A List of the Mosses of THE GREAT STATE OF OHIO
(alphabetical order)
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Abietinella abietina (Hedwig) M.Fleischer
Acaulon muticum (Hedwig) Müller Hal.
Amblystegium serpens (Hedwig) Bruch, Schimper & Gümbel
Amphidium mougeotii (Bruch & Schimper) Schimper
Anacamptodon splachnoides (Froelich ex Bridel) Bridel
Andreaea rothii F.Weber & D.Mohr
Andreaea rupestris Hedwig
Anoectangium stracheyanum Mitten
Anomobryum julaceum Schrader ex P.Gaertner
Anomodon attenuatus (Hedwig) Huebener
Anomodon minor (Hedwig) Lindberg
Anomodon tristis (Cesati) Sullivant & Lesquereux
Anomodon viticulosus (Hedwig) Hooker & Taylor
Archidium alternifolium (Dickson ex Hedwig) Mitten
Archidium donnellii Austin
Archidium ohioense Müller Hal.
Arrhenopterum heterostichum Hedwig
Atrichum altecristatum (Renauld & Cardot) B.B.Symth & L.C.D.Symth
Atrichum angustatum (Bridel) Schimper
Atrichum crispulum Bescherelle
Atrichum crispum (James) Sullivant
Atrichum tenellum (Röhling) Bruch
Aulacomnium palustre (Hedwig) Schwägrichen
Barbula convoluta Hedwig
Barbula indica (Hooker) Sprengel
Barbula unguiculata Hedwig
Bartramia pomiformis Hedwig
Brachytheciastrum velutinum (Hedwig) Ignatov & Huttunen
Brachythecium acuminatum (Hedwig) Austin
Brachythecium acutum (Mitten) Sullivant
Brachythecium campestre (Müller Hal.) Schimper
Brachythecium falcatum (Grout) H.A.Crum
Brachythecium laetum (Bridel) Schimper
Brachythecium rivulare Schimper
Brachythecium rotaeanum De Notaris
Brachythecium rutabulum (Hedwig) Schimper
Brothera leana (Sullivant) Müller Hal.
Bruchia flexuosa (Schwägrichen) Müller Hal.
Bryhnia graminicolor (Bridel) Grout
Bryhnia novae-angliae (Sullivant & Lesquereux) Grout
Bryoandersonia illecebra (Hedwig) H.Robinson
Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostre (Hedwig) P.C.Chen
Bryoxiphium norvegicum (Bridel) Mitten
Bryum algovicum Sendtner ex Müller Hal.
Bryum argenteum Hedwig
Bryum caespiticium Hedwig
Bryum capillare Hedwig
Bryum cyclophyllum (Schwägrichen) Bruch & Schimper
Bryum dichotomum Hedwig
Bryum flaccidum Bridel
Bryum klinggraeffii Schimper
Bryum lisae De Notaris
Bryum pallescens Schleicher ex Schwägrichen
Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedwig) P.Gaertner, B.Meyer & Scherbius
Bryum uliginosum (Bridel) Bruch & Schimper
Buxbaumia aphylla Hedwig
Buxbaumia minakatae S.Okamura
Callicladium haldanianum (Greville) H.A.Crum
Calliergon cordifolium (Hedwig) Kindberg
Calliergon giganteum (Schimper) Kindberg
Calliergonella curvifolia (Hedwig) B.H.Allen
Calliergonella cuspidata (Hedwig) Loeske
Calliergonella lindbergii (Mitten) Hedenäs
Campyliadelphus chrysophyllus (Bridel) Kanda
Campylium stellatum (Hedwig) C.E.O.Jensen
Campylophyllum hispidulum (Bridel) Hedenäs
Campylopus pilifer Bridel
Campylopus tallulensis Sullivant & Lesquereux
Campylostelium brachycarpum (Noguchi) Z.Iwatsuki, Tateishi & Tad.Suzuki
Campylostelium saxicola (F.Weber & D.Mohr) Bruch & Schimper
Ceratodon purpureus (Hedwig) Bridel
Cirriphyllum piliferum (Hedwig) Grout
Claopodium rostratum (Hedwig) Ignatov
Clasmatodon parvulus (Hampe) Sullivant
Climacium americanum Bridel
Conardia compacta (Hooker) H.Robinson
Cratoneuron filicinum (Hedwig) Spruce
Cryphaea glomerata Schimper ex Sullivant
Ctenidium subrectifolium (Bridel) W.R.Buck & B.H.Allen
Cyrtomnium hymenophylloides (Heubener) T.J.Koponen
Dichelyma capillaceum (Withering) Myrin
Dichodontium pellucidum (Hedwig) Schimper
Dicranella cerviculata (Hedwig) Schimper
Dicranella heteromalla (Hedwig) Schimper
Dicranella palustris (Dickson) E.F.Warburg
Dicranella rufescens (Withering) Schimper
Dicranella schreberiana (Hedwig) Hilferty ex H.A.Crum & L.E.Anderson
Dicranella varia (Hedwig) Schimper
Dicranodontium denudatum (Bridel) E.Britton
Dicranum bonjeanii De Notaris
Dicranum condensatum Hedwig
Dicranum fuscescens Turner
Dicranum ontariense W.L.Peterson
Dicranum polysetum Swartz
Dicranum scoparium Hedwig
Dicranum spurium Hedwig
Dicranum undulatum Bridel
Didymodon fallax (Hedwig) R.H.Zander
Didymodon ferrugineus (Schimper ex Bescherelle) M.O.Hill
Didymodon rigidulus Hedwig
Didymodon tophaceus (Bridel) Lisa
Diphyscium foliosum (Hedwig) D.Mohr
Diphyscium mucronifolium Mitten
Discelium nudum (Dickson) Bridel
Ditrichum lineare (Swartz) Lindberg
Ditrichum pallidum (Hedwig) Hampe
Ditrichum pusillum (Hedwig) Hampe
Ditrichum rhynchostegium Kindberg
Drepanocladus aduncus (Hedwig) Warnstorf
Drepanocladus polygamus (Schimper) Hedenäs
Drummondia prorepens (Hedwig) E.Britton
Encalypta ciliata Hedwig
Encalypta procera Bruch
Entodon brevisetus (Hooker & Wilson) Lindberg
Entodon challengeri (Paris) Cardot
Entodon cladorrhizans (Hedwig) Müller Hal.
Entodon seductrix (Hedwig) Müller Hal.
Ephemerum cohaerens (Hedwig) Hampe
Ephemerum crassinervium (Schwägrichen) Hampe var. crassinervium
Ephemerum crassinervium (Schwägrichen) Hampe var. texanum
Ephemerum serratum (Hedwig) Hampe
Ephemerum spinulosum Bruch & Schimper
Eucladium verticillatum (Bridel) Bruch & Schimper
Eurhynchiastrum pulchellum (Hedwig) Ignatov & Huttunen
Fabronia ciliaris (Bridel) Bridel
Fissidens adianthoides Hedwig
Fissidens bryoides Hedwig
Fissidens bushii (Cardot & Thériot) Cardot & Thériot.
Fissidens closteri Austin
Fissidens dubius P.Beauvois
Fissidens elegans Bridel
Fissidens exilis Hedwig
Fissidens fontanus (Bachelot de la Pylaie) Steudel
Fissidens hyalinus Wilson & Hooker f.
Fissidens minutulus Sullivant
Fissidens obtusifolius Wilson
Fissidens osmundioides Hedwig
Fissidens subbasilaris Hedwig
Fissidens taxifolius Hedwig
Fontinalis antipyretica Hedwig
Fontinalis dalecarlica Bruch & Schimper
Fontinalis hypnoides Hartman
Fontinalis novae-angliae Sullivant
Fontinalis sphagnifolia (Müller Hal.) Wijk & Margadant
Fontinalis sullivantii Lindberg
Forsstroemia producta (Hornschuch) Paris
Forsstroemia trichomitria (Hedwig) Lindberg
Funaria flavicans Michaux
Funaria hygrometrica Hedwig
Grimmia anodon Bruch & Schimper
Grimmia laevigata (Bridel) Bridel
Grimmia olneyi Sullivant
Grimmia pilifera P.Beauvois
Grimmia plagiopodia Hedwig
Grimmia pulvinata (Hedwig) Smith
Gymnostomum aeruginosum Smith
Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitten) Hedenäs
Haplocladium microphyllum (Hedwig) Brotherus
Haplocladium virginianum (Bridel) Brotherus
Hedwigia ciliata (Hedwig) P.Beauvois
Helodium blandowii (F.Weber & D.Mohr) Warnstorf
Helodium elodioides (Renauld & Cardot) B.H.Allen
Helodium paludosum Austin
Herzogiella striatella (Bridel) Z.Iwatsuki
Herzogiella turfacea (Lindberg) Z.Iwatsuki
Homalotheciella subcapillata (Hedwig) Brotherus
Homomallium adnatum (Hedwig) Brotherus
Hookeria acutifolia Hooker & Greville
Hygroamblystegium varium (Hedwig) Mönkemeyer var. humile
Hygroamblystegium varium (Hedwig) Mönkemeyer var. varium
Hygrohypnum closteri (Austin) Grout
Hygrohypnum eugyrium (Schimper) Loeske
Hygrohypnum luridum (Hedwig) Jennings
Hygrohypnum ochraceum (Turner ex Wilson) Loeske
Hylocomium splendens (Hedwig) Schimper
Hymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedwig) Dixon
Hyophila involuta (Hooker) A.Jaeger
Hypnum cupressiforme Hedwig
Hypnum imponens Hedwig
Hypnum pallescens (Hedwig) P.Beauvois
Hypnum pratense Koch ex Spruce
Isopterygiopsis muelleriana (Schimper) Z.Iwatsuki
Isopterygiopsis pulchella (Hedwig) Z. Iwatsuki
Isopterygium tenerum (Swartz) Mitten
Jaffueliobryum wrightii (Sullivant) Thériot
Leptobryum pyriforme (Hedwig) Wilson
Leptodictyum riparium (Hedwig) Warnstorf
Leskea gracilescens Hedwig
Leskea obscura Hedwig
Leskea polycarpa Hedwig
Leucobryum albidum (P.Beauvois) Lindberg
Leucobryum glaucum (Hedwig) Ångström
Leucodon brachypus Bridel
Leucodon julaceus (Hedwig) Sullivant
Leucodon sciuroides (Hedwig) Schwägrichen
Lewinskya elegans (Schwägrichen ex Hooker & Greville) F.Lara, Garilleti & Goffinet
Lewinskya sordida (Sullivant & Lesquereux) F.Lara, Garilleti & Goffinet
Lindbergia brachyptera (Mitten) Kindberg
Loeskeobryum brevirostre (Bridel) M.Fleischer ex Brotherus
Meesia longiseta Hedwig
Micromitrium synoicum (James) Austin
Micromitrium tenerum (Bruch & Schimper) Crosby
Mnium hornum Hedwig
Mnium lycopodioides Schwägrichen
Mnium marginatum (Dickson ex Withering) P.Beauvois
Mnium spinulosum Bruch & Schimper
Mnium stellare Hedwig
Mnium thomsonii Schimper
Myurella sibirica (Müller Hal.) Reimers
Neckera pennata Hedwig
Nyholmiella obtusifolia Holmen & Warncke
Oncophorus wahlenbergii Bridel
Orthodicranum flagellare (Hedwig) Loeske
Orthodicranum fulvum (Hooker) G.Roth
Orthodicranum montanum (Hedwig) Loeske
Orthodicranum viride (Sullivant & Lesquereux) G.Roth
Orthotrichum anomalum Hedwig
Orthotrichum ohioense Sullivant & Lesquereux
Orthotrichum pumilum Swartz
Orthotrichum pusillum Mitten
Orthotrichum stellatum Bridel
Orthotrichum strangulatum P.Beauvois
Oxyrrhynchium hians (Hedwig) Loeske
Palustriella falcata (Bridel) Hedenäs
Pelekium minutulum (Hedwig) A.Touw
Pelekium pygmaeum (Schimper) A.Touw
Philonotis fontana (Hedwig) Bridel
Philonotis longiseta (Michaux) E.Britton
Philonotis marchica (Hedwig) Bridel
Physcomitrium collenchymatum Gier
Physcomitrium hookeri Hampe
Physcomitrium immersum Sullivant
Physcomitrium patens (Hedwig) Mitten
Physcomitrium pyriforme (Hedwig) Hampe
Physcomitrium serratum (Wilson & Hooker) Müller Hal.
Plagiomnium ciliare (Müller Hal.) T.J.Koponen
Plagiomnium cuspidatum (Hedwig) T.J.Koponen
Plagiomnium drummondii (Bruch & Schimper) T.J.Koponen
Plagiomnium ellipticum (Bridel) T.J.Koponen
Plagiomnium medium (Bruch & Schimper) T.J.Koponen
Plagiomnium rostratum (Schrader) T.J.Koponen
Plagiothecium cavifolium (Bridel) Z.Iwatsuki
Plagiothecium denticulatum (Hedwig) Schimper
Plagiothecium laetum Schimper
Plagiothecium latebricola Schimper
Platydictya jungermannioides (Bridel) H.A.Crum
Platygyrium repens (Bridel) Schimper
Platylomella lescurii (Sullivant) A.L.Andrews
Pleuriditrichum marylandicum A.L.Andrews & F.J.Hermann
Pleuridium acuminatum Lindberg
Pleuridium ravenelii Austin
Pleuridium subulatum (Hedwig) Rabenhorst
Pleurozium schreberi (Willdenow ex Bridel) Mitten
Pogonatum brachyphyllum (Michaux) P.Beauvois
Pogonatum pensilvanicum (Hedwig) P.Beauvois
Pohlia annotina (Hedwig) Lindberg
Pohlia atropurpurea (Wahlenberg) H.Lindberg
Pohlia bulbifera (Warnstorf) Warnstorf
Pohlia elongata Hedwig
Pohlia lescuriana (Sullivant) Ochi
Pohlia melanodon (Bridel) A.J.Shaw
Pohlia nutans (Hedwig) Lindberg
Pohlia wahlenbergii (F.Weber & D.Mohr) A.L.Andrews
Polytrichum commune Hedwig
Polytrichum formosum Hedwig
Polytrichum juniperinum Hedwig
Polytrichum longisetum Swartz ex Bridel
Polytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot
Polytrichum pallidisetum Funck
Polytrichum piliferum Hedwig
Polytrichum strictum Bridel
Pseudocalliergon trifarium (F.Weber & D.Mohr) Loeske
Pseudocampylium radicale (P.Beauvois) Vanderpoorten & Hedenäs
Pseudotaxiphyllum distichaceum (Mitten) Z.Iwatsuki
Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans (Bridel) Z.Iwatsuki
Ptilium crista-castrensis (Hedwig) De Notaris
Ptychomitrium drummondii (Wilson) Sullivant
Ptychomitrium incurvum (Schwägrichen) Spruce
Pylaisia condensata (Mitten) A.Jaeger
Pylaisia intricata (Hedwig) Schimper
Pylaisia polyantha (Hedwig) Schimper
Pylaisiadelpha recurvans (Michaux) W.R.Buck
Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris (Bruch & Schimper ex Sullivant) W.R.Buck
Racomitrium venustum Frisvoll
Rauiella scita (P.Beauvois) Reimers
Rhabdoweisia crispata (Dickson ex Withering) Lindberg
Rhizomnium appalachianum T.J.Koponen
Rhizomnium magnifolium (Horikawa) T.J.Koponen
Rhizomnium punctatum (Hedwig) T.J.Koponen
Rhodobryum ontariense (Kindberg) Kindberg
Rhynchostegium aquaticum A.Jaeger
Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedwig) A.Jaeger
Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus (Hedwig) Warnstoff
Rhytidium rugosum (Hedwig) Kindberg
Saelania glaucescens (Hedwig) Brotherus
Sanionia uncinata (Hedwig) Loeske
Sarmentypnum exannulatum (Schimper) Hedenäs
Schistidium apocarpum (Hedwig) Bruch & Schimper
Schistidium crassithecium H.H.Blom ex B.H.Allen
Schistidium lancifolium (Kindberg) H.H.Blom
Schistidium rivulare (Bridel) Podpĕra
Schistidium viride H.H.Blom & Darigo
Schistostega pennata (Hedwig) F.Weber & D.Mohr
Schwetschkeopsis fabronia (Schwägrichen) Brotherus
Sciuro-hypnum curtum (Lindberg) Ignatov
Sciuro-hypnum plumosum (Hedwig) Ignatov & Huttunen
Sciuro-hypnum populeum (Hedwig) Ignatov & Huttunen
Sciuro-hypnum reflexum (Starke) Ignatov & Huttunen
Scorpidium cossonii (Schimper) Hedenäs
Scorpidium revolvens (Swartz) Rubers
Scorpidium scorpioides (Hedwig) Limpricht
Seligeria calcarea (Hedwig) Bruch & Schimper
Seligeria campylopoda Kindberg
Seligeria donniana (Smith) Müller Hal.
Seligeria pusilla (Hedwig) Bruch & Schimper
Seligeria recurvata (Hedwig) Bruch & Schimper
Sematophyllum adnatum (Michaux) E.Britton
Sematophyllum demissum (Wilson) Mitten
Sematophyllum marylandicum (Müller Hal.) E.Britton
Serpoleskea confervoides (Bridel) Loeske
Serpoleskea minutissima (Sullivant & Lesquereux) W.R.Buck & B.H.Allen
Serpoleskea subtilis (Hedwig) Loeske
Sphagnum affine Renauld & Cardot
Sphagnum bartlettianum Warnstorf
Sphagnum capillifolium (Ehrhart) Hedwig
Sphagnum centrale C.E.O.Jenson
Sphagnum compactum Lamarck & De Candolle
Sphagnum contortum Schultz
Sphagnum cuspidatum Hoffman
Sphagnum divinum Flatberg & Hassel
Sphagnum fallax (H.Klinggräff) H.Klinggräff
Sphagnum fimbriatum Wilson & Hooker
Sphagnum fuscum (Schimper) H.Klinggräff
Sphagnum girgensohnii Russow
Sphagnum inundatum Russow
Sphagnum lescurii Sullivant
Sphagnum palustre Linnaeus
Sphagnum papillosum Lindberg
Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauvois
Sphagnum riparium Ångström
Sphagnum rubellum Wilson
Sphagnum russowii Warnstoff
Sphagnum squarrosum Crome
Sphagnum subnitens Russow & Warnstorf
Sphagnum subsecundum Nees
Sphagnum teres Ångström
Sphagnum warnstorfii Russow
Sphagnum wulfianum Girgensohn
Splachnum ampullaceum Hedwig
Straminergon stramineum (Dickson ex Bridel) Hedenäs
Syntrichia laevipila Bridel
Syntrichia papillosa (Wilson) Juratzka
Syntrichia ruralis (Hedwig) F.Weber & D.Mohr
Syrrhopodon texanus Sullivant
Taxiphyllum deplanatum (Bruch & Schimper ex Sullivant) M.Fleischer
Taxiphyllum taxirameum (Mitten) M.Fleischer
Tetraphis pellucida Hedwig
Tetrodontium brownianum (Dickson) Schwägrichen
Thamnobryum alleghaniense (Müller Hal.) Nieuwland
Thelia asprella (Schimper) Sullivant
Thelia hirtella (Hedwig) Sullivant
Thelia lescurii Sullivant
Thuidium alleniorum Austin
Thuidium assimile (Mitten) A.Jaeger
Thuidium delicatulum (Hedwig) Schimper
Thuidium recognitum (Hedwig) Lindberg
Timmia megapolitana Hedwig
Tomentypnum nitens (Hedwig) Loeske
Tortella humilis (Hedwig) Jennings
Tortella inclinata (R.Hedwig) Limpricht
Tortella rigens Albertsonn
Tortella tortuosa (Hedwig) Limpricht
Tortula acaulon (Withering) R.H.Zander
Tortula cernua (Heubener) Lindberg
Tortula mucronifolia Schwägrichen
Tortula muralis Hedwig
Tortula obtusifolia (Schwägrichen) Mathieu
Tortula plinthobia (Sullivant & Lesquereux) Brotherus
Tortula porteri (James) Brotherus
Tortula truncata (Hedwig) Mitten
Trematodon longicollis Michaux
Trichostomum tenuirostre (Hooker & Taylor) Lindberg
Ulota coarctata (P.Beauvois) Hammar
Ulota crispula Bruchner
Ulota hutchinsiae (Smith) Hammar
Warnstorfia fluitans (Hedwig) Loeske
Weissia brachycarpa (Nees & Hornschuch) Juratzka
Weissia controversa Hedwig
Weissia ludoviciana (Sullivant) W.D.Reese & B.A.E.Lemmon
Weissia muhlenbergiana (Swartz) W.D.Reese & B.A.E.Lemmon
Weissia phascopsis R.H.Zander
Weissia sharpii L.E.Anderson & B.A.E.Lemmon
Zygodon rupestris Schimper ex Lorentz
