Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Large mammals and exotic plants get all the attention, and conservation efforts are often directed at protecting them. Who who protects our mosses? This often-neglected group of non-vascular lower ...

Bryophytes are an important part of our environment, but in the tropics, there’s still much to learn about them. Vanessa Crooks Bryophytes in the tropics are threatened due to lack of information and ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Bryophytes, comprising mosses, liverworts and hornworts, possess a unique and diverse chemical repertoire that has attracted increasing research attention. Their natural products include an array of ...

Researchers of Kumamoto University in Japan have succeeded in the world's first visualization of a peptidoglycan 'wall' present in the chloroplasts of bryophytes (moss plants). Until now, chloroplasts ...

Our bryophyte collection contains moss and liverwort specimens (56,000 accessioned with about 100,000 currently being cataloged) collected world-wide. About 25% of the collection is from the Americas, ...

Bryhnia graminicolor (Brid.) Grout is reported new to the state of Texas. A distribution map of B. graminicolor is provided for the south central states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, ...

Why while away retirement on the golf course when you could become a moss expert and hunt down some of the least studied plants in New Mexico’s national parks? When Russ Kleinman retired from a ...

The aquatic moss vegetation in 69 originally low-alkaline, shallow pools and lakes in The Netherlands is related to the physico-chemical condition of the water and the morphometric characteristics and ...