sphagnum's Usage Examples:

deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss.

bramble are dominant on the ground layer, but there are sphagnum mosses (sphagnum palustre and Sphagnum cuspidatum) in acidic flushes, and the rare water violet.

For example, sphagnum mosses actively secrete tannins, which preserve organic material.

Beckley Bog is a sphagnum-heath-black spruce bog located near Norfolk in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

It is the southernmost sphagnum heath bog in New.

various states of decomposition (as peat), ranging from fairly intact sphagnum moss, to sedge peat, to highly decomposed humus.

The order Sphagnales contains four living genera: Sphagnum, with all but three of the species, and Ambuchanania, Eosphagnum, and Flatbergium.

The largest island, called Scoulton Heath, is mainly covered in sphagnum moss, and other plants include the nationally rare crested buckler fern.

four living genera: Ambuchanania, Eosphagnum, Flatbergium, and Sphagnum.

trees and elders are found in the shrub layer, and a pond has a raised sphagnum bog.

Sphagnum magellanicum, commonly called Magellanic bogmoss, Magellan's sphagnum, Magellan's peatmoss or midway peat moss, is a widespread species of moss.

Its main feature is a sphagnum bog that is situated in an ancient channel of the Ottawa River and is a.

dry calcareous grassland and wet alder woodland, which has carpets of sphagnum mosses.

Synonyms:

genus Sphagnum; peat moss; moss; bog moss; sphagnum moss;

Antonyms:

pleurocarp; acrocarp;