This beautiful moss is widespread in shady or damp places in Britain and is seen here from a woodland site in north Mull. Developing fruiting bodies (capsules), each on a long red stalk (seta) can be seen arising from some plants slightly right and above centre in this image. Sept. 9th 2011, Image I11-0212
This moss is seen in its dry condition here on a wall in the open near the entrance to Clear Lake State Park (Lake County, California) on March 29th 2012. Image I12-0089.
A couple of stems of the moss Pleurozium schreberi are visible in the upper left third of the image, and the bright green upright moss at center right is a Polytrichum sp. (?P. commune). In shrubby hollows in coastal dunes north of Coos Bay, Oregon, March 1999. Scanned slide 021 004