Fissidens adianthoides

Fissidens adianthoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Subclass: Dicranidae
Order: Dicranales
Family: Fissidentaceae
Genus: Fissidens
Species:
F. adianthoides
Binomial name
Fissidens adianthoides
The map shows where Fissidens adianthoides is found in North America.[1]

Fissidens adianthoides, the maidenhair pocketmoss,[2] is a moss in the family Fissidentaceae. It was first collected by Hedwig in 1801.[3]

It is found all over North America and even in Greenland and Alaska.

The Nitinaht First Nations of Vancouver Island used maidenhair moss to bandage wounds. It was named by the Anglo-Saxons because it resembles pubic hair.[4]

  1. ^ "Flora of North America".
  2. ^ Edwards, Sean R. (2012). English Names for British Bryophytes. British Bryological Society Special Volume. Vol. 5 (4 ed.). Wootton, Northampton: British Bryological Society. ISBN 978-0-9561310-2-7. ISSN 0268-8034.
  3. ^ Flora of North America Editorial Committee. "Fissidens adianthoides in Flora of North America". Flora of North America. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  4. ^ Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (Black Swan, 2004 [orig. Doubleday, 2003]), p. 435.