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Sphagnum wulfianum
Also called Wulf's Peatmoss, Wulf's Peat Moss
Wulf's peatmoss is a green, rigid peat moss from boreal forests and mire edges across Eurasia and North America. It is a moss, not a flowering plant, and is grown only in moist, cool, boggy conditions.
Sphagnum wulfianum, commonly known as Wulf's peatmoss, is a species of moss belonging to the family Sphagnaceae. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring primarily in moist boreal forest environments across Eurasia and North America, with rare occurrences in Arctic tundra regions. The species is morphologically distinctive among peat mosses, characterised by having six to twelve branches per fascicle, a unique feature in the genus. First described in 1860 from Estonia, it typically grows in boggy mineral-rich spruce forests and at the borders of mires, forming small carpets and hummocks.
Sphagnum wulfianum has a circumboreal distribution. In Europe, it is primarily found in Fennoscandia, where it has its main European population centre, and Russia, including Asian Russia, with additional scattered populations in the Baltic states, eastern Poland, and Romania, where it is considered one of the rarest Sphagnum species. The species reaches its westernmost European limit at the Atlantic coast of Norway in the Åfjord Municipality of Central Norway. The species occurs from sea level up to 1,100 m (3,600 ft) in elevation.
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