Marchantia polymorphaL.

Common Liverwort

WFO wfo-0001196533 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Marchantia polymorpha, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. a Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205477532
Marchantia polymorpha, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. b Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204647132
Marchantia polymorpha, photographed by Michael Warner
fig. c Michael Warner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204701647
Marchantia polymorpha, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. d Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205222293
Marchantia polymorpha, photographed by Megan Blackmore
fig. e Megan Blackmore, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205698091
Marchantia polymorpha, photographed by Isaac Caswell
fig. f Isaac Caswell, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203325704
Marchantia polymorpha, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. g Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204218691
Marchantia polymorpha, photographed by Константин Селивёрстов
fig. h Константин Селивёрстов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202191334

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

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.

  • Jungermannia polymorpha (L.) Hook.f. & Taylor
  • Marchantia alpestris (Nees) Burgeff
  • Marchantia alpestris f. mamillata (I.Hagen ex Schiffn.) Damsh.
  • Marchantia aquatica (Nees) Burgeff
  • Marchantia berteroana var. antarctica Steph. ex Lamothe
  • Marchantia faurieana Steph.
  • Marchantia latifolia Gray
  • Marchantia macrocephala Corda
  • Marchantia microcephala Corda
  • Marchantia minor Gray
  • Marchantia monoica Grognot
  • Marchantia oregonensis Steph.
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. alpestris Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. angusta Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. aquatica Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. brevipedunculata Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. brevipedunculata Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. communis Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. crispa Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. denticulata Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. dilatata Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. domestica Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. domestica (Wahlenb.) Nees
  • Marchantia polymorpha f. latissima Nees

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.