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Basing on photomicrographs, I think it may be Syntrichia sp., but I'm familiar with european boreal mosses only. Also now I'm not sure about compliance of collected samples with the field photo 🤨

Nice illustration of the dorsal leaf bases wrapping and forming a criscross pattern on the top of the stem.

On granite, 850m alt.

D6

Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Rock face

@terrymcintosh ??? The one capsule I found was ~0.8mm. Distal leaves with short to moderate awns, lower leaves almost all muticous.

abundant reddish black patches on limestone

In furrow of trunk on hardwood

large bronze moss in mid stream bog

146 growing on Quercus sp.

Tentative ID without samples collected, but present in hydrated soil pockets in depressions of granite flatrock

Soil in old truck tracks. Seems like the other end of variation to barnesii, but I don't know much about the two taxa.

1. On glacial lucustrine clays

On a dead cottonwood stump, riparian, SE Idaho.

@mossgeek?

JC1642 growing on soil and soil over rock. Interesting cucullate leaves, lamina unistratose, distally incurved AND recurved, hydroids absent.

JC1505 growing on soil in openings of scrub oak chaparral (Quercus john-tuckeri). Moderate to gentle NW facing slope, full to filtered sun.

growing on rock in sheltered microsite on tor along alpine ridge. 22BC016.

Source: 03/14/12

ID by @rambryum

in mud overlaying limestone

On clay soil slope, 260m alt.

Exposed seasonal lake bed

Moss? Seen in early spring when looking for crocus.

On gneiss outcrop.

This looks easy for you @astorey_botany . on limestone. in the foothills of rockies

On limestone boulders along creek

On sand dunes, 10m alt.