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Meesia moss

Meesia triquetra

Also called Three Ranked Hump Moss, Threeranked Humpmoss, Three Angled Thread Moss

Meesia moss
Photo: Stefan Gey, CC BY-SA 4.0

Meesia triquetra is a small circumboreal peat moss that forms tufts in wet, calcium-rich fens across the Northern Hemisphere. It is a wild species, not a grown garden plant, and it needs constantly wet, mineral-rich conditions.

Family
Meesiaceae (Meesi family)
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep constantly wet, using calcium-rich water if possible.
Soil
Wet peat or calcareous fen substrate; rich, alkaline, mineral-rich.
Temperature
Cool conditions suited to boreal climates; not suited to hot climates.
How easy
Hard

About

Meesia triquetra, the three-ranked hump-moss, is a moss that occurs all around the Northern Hemisphere in higher latitudes.

Where it grows

This species has a circumboreal distribution: it is found in Northern Europe, northern Asia, Greenland, Canada, and the northern United States, Some discoveries have been reported from Oceania.

Other Meesia plants

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Meesia triquetra 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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