Leucodon sciuroides(Hedw.) Schwägr.

WFO wfo-0001163418 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Leucodon sciuroides, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 193832803
Leucodon sciuroides, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. b Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187653677
Leucodon sciuroides, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. c Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183831158
Leucodon sciuroides, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. d Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176957432
Leucodon sciuroides, photographed by Naturalista
fig. e Naturalista, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172041252
Leucodon sciuroides, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. f Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170979507
Leucodon sciuroides, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. g Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168254985
Leucodon sciuroides, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. h Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181856377

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01260308
Filed as
Leucodon sciuroides (Hedw.) Schwägr.
Det. by
R. E. Magill 2016-01-01
Collected
D. T. Steel 1972-07-13
Origin
ET
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. We link to the digitised sheet rather than rehosting it, because the holding institutions do not serve their images to third parties reliably and we are not going to show you a picture we cannot actually deliver. 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 sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,005 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -13.4 °C -5.4 °C 2.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.5 °C 23.0 °C 28.5 °C
Annual rainfall 599 mm 923 mm 1,722 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 66 mm 161 mm 335 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 2,005 research-grade observations of Leucodon sciuroides 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.

  • Cecalyphum sciuroides (Hedw.) P.Beauv.
  • Dicranum myosuroides DC.
  • Dicranum sciuroides (Hedw.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.
  • Fissidens sciuroides Hedw.
  • Fissidens sciuroides var. vaginatus Michx.
  • Fuscina sciuroides (Hedw.) Schrank ex Röhl.
  • Hypnum sciuroides (Hedw.) With.
  • Leucodon andrewsianus (H.A.Crum & L.E.Anderson) W.D.Reese & L.E.Anderson
  • Leucodon balcanicus Velen.
  • Leucodon brachypus var. andrewsianus H.A.Crum & L.E.Anderson
  • Leucodon morensis Schwägr.
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. brevisetus (Podp.) Podp.
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. crispifolius Matousch.
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. denticulatus Tosco
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. falcatus Boulay
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. gracilescens E.Bauer
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. julaceus Latzel
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. mediterraneus (J.J.Amann) Podp.
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. papillosus Mönk.
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. ramosissimus Papp
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. secundus Latzel
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. subpiliger Latzel
  • Leucodon sciuroides f. sulcatus (Podp.) Podp.
  • Leucodon sciuroides subsp. morensis (Schwägr.) Kindb.

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.

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.