Aulacomnium palustre
English: Bog Bead-moss.
German: Sumpf Streifensternmoos.
Clades: Aulacomniaceae; Hypnodendrales, Bryidae, Bryanae, Bryophyta, Plants.
Habitat: in bogs, wet heaths; oddly in chalk grassland, woodland glades, road verges.
Botany
Moss; 3 to 12 cm tall; forms substantial tufts or extensive carpets, especially on drier Sphagnum hummocks.
Stems: shoots occasionally terminate in an elongated stalk with a terminal cluster of gemmae.
Leaves: pale yellow-green, contrasting strongly with the ginger-brown, felt-like rhizoids which cover the stem; crisped and twisted when dry; 4 to 6 mm long near the top of the shoot, shorter below, spearhead shaped, shortly pointed, matt and pale yellow-green.
Capsules: occasionally; curved, furrowed; 2.5 mm long.
Growth form: acrocarp.