif
i have been using the University of Illinois site http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/index.html
because of their very good images
i still am overwhelmed by all of these mosses, i have a lot of different kinds here i think :-)
Dick in wet Hiouchi
Hello Dick,
Thought you might like this site. Not as many images as I would like to see but lots of art. But the main thing is the link to the Madrono. Hopefully the materials that Dr. Norris (he was my bryology prof at HSC) are still available. There are two sections that can be purchased. Check with them on availability.
While you may have alot of moss in your area you may only have less than ten different species that exist within your range of contact. What is important is to look at all the areas including on the trees that have mosses. And take images especially close ups (10cm) if possible.
I would like to encourage you to do a web journal on the mosses in your area!!!
If interested and you have Photo Impression or whatever let me know if you need any advice on how to. It would be fun, interesting, and revealing as sometimes what the camera sees is not really in your field of vision or attention!!
Note: I have alot of links. I will post up a new one tomorrow. Feed while you can!!! It is really hard to find time to go back when there are so many more to see!!!
New link is up. look in original post.
The latest link pertains to growing moss. Check the bottom of the page for links to images etc.
This morning I am adding a link to a site at the Southern Illinois University.
SIU has a distinguished bryology department and this link provides links to a generalized description of Bryophytes as well as links to more specific aspects of mosses. See the first link under Scientific links in my initial post.
The latest link is to a site that features some of the more commonly
encountered mosses in the SouthEastern USA.
Like many sites the images tend to be generally of a clump or group of
moss and gives only some indication of the generic features that would
tend to distinguish each of the shown genera from the other. While
specific species are indicated basing any such definition of what is found
out in the bush is tenuous since most species are generally distinguished
by characteristics that defy an eyeball analysis!
Thanks so much for the great moss info. I never got around to re-locating moss last summer and this has given me the confidence to do it this year. I have several varieties growing along the lawn and on trees that I would love to group together on rocks, etc. in amongst my hosta.
Thanks for your comments. Tomorrow I will post up another link under cultivation. I am trying to stay with one every other day. There is so much to read at these sites and to look at it can become staggering to take on all the links at one time!!!!
If you have any images of your mosses I would think that everyone would love to see them!!
Sorry.......I don't have any pics of my moss, and right now they are under at least a foot of snow, with more coming down. Maybe in May. It would be exciting to have them ID'ed.
Here is the latest moss link.
It is a large page that you will have to scroll down all the way to the bottom to read it all.
There is alot here including links!!!
A very well developed info sheet on moss cultivation. Enjoy under Moss Farming in original post above.
Another link, this time a short page on the endangered mosses of California.
It is just a page of commentary with a list of the species names. Wish they had links off the names to images, as it would make it so much more interesting to visit!!!
It is under SCIENTIFIC LINKS
Wow, I slipped up!! try to get new links added at the midnight hour and I have almost lost the whole day today. Been busy. But you will definitely like this new link. Some fantastic images of mosses. Looks like some great products but this in Germany. The site is also in English and if the page is all
German look for an English flag in the upper right for the English version if available or just click and see what happens???? Great images here.
I have ran across this evening one of the best links ever on mosses. It is the entire issue of FREMONTIA that is a special issue devoted entirely to bryophytes. It is in pdf format so you will need Adobe Reader to load the file.
There are a total of 44 pages. If you are on dial up then BE PATIENT FOR THIS LINK TO LOAD. It is worth the wait. Once loaded PRINT THIS OUT!
It is entirely black and white.
You will find the link under the label: SCIENTIFIC LINKS in the original posting above.
today's link is under Cultivation in the post above.
It is an all text document. No images.
But the information is good and useful. Something to print out for reference.
Jerry,
I haven't had time to keep up on all of your links, but I certainly will. Thank you so much for doing this.
Marie
Maybe you could request that this thread be kept as a 'sticky'.
Jerry
yes thank you for these links
but you should make a new thread & cut & paste all of the info over
then ask Terry or Dave to make the new one a sticky
that way it will not be cluttered with all of the additional chatter, like this one of mine :-)
& you can edit it to add new links
BTW: next time you edit clear all of the edit notes at the bottom
Dick
Tonight is the Dereila site of images by Derrick Ditchburn of mosses and liverworts. Very nice images the page may take awhile to load for dial-up. Well worth the wait.
Today's link is at Oregon State University and is on Living with mosses.
A nicely put together site. It is under Cultivation.
Ah late again today! Time sure slips away!
Today's link is to a page of images of some commonly encountered mosses in the US. It is good for a general overview of the different kinds and how they look. Exact species designation may not apply to those in your neighborhood. Look under Images.
todays link is under the Scientific links.
It is titled Focus on Species. What is important about this link are the links that are found at this site. Some nice links with info and images.
todays link is of mosses and lichens that occur in Northern Ontario, Canada. The link is found under Images.
The images at this site are ok for general purposes but lack any detail except for the Sphagnum images.
Today's link is to the webpages on bryophytes at Southern Illinois University. S.I.U. is one of the major centers of study of mosses in the USA. While I could have posted this link under Images I stuck it under Scientific Links due to the fact that very good information is available besides the images alone!
Today's link is to The British Bryological Society website.
This is a very nice site with lots to check out and explore.
The link is under Scientific links.
Jerry, thanks for all of your postings on Bryophytes, I haven't had time to read all of the links but what I have read is really amazing. Jim King
Thanks for the comments. They are appreciated.
Todays link is mostly commentary but very interesting commentary on mosses and how they grow in the deserts of the SouthWest. This site also has a number of excellent links on it as well. The link is under Scientific links and is called Mosses and the Desert Community.
Added Hainault Forest Website under Images.
removed duplicated link.
no time to chat.
Due to the fact that I have just purchased a new IBM hybrid, an Lenovo model, notebook to replace the failing Hp notebook I missed my regularly scheduled insertion of a link. Hopefully I will be able to snag the old links off of the hp AOL program before the machine become inoperable. Believe me I am glad to be ridding myself of what has proven to be a very disappointing product line. The only thing left that is hp is a copy machine and despite a gliche it has on the proper alignment of the copied page it, at the least, is still working.
Today's link is to the University of British Columbia website where they have constructed a very nice gallery of images of mosses with some supportive pages.
You will find it under IMAGES
YO! I managed to snag the links off my old computer before it gave up the ghost!!
So for today's link I have posted it under IMAGES even though it is much more than just images! In fact, there are only a few images of mosses. Mostly lists of mosses.
I definitely hope that more work will be done with this section of this website.
I recommend exploring the other sections, particularly the section on club mosses.
Rook.org provides very excellent commentary and images when such is presented.
The link is titled: Mosses, Lichens, and Liverworts of the Northwoods.
Todays link is to Southern Illinois University.
This link features images of some moss species.
It is found under IMAGES
Ever visited Wales?
Shrouded in antiquity and the mists of Avalon, this mythological enchanted home of dragons and knights errant is also home to alot of mosses! Alan Hale shares his homeland's mosses with images.
Hi Gerry. Found Daves Garden forum while checking out my web sites under the name Dereila. As you had put in a link on this forum, it came up. Glad you found my moss and lichens pages. Had a good day out on Thurs. and photographed this one.
Hello Kildale,
It is indeed a pleasure to have comments from folks to whom I have posted links here on the mosses.
Your picture is very interesting. Have not seen white capsules before!! But I have just seen a white moss!
It is a South African species and I will be posting the image on the South African site I am slowly developing.
Yipes it has been awhile since I have added any new links.
Have been busy trying to get back in the swing after my old computer started going down. Luckily I managed to snag off all the links before the battery in it gave out. I think I have finally gotten this new machine up and going.
It took awhile as I discovered the fact that the AOL program simply was messing everything up for my machine.
It is gone and now I can get back to seeing where I am on the links. Will begin posting again in a day or two.
Jerry, I'm glad to see you posting again. I don't think I ever saw so much diversity in my like Bryophytes are much more interesting than I ever realized. keep posting please, Jim
As I'm new here, I wondered if there is a lichen section as they go hand in hand with mosses. I go on outings with an expert on moss etc and he names them all for me, I'm more or less just a photographer. I found this site through Google while looking at the sites that have either used images or the web sites that I have. Glad that you found one of them. I had a request recently to use a couple of images from Alaska. The sites may be of interest to you, although you may be familiar with them. (http://www.arcticatlas.org/photos/pltspecies/vascular and http://www.arcticatlas.org/photos/pltspecies/nonvascular).
Hello Kildale,
Thanks for the links on the Alaskan plants!
Nice but I notice they are leaving out the club mosses! These are plants in the Lycopsida and include Lycopodium,
Lycopodiella, and Selaginella. While Lycopodiums and their related genera tend to be more photographed than Selaginella species there is a need for solid and in depth images of these plants as well since quality shots are generally lacking or are too vague on the net.
In your photo treks I would like to encourage some shots of these kinds of plants as well. What are needed are general habitat shots, both overall and close ups, and shots of the populations with close up work on the plants and parts of the plants in situ.
To give you an idea of what I am talking about I have constructed a journal on Selaginella which is geared towards supplying linkage of scientific info as well as images which I have been able to find to date. Plus links to keys and an illustrated glossary i constructed with reference to specific species per specific traits.
Here is that link:
http://jcsplitimage.topcities.com/selag1.html
Check out the images under the links section. Some are nice while others are vague. What are needed are more images like the cover to my glossary.
A picture can say a thousand things but not if it is vague.
For Lichens I believe this forum of the mosses is ok for including them here. And Liverworts too!!!
And Jim, thanks so much for your encouragement. I have a bunch of links. I am here tonight to print out what I have posted so I can check off what has been done and see just what is left. I have alot of links. Plus I am working very sporadically on a site which will include
South African mosses but without id and I do hope to be putting up some journals on my moss growing experiences.
It is all just a matter of having time for all of it in between the chores of living and the pauses to catch my breath!!
Here is that white moss from South Africa. It is growing on a boulder in full shade. (Haven't had time to get my links up to the South African site to work on it yet.)
The white moss is Bryum argentium, a common moss found worldwide. Professor Bob McGill of the Missouri Botanic Gardens, who is studying the mosses of Southern Africa, has provided the identification. Bryum is a commonly encountered genus of mosses and is often seen as that touch of green growing in the cracks of sidewalks. It is a very short moss. So far in my attempts at growing it I have had little success. It is possible this moss requires absolute drainage?
This message was edited Apr 17, 2007 1:57 AM
At last! A new link. this one is a nice overview of Bryophytes and introduces the major classes of Bryophytes.
It is found under GENERAL INFORMATION LINKS.
today's link is on images designed for classroom use on Bryophytes.
At the University of Wisconsin.
Check under Images.
Added under General Information
UK site on bryophytes in arable fields.