Moss is very small! This means you need detailed close-ups to tell what's going on. A wide shot of it can help to give context clues for the habitat, but without a detailed photo they tend to look like green blobs.

There will be some mosses that need very specific details to narrow it down to which species it belongs to, and some that need to be looked at under a microscope. However, zooming in and capturing what the little leaves look like can get you a long way. If you see a sporophyte coming from it, (ie the small stick with a ball/capsule on the end), that's also an important detail to record.

(Generic format for copy-paste onto undetailed moss observations. I would like to include pictures in the future.)

Posted on December 15, 2022 06:34 PM by spinescence