Isothecium myosuroides, commonly known as slender mouse-tail moss[1] or tree moss, is a true moss that grows abundantly on both rocks and trees. It is native to Western and Eastern North America, as well as parts of Western Europe. [2]
It grows preferentially on angiosperms rather than on conifers because of the manner in which the former take in water creating an ideal moist habitat for the moss to grow on, and because many trees in the flowering plant families are less acidic than coniferous species of trees. Isothecium myosuroides also can grow on rocks.
^Edwards, Sean R. (2012). English Names for British Bryophytes. British Bryological Society Special Volume. Vol. 5 (4 ed.). Wootton, Northampton: British Bryological Society. ISBN 978-0-9561310-2-7. ISSN 0268-8034.
Isotheciummyosuroides, commonly known as slender mouse-tail moss or tree moss, is a true moss that grows abundantly on both rocks and trees. It is native...
microclimates. It is associated with the Type K Lobaria pulmonaria-Isotheciummyosuroides ecological Community. This community type is characterised by its...
Fifea H. A. Crum – Australasia Isothecium Brid. – widespread in the northern hemisphere (e.g. Isotheciummyosuroides) Lembophyllum Lindb. – Australasia...
predominantly eastern. There are four subcommunities: W17a : the Isotheciummyosuroides-Diplophyllum albicans subcommunity W17b : the so-called typical...
Thuidium tamariscinum are both present. Other varieties, such as Isotheciummyosuroides, Dicranum scoparium, Polytrichum formosum and Plagiothecium undulatum...
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