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Pitted Frillwort

Fossombronia foveolata

Pitted Frillwort
Photo: Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0

Pitted Frillwort is a small liverwort, a non-flowering moss-like plant, that grows on damp soil in the wild. It is not a garden or houseplant and needs constantly moist, bare ground to thrive.

Family
Fossombroniaceae (Fossombroni family)
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the substrate constantly moist; it dries out and dies quickly.
Soil
Bare, damp, acidic mineral soil or clay, often on disturbed banks or path edges.

About

Fossombronia foveolata is a species of liverwort belonging to the family Fossombroniaceae.

It is native to Europe and America.

Other Fossombronia plants

Acid Frillwort · Frillworts

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fossombronia foveolata 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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