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Timmiella moss

Timmiella

Timmiella moss
Photo: Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0

Timmiella is a genus of small mosses in the family Timmiellaceae, found across most of the world. It is a non-flowering plant that grows in damp, shaded or lightly sunlit places, and is not grown as a garden or houseplant.

Family
Timmiellaceae (Timmiell family)
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep moist; mosses in the wild grow where the surface stays damp.
Soil
Grows on soil, rock, or bark rather than in a potting mix.

About

Timmiella is a genus of mosses in the family Timmiellaceae. The genus has an almost cosmopolitan distribution.

The genus was previously classified in the family Pottiaceae until molecular phylogenetic analysis was completed in 2014.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Timmiella 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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