Palustriella commutata(Hedw.) Ochyra

palustriella moss

WFO wfo-0001195848 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Palustriella commutata, photographed by Andreas Stiller
fig. a Andreas Stiller, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205137542
Palustriella commutata, photographed by Johan Kjær Prehn
fig. b Johan Kjær Prehn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190597720
Palustriella commutata, photographed by Andreas Stiller
fig. c Andreas Stiller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183733450
Palustriella commutata, photographed by Johan Kjær Prehn
fig. d Johan Kjær Prehn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148283803
Palustriella commutata, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. e Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128599118
Palustriella commutata, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126886457
Palustriella commutata, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. g Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113618255
Palustriella commutata, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. h Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95882430

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Where it actually grows measured, from 568 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -10.8 °C -3.7 °C 2.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.6 °C 21.6 °C 26.0 °C
Annual rainfall 618 mm 1,169 mm 2,061 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 107 mm 201 mm 353 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 568 research-grade observations of Palustriella commutata 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 84 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.

  • Amblystegium commutatum (Hedw.) De Not.
  • Amblystegium commutatum var. elegantulum De Not.
  • Amblystegium commutatum var. fluctuans (Schimp.) De Not.
  • Amblystegium falcatum var. fluctuans (Schimp.) Anzi
  • Amblystegium glaucum (DC.) Lindb.
  • Amblystegium irrigatum (J.E.Zetterst.) Venturi & Bott.
  • Cratoneuron commutatovirescens J.J.Amann
  • Cratoneuron commutatum (Hedw.) Loeske
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. brachycladum (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. cataractarum Papp
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. diversifolium (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. elegantulum (De Not.) Mönk.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. fastigiatum (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. flagellaceum Grom
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. flavofuscescens (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. fluctuans (Schimp.) Mönk.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. gracile (Cardot) Podp.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. janzenii Loeske
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. leptoneurum (Loeske) Podp.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. pachyneuron (Schimp.) Mönk.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. percrassicostatum (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum f. robustius (Warnst.) Podp.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum subsp. irrigatum (J.E.Zetterst.) Giacom.
  • Cratoneuron commutatum subsp. ptychodioides (G.Roth) J.J.Amann

and 60 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.