Name: Drummondia ProrepensCommon name: n/a
Family: Drummondiaceae
Family: Drummondiaceae
Collection Date:
Habitat: damp soil
Location: South Chagrin Reservation
Description: Matted, dark green moss
Collector: Janie Lawson
Key used: Conard, H.S. and P.L. Redfearn, Jr. 1979. How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, Mass.
Keying Steps:
Introduction Key pg. 19
1b.Plants with stems and leaves, leaves equally spaced around stem…Class III Musci…2
2b. Plants not having many spreading recurved branches and leaves with two types of cells…3
3b. Plants not in reddish brown tufts…Subclass Bryidae
Key to Families/Genera of Bryidae pg. 28
1b. Green plants; if empty cells occur only at base, apex, or margin of leaf...3
3b. Leaves in three or more rows, but sometimes flattened...7
7b. Plants with peristome of more than 4 teeth, gemmae when present not arranged in cup...8
8b. Leaves well developed and persistant...9
9b. Plants not having sessile, inclined, asymmetric, immersed capsule ...10
10b. Plants with or without a distinct stem; capsule when presnt with an operculum; may or may not be ephemeral....17
17b. Plants minute to large, capsules, immersed to exserted; if minute with immersed capsules, growing on rocks, trees, or soil and not ephemeral...20
20b. Plants without photosynthetic growths on leaves…28
17b. Plants minute to large, capsules, immersed to exserted; if minute with immersed capsules, growing on rocks, trees, or soil and not ephemeral...20
20b. Plants without photosynthetic growths on leaves…28
28b. Peristome single or double; growing on various substrates, but not restricted to rich organic soil or other organic matter…33
33a. Stems erect, unbranched or branches erect; generally in tufts…34
34b. Leaves, especially bases not as above…36
36b. Leaf cells smooth…83
83b. Plants growing on trees and forming long creeping stems…84
84a. Cells near base of leaf small and round, capsule ovoid-globulose; widespread in eastern United States…Drummondia
Key to Family Orthotrichaceae- Genus Drummondia
Drummondia prorepens
Plants in dark-green thin mats produced by numerous branches arising from a creeping stem.
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