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White Earwort

Diplophyllum albicans

White Earwort
Photo: HermannSchachner, CC0

White Earwort is a small leafy liverwort, a non-flowering moss-like plant that grows on damp acidic ground, rock and rotting wood across Eurasia and North America. It is a wild bryophyte and is not grown as a garden or houseplant.

Family
Scapaniaceae (Scapani family)
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keeps moist in its natural habitat; it needs constant damp conditions rather than watering.
Soil
Acidic, humus-rich, damp substrates such as peaty soil, rock crevices or rotting wood.

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Diplophyllum albicans is a species of liverwort belonging to the family Scapaniaceae.

It is native to Eurasia and Northern America.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diplophyllum albicans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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