Plagiothecium nemorale(Mitt.) A.Jaeger

WFO wfo-0001160032 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Plagiothecium nemorale, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 194831420
Plagiothecium nemorale, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68830357
Plagiothecium nemorale, photographed by George Greiff
fig. c George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67295593
Plagiothecium nemorale, photographed by George Greiff
fig. d George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49531626
Plagiothecium nemorale, photographed by George Greiff
fig. e George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47871540
Plagiothecium nemorale, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. f Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199747530
Plagiothecium nemorale, photographed by Helen Waterman
fig. g Helen Waterman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161938226
Plagiothecium nemorale, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. h Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125127369

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Where it actually grows measured, from 88 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -7.8 °C -4.2 °C 3.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.6 °C 21.5 °C 23.8 °C
Annual rainfall 580 mm 927 mm 1,522 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 94 mm 160 mm 301 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 88 research-grade observations of Plagiothecium nemorale 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 24 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.

  • Leucomium japonicum Broth. ex Ihsiba
  • Plagiothecium gracile (Jedl.) Jedl.
  • Plagiothecium neglectum Mönk.
  • Plagiothecium neglectum f. cataractarum Jedl.
  • Plagiothecium neglectum f. cavernarum Jedl.
  • Plagiothecium neglectum f. gracile Jedl.
  • Plagiothecium neglectum f. longifolium (Warnst.) Jedl.
  • Plagiothecium neglectum f. propaguliferum Jedl.
  • Plagiothecium neglectum subf. austriacum Pilous
  • Plagiothecium neglectum subf. gemmicladum Pilous
  • Plagiothecium neglectum subf. propaguliferum Jedl.
  • Plagiothecium neglectum subf. propaguliferum Jedl.
  • Plagiothecium nemorale f. nemorale
  • Plagiothecium rhizophyllum Sakurai
  • Plagiothecium saxicola Sakurai
  • Plagiothecium sylvaticum f. propaguliferum G.Roth
  • Plagiothecium sylvaticum var. denticuspe Dixon
  • Plagiothecium sylvaticum var. latifolium Cardot
  • Plagiothecium sylvaticum var. longifolium Warnst.
  • Plagiothecium sylvaticum var. neglectum (Mönk.) F.Koppe
  • Plagiothecium sylvaticum var. nemorale (Mitt.) Paris
  • Plagiothecium sylvaticum var. rhynchostegioides Cardot
  • Plagiothecium sylvaticum var. rivulare Debat
  • Stereodon nemoralis Mitt.

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.