Orthodicranum fulvum(Hook.) G.Roth ex Casares-Gil

dicranum moss

WFO wfo-0001188931 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Orthodicranum fulvum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 193852173
Orthodicranum fulvum, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. b Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191928717
Orthodicranum fulvum, photographed by Trix Niernberger
fig. c Trix Niernberger, CC0 1.0 / obs. 169914800
Orthodicranum fulvum, photographed by Violet T.
fig. d Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162545079
Orthodicranum fulvum, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. e Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157972230
Orthodicranum fulvum, photographed by Christine Young
fig. f Christine Young, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161754873
Orthodicranum fulvum, photographed by Zihao Wang
fig. g Zihao Wang, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103057112
Orthodicranum fulvum, photographed by Trix Niernberger
fig. h Trix Niernberger, CC0 1.0 / obs. 54412403

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Where it actually grows measured, from 338 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -14.4 °C -6.5 °C -1.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.2 °C 26.5 °C 31.2 °C
Annual rainfall 880 mm 1,230 mm 1,523 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 103 mm 262 mm 323 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 338 research-grade observations of Orthodicranum fulvum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 16 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 (Hook.) Kindb.
  • Dicranum fulvum Hook.
  • Dicranum fulvum f. humile Reimers
  • Dicranum fulvum f. robustum Reimers
  • Dicranum fulvum f. tenue Reimers
  • Dicranum fulvum var. decipiens Reimers
  • Dicranum longifolium var. radicabundum Brid.
  • Dicranum subfulvum Renauld & Cardot
  • Dicranum subleiodontum Cardot
  • Dicranum subsubulifolium Kindb.
  • Didymodon fulvus (Hook.) Schwägr.
  • Paraleucobryum fulvum (Hook.) Loeske
  • Paraleucobryum fulvum f. humile (Reimers) Podp.
  • Paraleucobryum fulvum f. robustum (Reimers) Podp.
  • Paraleucobryum fulvum f. tenue (Reimers) Podp.
  • Paraleucobryum fulvum var. decipiens (Reimers) 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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol DIFU3. public domain. 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.