Pohlia nutans(Hedw.) Lindb.

pohlia moss

WFO wfo-0001160242 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pohlia nutans, photographed by abogomazova
fig. a abogomazova, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203469199
Pohlia nutans, photographed by Павлик Лисицын
fig. b Павлик Лисицын, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198079531
Pohlia nutans, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193860259
Pohlia nutans, photographed by George Greiff
fig. d George Greiff, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158596020
Pohlia nutans, photographed by Екатерина Войнова
fig. e Екатерина Войнова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127138884
Pohlia nutans, photographed by Andrey Sdobnikov
fig. f Andrey Sdobnikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126686325
Pohlia nutans, photographed by Igor Balashov
fig. g Igor Balashov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125827990
Pohlia nutans, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. h Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126882747

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Where it actually grows measured, from 610 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -17.3 °C -9.5 °C 0.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.0 °C 22.5 °C 27.0 °C
Annual rainfall 479 mm 687 mm 1,474 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 56 mm 108 mm 291 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 610 research-grade observations of Pohlia nutans 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 207 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.

  • Bryum afronutans Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum austronutans Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum basalticum Warnst. & Geh.
  • Bryum bealeyense R.Br.bis
  • Bryum beccarii Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum bicolor (Hornsch.) Brid.
  • Bryum bimum var. implexum (Sw.) Hartm.
  • Bryum caespitosum (Hornsch.) Brid.
  • Bryum canaliculatum (Müll.Hal. & Kindb.) Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum compactum Dicks.
  • Bryum cucullatiforme Kindb.
  • Bryum ecklonianum Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum gelidum I.Hagen
  • Bryum gypsophilum Wallr.
  • Bryum humidulum Sull. & Lesq.
  • Bryum implexum Sw.
  • Bryum interruptum Dicks.
  • Bryum laxum Reichardt
  • Bryum leptopelmatum Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum longifolium Müll.Hal. & Hampe
  • Bryum longisetum Brid.
  • Bryum montanum Müll.Hal.
  • Bryum nigricans Dicks.
  • Bryum nutans (Hedw.) Turner

and 183 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.