| Scientific Name: | Bryophyta (Division) |
| Common Name: | moss |
| Family Name: | (various) |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | < 0.1m x < 0.1m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Irregular, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Simple, Spiraled, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Ovate, Other, Entire |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Sporangium (spores), Green, Brown, May-Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Microphylls of most species are between 1-12mm long and 1-3mm wide, veins absent but most have a midrib-like "costa"; capsules 2-5mm long x ~1mm wide, each form at the tips of the seta or stalk and initially has a pointy covering (the calyptra). | |