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Whiskered Veilwort

Metzgeria consanguinea

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) jeremybarker, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

24 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 197, February 145, March 227, April 358, May 516, June 563, July 602, August 518, September 380, October 284, November 155, December 121.
United States4,072
Alaska4,066
United Kingdom23
England22
Tennessee3
North Carolina3
Germany3
Baden-Württemberg3
France2
Wales1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
Phylumliverworts · Marchantiophyta
Classleafy and simple thalloid liverworts · Jungermanniopsida
OrderMetzgeriales
FamilyMetzgeriaceae
GenusVeilworts · Metzgeria

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Whiskered Veilwort with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.