Anomodon viticulosus(Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor

anomodon moss

WFO wfo-0001191847 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anomodon viticulosus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. a Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 201285785
Anomodon viticulosus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. b Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201505742
Anomodon viticulosus, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195027098
Anomodon viticulosus, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195027652
Anomodon viticulosus, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194831095
Anomodon viticulosus, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190278199
Anomodon viticulosus, photographed by Markus Krieger
fig. g Markus Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177253972
Anomodon viticulosus, photographed by Katrin Simon
fig. h Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175050664

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Where it actually grows measured, from 1,985 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -9.5 °C -3.0 °C 2.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.5 °C 23.0 °C 26.8 °C
Annual rainfall 596 mm 877 mm 1,657 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 97 mm 164 mm 307 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,985 research-grade observations of Anomodon viticulosus that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anomodon decurrens Cardot
  • Anomodon subintegerrimus Broth. & Paris
  • Anomodon tonkinensis Besch.
  • Anomodon tonkinensis var. leptoclados Besch.
  • Anomodon viticulosus f. latifolius M.Fleisch.
  • Anomodon viticulosus f. rivularis (Farneti) Podp.
  • Anomodon viticulosus var. angustifolius Kindb.
  • Anomodon viticulosus var. mexicanus Renauld & Cardot
  • Anomodon viticulosus var. microphyllus Kindb.
  • Anomodon viticulosus var. rivularis Farneti
  • Haptymenium viticulosum (Hedw.) Fürnr.
  • Hypnum viticulosum (Hedw.) With.
  • Leskea viticulosa (Hedw.) Spruce
  • Neckera schlechtendalii Piep.
  • Neckera viticuliformis Piep.
  • Neckera viticulosa Hedw.
  • Neckera viticulosa var. major Arn.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.