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Creeping Fingerwort

Lepidozia reptans

Creeping Fingerwort
Photo: Bernd Haynold, CC BY-SA 3.0

Lepidozia reptans is a small creeping liverwort, a non-flowering moss-like plant, found worldwide on damp soil, rotting wood and rock. It is not a garden plant and is grown only as a curiosity in terrariums or bryophyte collections, where constant moisture and shade are the key.

Family
Lepidoziaceae (Lepidozi family)
Light
Shade, Part shade
Water
Keep constantly damp; mist or spray regularly rather than watering from the top.
Soil
Does not root in soil; grows on bark, decaying wood, rock or moist substrate.
Temperature
10–20 °C; avoid prolonged heat above 25 °C.
How easy
Hard

About

Lepidozia reptans is a species of liverwort belonging to the family Lepidoziaceae.

It has cosmopolitan distribution.

Other Lepidozia plants

Lepidozia bragginsiana · Pearson's Fingerwort · Lepidozia ulothrix · Lepidozia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepidozia reptans 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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