Pleurozium schreberi

Rotstängelmoos

The Rotstängelmoos ( Pleurozium schreberi ) is a common European moss forests and heaths.

Features

It is strong Moose with up to 15 cm long stems. At the front end, they are loose, but regularly simply pinnate, more or less. The stems themselves are red in most plants and shimmer through the pale green leaves.

The leaves of the stems are broadly ovate and front with a blunt tip. They are hollow and are tile- shaped each other so that the stems look like little worms. The leaves of the branches are similar, but narrower. A midrib is missing or short and double.

Capsules are rarely made ​​of this Moose.

Dissemination

The Rotstängelmoos occurs in temperate and cool regions of the northern hemisphere and in the Andes. In the mountains it rises up above the tree line. In the forests of the Northern Hemisphere, it is one of the most common mosses and can artreine mass inventory form on the forest floor. Just as often, but it also grows in society other mosses such as Hylocomium splendens, Hypnum Dicranum scoparium or cupressiforme.

It prefers acidic soils. Otherwise, it is quite undemanding. You meet it in forests, heaths and moors.

Others

The moss was named after the German botanist Johann Christian Daniel Schreber, a pupil of Linnaeus named.

Since the nature of metals and other pollutants accumulate strong, whose concentration can be used in the plant for the study of pollutants ( bio-indicators ).