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Blandow's helodium moss

Helodium blandowii

Also called Blandow's Tamarisk Moss

Blandow's helodium moss
Photo: Andr Hospr, CC BY 4.0

Blandow's helodium moss is a circumboreal moss that grows in calcareous, moderately rich fens and mires, forming mats and small hummocks. It is a wild bog moss rather than a garden or houseplant.

Family
Helodiaceae (Helodi family)
Water
Lives in permanently wet, calcareous fen water; not a cultivated plant to water.
Soil
Moist, mineral-rich peat or wet calcareous substrate in fens and mires.
Temperature
Cool-temperate to boreal conditions; tolerates cold northern climates.

About

Helodium blandowii, also known as Blandow's helodium moss, Blandow's tamarisk-moss, Blandow's bogmoss, and Blandow's feathermoss, is a common moss species in Europe. It is also found in North America, Central Asia and Greenland. It is considered rare plant in the Western U.S., including Oregon and California. It occurs all around the northern hemisphere in higher latitudes, and in some places is not as rare as in the Western U.S.

Where it grows

This species has a circumboreal distribution.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Helodium blandowii 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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