Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Rusty Ragged 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
- Sciuro-hypnum populeum
- Brachythecium salebrosum
- Homomallium incurvatum
- Brachythecium rivulare
- Plasteurhynchium striatulum
- Hygrohypnum luridum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Bryophyta
- Class
- Bryopsida
- Order
- Hypnales
- Family
- Brachytheciaceae
- Genus
- Sciuro-hypnum
- Species
- Sciuro-hypnum plumosum
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