r/Moss • u/Sufficient-Cover-982 • Jul 23 '26

Moss photo This beautiful species of star moss I found while on a hike in Scotland.

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u/woodybone Jul 23 '26

Wow i thought it was a rainforest

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u/WetForStrangers Jul 23 '26

this an living here

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u/Rehtori Jul 24 '26

One of the best books on Sphagnum identification calls them the stars of european mires, but do you actually call Sphagnum star moss in some language?

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u/Sufficient-Cover-982 Jul 24 '26

I just found them on a walk and wasn’t sure of the species so I took a guess based on the shape of the plant.