Lunularia cruciata, the crescent-cup liverwort, growing the corner of a little urban garden. You can see the little gemmae spilling out of the cup, which are vegetative bits that can grow into new plants!

#liverwort #lunularia #plants #cryptogam #macro #macrophotography #nature #inaturalist #vancouver #britishcolumbia #canada

Liverwort Town. Know your thalloids:

Conocephalum conicum: 🐍
Pellia ephiphylla: 🥬
Marchantia polymorpha: 😱
Lunularia cruciata: 🌙

#Liverwort #Conocephalum #Pellia #Marchantia #Lunularia #Bryophytes #Thallus

Das Mondbechermoos - unsere Pflanze des Monats Januar!

#BunteWiese #Landau #BunteWieseLandau #Biodiversity #Biodiversität #Mondbechermoos #Lunularia #Lunulariaceae #Lebermoose #Marchantiophyta #Collembola #Brutbecher

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Despite appearances, these two water lovers are, from what I can tell, not actually true #mosses.

I believe the one on the left is (probably) a patch of thallose #liverwort, most likely #Lunularia spp.

And on the right is (again, probably) a shaggy clump of #spikemoss, most likely #Selaginella spp.

Of course we still love them anyway.

Also, I plead excited amateur status here, so true moss experts please correct any of my (likely) taxonomic errors 🤓.

#Mosstodon

And because I’m me and I’ve always polluted Wildflower Hour with interloping stuff that doesn’t flower, here is a lovely Crescent-cup Liverwort (Lunularia cruciata) growing on some waste-ground near a gutter down-pipe. The little crescents produce gemmae, which are flakes of tissue that can splash out in rain and take root (well, take rhizoid) elsewhere. #WildFlowerHour #Lunularia #Liverwort