Campylium chrysophyllum(Brid.) Lange

goldenleaf campylium moss

WFO wfo-0001178294 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Campylium chrysophyllum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 195027324
Campylium chrysophyllum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126658157
Campylium chrysophyllum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125975241
Campylium chrysophyllum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69917253
Campylium chrysophyllum, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. e Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 66622583
Campylium chrysophyllum, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. f Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 176893238
Campylium chrysophyllum, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. g Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 166435236
Campylium chrysophyllum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. h Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119329477

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04469111
Filed as
Campylium chrysophyllum (Brid.) Lange
Det. by
H. E. Robinson
Collected
C. F. Reed 1962-06-18
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Where it actually grows measured, from 119 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -12.5 °C -6.7 °C 2.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.9 °C 23.8 °C 31.6 °C
Annual rainfall 463 mm 1,163 mm 1,594 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 78 mm 219 mm 312 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 119 research-grade observations of Campylium chrysophyllum 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 73 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.

  • Amblystegium chrysophyllum (Brid.) De Not.
  • Amblystegium chrysophyllum var. erectum (Bagn.) Braithw.
  • Amblystegium chrysophyllum var. tenellum (Schimp.) H.A.Möller
  • Amblystegium geophilum Stirt.
  • Campyliadelphus chrysophyllus (Brid.) R.S.Chopra
  • Campyliadelphus chrysophyllus (Brid.) Kanda
  • Campylium chrysophyllum f. attenuatum Podp.
  • Campylium chrysophyllum f. erectum (Bagn.) Podp.
  • Campylium chrysophyllum f. pinnatifidum (Thér.) Podp.
  • Campylium chrysophyllum f. subfalcatum Podp.
  • Campylium chrysophyllum var. alpinum (J.J.Amann) Podp.
  • Campylium chrysophyllum var. brevifolium (Renauld & Cardot) Grout
  • Campylium chrysophyllum var. carolinianum Grout
  • Campylium chrysophyllum var. chrysophyllum
  • Campylium chrysophyllum var. intercedens (E.Bauer) Podp.
  • Campylium chrysophyllum var. pinnatifidum Thér.
  • Campylium chrysophyllum var. serratum (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Campylium chrysophyllum var. tenellum (Schimp.) G.Roth
  • Campylium courtoisii Broth. & Paris
  • Campylium pseudochrysophyllum (Warnst.) Reimers
  • Campylium rufochryseum (Schimp. ex Besch.) Broth.
  • Campylium sinuolatum (Kindb.) Kindb.
  • Campylium sommerfeltii var. seminerve Cardot
  • Campylium subsecundum Broth.

and 49 more.

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.