Entodon cladorrhizans(Hedw.) Müll.Hal.

entodon moss

WFO wfo-0001166012 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Entodon cladorrhizans, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. a Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-21 / obs. 117047967

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02709991
Filed as
Entodon cladorrhizans (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.
Det. by
W. R. Buck 2016-11-29
Collected
D. M. DuMond 2016-09-30
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 164 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -14.7 °C -8.4 °C 5.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.2 °C 26.4 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 845 mm 1,105 mm 1,431 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 101 mm 215 mm 291 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 164 research-grade observations of Entodon cladorrhizans 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 21 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 cladorrhizans (Hedw.) Huebener
  • Cylindrothecium aciculare (Müll.Hal. & Kindb.) Renauld & Cardot
  • Cylindrothecium cladorrhizans (Hedw.) Schimp.
  • Cylindrothecium compressum (Hedw.) Schimp.
  • Entodon acicularis Müll.Hal. & Kindb.
  • Entodon cladorrhizans subsp. acicularis (Müll.Hal. & Kindb.) Grout
  • Entodon cladorrhizans subsp. transylvanicus (Demet.) Kindb.
  • Entodon compressus (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.
  • Entodon compressus var. compressus
  • Entodon schleicheri subsp. transsylvanicus (Demet.) Kindb.
  • Entodon transsylvanicus Demet.
  • Entodon verruculosus X.S.Wen
  • Hypnum compressum (Hedw.) Arn.
  • Hypnum muhlenbergii P.Beauv.
  • Hypnum pensilvanicum Poir.
  • Isothecium cladorrhizans (Hedw.) Schimp.
  • Isothecium compressum (Hedw.) Hampe
  • Leskea compressa Hedw.
  • Neckera cladorrhizans Hedw.
  • Neckera cladorrhizans var. arborea DC.
  • Neckera compressa (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.

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.