Bryophytes

Bryophytes are an informal group consisting of three divisions of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts and mosses. The Paradise Reserve has great habitat for bryophytes, because of the shady north facing slopes and an abundance of boulders and trunks that provide a surface for them to grow.

Amanda Heinrich is surveying Bryophytes at Paradise Reserve. The survey requires collecting small samples of mosses and bringing them to a laboratory to be checked under a microscope. Mosses can be kept dry in a paper envelope and later re-hydrated for future studies.

Kipp Callahan (left) and Amanda Heinrich (right) investigating a Liverwort (Cryptomitrium tenerum).