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Fontinalis antipyretica, greater water-moss, or common water moss, is a species of submerged aquatic moss belonging to the subclass Bryidae. It is found in both still and flowing freshwater in Europe, Asia, Greenland and Africa. In North America it is found in most Canadian provinces with a seaboard and most US states except the most southern.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Willow 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
- Fontinalis hypnoides
- Fontinalis neomexicana
- Fontinalis novae-angliae
- Fontinalis squamosa
- Fissidens fontanus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Bryophyta
- Class
- Bryopsida
- Order
- Hypnales
- Family
- Fontinalaceae
- Genus
- Fontinalis
- Species
- Fontinalis antipyretica
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