Thuidium Moss

Thuidium Moss is scientifically referred to as Thuidium delicatulum. It's a pleurocarpous evergreen perennial and forms a loose mat. Leaves are green or yellowish green, triple-pinnate or double-pinnate. The Leaf's central stems can reach 8.5 cm, having narrow scale-like densely covered up to 0.5mm. Large stems leaf, about 1mm long—broad ovate leaves to triangular-ovate shape, revolute or smooth along the margins. On the outside, it looks convex. Leaves midrib extend towards the tips.

Thuidium Moss Can Have Small Red Stalks

The compound leaf has several leafy primary radiant branches at 45-900 from the central system. The primary branches' leaves are 0.5 mm while the secondary leaves are 0.3 mm, but they all look similar except for the length difference. They share the same axis and respective central branch or stem. Stalks have spore-bearing producing capsules, which are frequently produced from them. If they occur, their length ranges from 1.5 to 4.5 cm, from light green color to dull red, smooth, and terete. At the apex, in every stalk, there is a solitary capsule bearing spores. The root system has fibrous rhizoids.

Thuidium Moss Loves Shade 

They prefer partial sun and medium shade, wet soil and moist conditions, hums or acidic soil, and protection from prevailing wind. It can grow in rotting wooden logs or weathered sandstone rock where areas are protected, moist, and shaded like wooden ravines. It occasionally occurs in east-central, northeast, and southern parts of Illinois, and the rest of the state becomes absent or uncommon. It is widely distributed in North America. In Illinois, the habitat is humus, ground soil, hillsides and wooded bluffs, swampy woods, pine groves at the northern edge, tree bases, shaded creek banks, hummocks in tamarack swamps, wet sandstone, underneath trees along the rivers. It is mainly found in areas with high-quality nature.

Birds Love Thuidium Moss For Their Nests

It can be used as material for nest construction by birds and food for frozen woolly mammoths as it was found in its digestive tract even though it is not known to have been eaten accidentally or not. Offer the small vertebrates and invertebrates protection when they form colonial mats. Thuidium Moss is referred to as among the most attractive in Illinois. They have become packing materials, hanging basket liners, terrariums, and soil-potted plant covers.