AKA worm or spoon moss, this versatile, shiny species looks a bit like shag carpeting and its translucent leaves add to its green color intensity. In sunnier places it will take on golden overtones.

How to use this book -- Key features -- Key features path to the keys -- How to look at a moss -- Collecting mosses -- What are mosses? -- Basic structure of mosses -- Life history of mosses -- What ...