Sphagnum pulchrum(Lindb. ex Braithw.) Warnst.

golden bog-mosssphagnum

WFO wfo-0001190033 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 pulchrum, photographed by Andrew Melton
fig. a Andrew Melton, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-10-14 / obs. 54066923
Sphagnum pulchrum, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. b Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102934642
Sphagnum pulchrum, photographed by Andrew Melton
fig. c Andrew Melton, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54066948
Sphagnum pulchrum, photographed by Andrew Melton
fig. d Andrew Melton, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54066905
Sphagnum pulchrum, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. e Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190162031
Sphagnum pulchrum, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. f Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190162156
Sphagnum pulchrum, photographed by Young Jun Lee
fig. g Young Jun Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190162284
Sphagnum pulchrum, photographed by Kristof Zyskowski
fig. h Kristof Zyskowski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102957569

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 intermedium var. pulchrum Lindb. ex Braithw.
  • Sphagnum pulchrum f. gracilescens Naveau
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. brachycladum Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. capitatum Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. compactum Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. densum Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. falcatum Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. flagellare Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. fuscoflavescens (Warnst.) Warnst.
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. homocladum Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. laxum Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. majus Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. nigricans Warnst.
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. pallidum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. sordidofuscum Warnst.
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. strictforme Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. submersum Röll
  • Sphagnum pulchrum var. virescens Warnst.
  • Sphagnum recurvum f. fuscoflavescens Warnst.
  • Sphagnum recurvum subsp. pulchrum (Lindb. ex Braithw.) Bom. & Broth.
  • Sphagnum recurvum var. pulchrum (Lindb. ex Braithw.) 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.