Dicranum viride(Sull. & Lesq.) Lindb.

dicranum moss

WFO wfo-0001164142 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dicranum viride, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. a Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-15 / obs. 188424427
Dicranum viride, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. b Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183789123
Dicranum viride, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. c Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183835202
Dicranum viride, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. d Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178714753
Dicranum viride, photographed by Michael
fig. e Michael, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175912684
Dicranum viride, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. f Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174895069
Dicranum viride, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. g Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179447447
Dicranum viride, photographed by Micki Colbeck
fig. h Micki Colbeck, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164012673

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Where it actually grows measured, from 257 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -15.2 °C -9.8 °C -1.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.7 °C 23.0 °C 26.0 °C
Annual rainfall 638 mm 1,086 mm 1,737 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 106 mm 212 mm 344 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 257 research-grade observations of Dicranum viride 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 18 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.

  • Campylopus fulvus subsp. viridis (Sull. & Lesq.) Kindb.
  • Campylopus viridis Sull. & Lesq.
  • Dicranum fulvum subsp. viride (Sull. & Lesq.) Lindb.
  • Dicranum fulvum var. viride (Sull. & Lesq.) Grout
  • Dicranum thraustum Schimp.
  • Dicranum viride var. dentatum Röll
  • Dicranum viride var. irroratum Molendo
  • Dicranum viride var. laeve Renauld & Cardot
  • Dicranum viride var. papillosum Warnst.
  • Dicranum viride var. robustum Loeske
  • Dicranum viride var. serrulatum Warnst.
  • Dicranum viride var. serrulatum Breidl.
  • Orthodicranum viride (Sull. & Lesq.) G.Roth ex Casares-Gil
  • Paraleucobryum viride (Sull. & Lesq.) Podp.
  • Paraleucobryum viride f. dentatum (Röll) Podp.
  • Paraleucobryum viride f. papillosum (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Paraleucobryum viride f. robustum (Loeske) Podp.
  • Paraleucobryum viride f. serrulatum (Breidl.) Podp.

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.