Bryoandersonia illecebra(Hedw.) H.Rob.

bryoandersonia moss

WFO wfo-0001182893 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bryoandersonia illecebra, photographed by Natalie Waddell-Rutter
fig. a Natalie Waddell-Rutter, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 203386828
Bryoandersonia illecebra, photographed by Taro Ietaka
fig. b Taro Ietaka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194864342
Bryoandersonia illecebra, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. c Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191149993
Bryoandersonia illecebra, photographed by Ava
fig. d Ava, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186250269
Bryoandersonia illecebra, photographed by John Ambler
fig. e John Ambler, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184418423
Bryoandersonia illecebra, photographed by Elias
fig. f Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183638548
Bryoandersonia illecebra, photographed by Cecil Smith
fig. g Cecil Smith, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183987722
Bryoandersonia illecebra, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. h Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183416183

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Where it actually grows measured, from 1,972 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -6.5 °C -2.1 °C 2.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.4 °C 30.2 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,025 mm 1,235 mm 1,521 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 197 mm 260 mm 319 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 1,972 research-grade observations of Bryoandersonia illecebra 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 9 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.

  • Arrhenopterum illecebrum (Hedw.) Steud.
  • Cirriphyllum boscii (Schwägr.) Grout
  • Cirriphyllum illecebrum (Hedw.) L.F.Koch
  • Eurhynchium boscii (Schwägr.) Austin
  • Hypnum boscii Schwägr.
  • Hypnum illecebrum Hedw.
  • Hypnum illecebrum var. americanum Brid.
  • Myurium boscii (Schwägr.) Kindb.
  • Plagiothecium boscii (Schwägr.) Schimp.

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.