In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic tree—bryophytes and seedless vascular plants, like mosses and ferns. These plants are the ...

One of Mossin' Annie's moss installation projects was enhancing a stonehenge garden. Take some lessons and advice from a passionate mosser. How does moss grow? What are some bryophytes examples?

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, ...

This story was updated August 15, 2023, to correct that Takakia has seen four mass extinctions (not three) and branched off mosses (not all bryophytes) 390 million years ago. A version of this ...

True mosses are Bryophytes, a classification of plants that are defined by being nonvascular, organisms that have no vessels of their own to transport water or nutrients. Think of a tree stump.

Last week’s Over the Garden Gate article focused on growing healthy turfgrass and various turf management practices to control or eliminate moss from your lawn. The focus of this article is on ...

When it comes to plants, there are some that really command attention, like majestic redwoods or elegant roses. And then…. there's moss, which doesn't usually get a lot of love, or even get ...

Moss is the tiny superstar of the plant world ... Along with their cousins liverworts and hornworts, they are known as bryophytes. Tracing their origins back 450 million years, these plants ...

Moss and similar plants like liverworts and hornworts collectively are known as bryophytes. They reproduce by spores instead of seeds. Bryophytes play a very important role in the environment ...

However, new research carried out by the John Innes Centre has found that non-flowering bryophytes, and mosses in particular, contain sophisticated immune receptor repertoires. “The non-vascular ...

Mosses are members of the Bryophytes family, which is a group of non-vascular land plants. Non-vascular means these plants do not have internal “plumbing” (xylem and phloem) for the transport ...