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Sand-hill Screw-moss

Syntrichia ruraliformis

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 287, February 212, March 332, April 523, May 754, June 822, July 879, August 756, September 555, October 414, November 226, December 177.
United States5,940
Alaska5,938
United Kingdom140
England122
Netherlands81
France67
Zuid-Holland56
Germany53
Bretagne27
Schleswig-Holstein19

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Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumMosses · Bryophyta
ClassJoint-toothed Mosses · Bryopsida
OrderPottiales
FamilyPottiaceae
GenusSyntrichia

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