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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

In Love with Bryophytes

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"The importance of bryophytes (and lichens) in British Columbia is considerable. With over 850 species of mosses and hepatics, the province's bryoflora is one of the richest in North America and contains the largest percentage of endemic species and genera on the continent."

In Plants of the Souther Interior - Parish, Coupe, Lloyd - they state that there are close to 1,000 Bryophytes in BC. Pretty impressive I'd say.

My knowldege of bryoflora is somewhat (okay - very) limited, but nonetheless, they are near and dear to my little British Columbian heart. And I aim to learn more - a lot more about them.

If you're interested too, here's a start http://www.cmiae.org/_PDF/reference148.pdf

Long Time ~ No Post!

I love plants so much that I much prefer to be out in the forest or down by the river or in my garden or even reading about them, than writing about them!

Most of my posts about plants these days are to be found on my Facebook page(s), however, in recognition that not everyone in the world is a FB user (and I say good on you if that's the case) I'm going to make a concerted effort to post to my poor neglected blog.

So next up...a little bit - a real little bit - about Bryophytes!