Sphagnum centraleC.E.O.Jensen

sphagnum

WFO wfo-0001185614 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Sphagnum centrale, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. a Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / 2019-05-26 / obs. 117710062
Sphagnum centrale, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. b Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34826294
Sphagnum centrale, photographed by evgeniq_benihanov
fig. c evgeniq_benihanov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126262405
Sphagnum centrale, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. d Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 117710063
Sphagnum centrale, photographed by Марина Давлетшина
fig. e Марина Давлетшина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158480744
Sphagnum centrale, photographed by Марина Давлетшина
fig. f Марина Давлетшина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158480777
Sphagnum centrale, photographed by Jarmo Tahvanainen
fig. g Jarmo Tahvanainen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151439245
Sphagnum centrale, photographed by Étienne Lacroix-Carignan
fig. h Étienne Lacroix-Carignan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 138494715

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 21 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.

  • Sphagnum centrale var. carneum (Warnst.) Zick.
  • Sphagnum centrale var. compactum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum centrale var. flavofuscescens Russow ex Warnst.
  • Sphagnum centrale var. fuscescens Warnst.
  • Sphagnum centrale var. fuscoflavescens Russow ex Warnst.
  • Sphagnum centrale var. glaucescens Russow ex Warnst.
  • Sphagnum centrale var. pallescens Warnst.
  • Sphagnum centrale var. subcarneum (Warnst.) Warnst.
  • Sphagnum cymbifolium var. carneum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum intermedium (Warnst.) Russow
  • Sphagnum palustre var. centrale (C.E.O.Jensen) A.Eddy
  • Sphagnum papillosum var. intermedium Warnst.
  • Sphagnum subbicolor f. flavofuscescens Russow ex Warnst.
  • Sphagnum subbicolor f. glaucofuscescens Russow ex Warnst.
  • Sphagnum subbicolor var. brachycladum Röll ex Bott.
  • Sphagnum subbicolor var. carneum (Warnst.) Wijk & Margad.
  • Sphagnum subbicolor var. flavescens Warnst.
  • Sphagnum subbicolor var. fuscescens (Warnst.) Warnst.
  • Sphagnum subbicolor var. subcarneum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum subbicolor var. submersum Röll
  • Sphagnum subbicolor var. virescens Warnst.

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.