Eucladium verticillatum(With.) Bruch & Schimp.

eucladium moss

WFO wfo-0001166706 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Eucladium verticillatum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-09 / obs. 198321536
Eucladium verticillatum, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152360258
Eucladium verticillatum, photographed by Randal
fig. c Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 151635544
Eucladium verticillatum, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 143312690
Eucladium verticillatum, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. e Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128599191
Eucladium verticillatum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119328276
Eucladium verticillatum, photographed by Randal
fig. g Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 109594002
Eucladium verticillatum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. h Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69339913

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Where it actually grows measured, from 207 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -8.9 °C -1.3 °C 9.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.4 °C 22.8 °C 31.2 °C
Annual rainfall 579 mm 1,023 mm 2,074 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 16 mm 190 mm 352 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 207 research-grade observations of Eucladium verticillatum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 44 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.

  • Barbula atlantica Brid.
  • Bryum verticillatum With.
  • Coscinodon elongatus Brid.
  • Coscinodon verticillatus (With.) Brid.
  • Eucladium angustifolium Głow.
  • Eucladium commutatum Głow.
  • Eucladium styriacum Głow.
  • Eucladium verticillatum f. clinotheca Besch.
  • Eucladium verticillatum f. crispum (Röll) Röll
  • Eucladium verticillatum f. gracile Röll
  • Eucladium verticillatum f. inundatum (Farneti) Podp.
  • Eucladium verticillatum f. laetevirens (J.E.Zetterst.) Podp.
  • Eucladium verticillatum f. thermale E.Bauer
  • Eucladium verticillatum f. viridissimum E.Bauer
  • Eucladium verticillatum subsp. crassinervium Podp.
  • Eucladium verticillatum subsp. styriacum (Głow.) J.J.Amann
  • Eucladium verticillatum var. acuminatum Głow.
  • Eucladium verticillatum var. angustifolium Lindb.
  • Eucladium verticillatum var. angustifolium Jur.
  • Eucladium verticillatum var. brevifolium Warnst.
  • Eucladium verticillatum var. clinotheca (Besch.) Paris
  • Eucladium verticillatum var. commutatum (Głow.) Podp.
  • Eucladium verticillatum var. crassinervium (Podp.) Podp.
  • Eucladium verticillatum var. crispatulum Röll

and 20 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.