Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Side-fruited Crisp-moss being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Leptodontium paradoxum
- Pseudocrossidium crinitum
- Barbula calycina
- Didymodon torquatus
- Syntrichia ruraliformis
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Bryophyta
- Class
- Bryopsida
- Order
- Pottiales
- Family
- Pottiaceae
- Genus
- Tortella
- Species
- Tortella squarrosa
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