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Buxbaumia aphylla

Hedw.

Bug-on-a-Stick Moss

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Identity

Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.126502

Element CodeNBMUS1B010

Record TypeSPECIES

ClassificationSpecies

Classification StatusStandard

Name CategoryNonvascular Plant

Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations

KingdomPlantae

PhylumBryophyta

ClassBryopsida

OrderBuxbaumiales

FamilyBuxbaumiaceae

GenusBuxbaumia

Other Common Names

Gnome discret (FR)

Concept Reference

Anderson, L.E., H.A. Crum, and W.R. Buck. 1990. List of the mosses of North America north of Mexico. The Bryologist 93(4):448-499.

Conservation Status

Rank MethodExpertise without calculation

Review Date2017-07-25

Change Date2017-07-25

Edition Date2001-01-12

Edition AuthorsBelland René J.

Rank Reasons

Buxbaumia aphylla is a widely distributed species in the northern hemisphere. It is known from 40 vice-counties in Great Britain, at least 76 sites In southeastern Newfoundland, and 13 locations in Ontario. The species is widespread in Fennoscandia.

Range Extent Comments

Buxbaumia aphylla is ". widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere: Greenland; central Alaska and the Yukon to British Columbia and Montana; Michigan and Ontario to Newfoundland, southward along the Coastal Plain and also in the mountains to North Carolina. Also reported from arctic Alaska, Colorado, eastern Iowa, and southern Illinois" (Crum & Anderson 1981). Smith (1980) gives the ranges as Europe, Caucasus, N. Asia, Japan, N. America and New Zealand. Found throughout Fennoscandia (Nyholm 1954-69). Schofield (1974) provides a generalized world map of the species.

Occurrences Comments

Known from 40 vice-counties in Great Britain (Smith 1980). In southeastern Newfoundland, collected from 76 sites (citations given, Hancock & Brassard 1973). In Ontario, map shows 13 locations (Ireland & Ley 1992).

Ecology & Habitat

Habitat

In North America, a pioneer of disturbed, acid, sandy or clayey soils, often on the banks of roads or woodland trails, sometimes on old logs and stumps, exposed or in partial shade in moist forests and also dry, open woods, often successional to fire (Crum & Anderson 1981). In southeastern Newfoundland it occurs in Kalmia heaths (Hancock & Brassard 1973).

Other Nations (2)

CanadaN5

Province	Rank	Native
New Brunswick	S2	Yes
Prince Edward Island	S3	Yes
Ontario	S2	Yes
Quebec	S3	Yes
Northwest Territories	S1	Yes
Island of Newfoundland	S4	Yes
Saskatchewan	SU	Yes
Yukon Territory	S2	Yes
Nova Scotia	S4	Yes
Alberta	S2	Yes
British Columbia	S4	Yes

United StatesNNR

Province	Rank	Native
Minnesota	S3	Yes
Massachusetts	SNR	Yes
Connecticut	SNR	Yes
New Jersey	SNR	Yes
Wyoming	SNR	Yes
Oregon	S3	Yes
Wisconsin	S1	Yes
Washington	S3	Yes
Virginia	SNR	Yes
Pennsylvania	S5	Yes
Alaska	SNR	Yes
Maine	SNR	Yes
Delaware	SNR	Yes
Tennessee	S1	Yes
New Hampshire	SNR	Yes
Ohio	S1	Yes
Illinois	SNR	Yes
Rhode Island	SNR	Yes
Idaho	S1	Yes
Indiana	SNR	Yes
New York	SNR	Yes
Montana	SNR	Yes
Michigan	SNR	Yes
Vermont	S2	Yes
California	SNR	Yes
Iowa	SNR	Yes
North Carolina	SH	Yes
Colorado	S1	Yes

Plant Characteristics

Economic Value (Genus)No

Roadless Areas (2)

Idaho (1)

Area	Forest	Acres
Secesh	Payette National Forest	248,088

Oregon (1)

Area	Forest	Acres
Lick Creek	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	1,956

References (8)

Anderson, L.E., H.A. Crum, and W.R. Buck. 1990. List of the mosses of North America north of Mexico. The Bryologist 93(4):448-499.
Crum, H., and L.E. Anderson. 1981. Mosses of Eastern North America. 2 Vols. Columiba University Press. N.Y.
Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). 2007b. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 27. Bryophytes: Mosses, Part 1. Oxford University Press, New York. xxi + 713 pp.
Hancock, J.A., and G.R. Brassard. 1973. <i>Buxbaumia aphylla</i> Hedw. in southeastern Newfoundland, Canada. Bryologist 76: 187-191.
Ireland, R.R. and L.M. Ley. 1992. Atlas of Ontario Mosses. Syllogeus No. 70, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa. 138 pp.
Nyholm, E. 1954-69. Illustrated moss flora of Fennoscandia. II. Musci. Fascicles1- 4. Gleerups, Lund; Fascicles 5-6, Swedish Natural Science Research Council, Stockholm.
Schofield, W.B. 1976. Bryophytes of British Columbia III: habitat and distributional information for selected mosses. Syesis 9: 317-354.
Smith, A.J.E. 1980. The moss flora of Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.