New York Flora Association Blog

Not noted for their speed and agility, the individuals in this species of peat moss are “the most genetically uniform widespread group of plants known.” It turns out that each individual Sphagnum subnitens in northwestern North America is genetically identical and descended from a single parent plant. READ MORE

Sphagnum subnitens. Photo by Eric Karlin.

This entry was posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:51 am and is filed under Bryophytes. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site.