Tags: Moss.
Hylocomium splendens commonly known as Glittering Wood-moss Stairstep Moss and Mountain Fern Moss is a perennial clonal moss with a widespread distribution in Northern Hemisphere boreal forests. It is commonly found in Europe Russia Alaska and Canada where it is often the most abundant moss species. It also grows in the Arctic tundra and further south at higher elevations in for example northern California western Sichuan East Africa Australia New Zealand and the West Indies.