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Uploaded: 22 Jan 2011
Last Updated: 22 Jan 2011

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Syntrichia princeps: This is the moss with the orange-reddish base, leaves with a prominent white hairpoint (an extension of the leaf midrib called a costa) The other one that looks more like a piece of a shag carpet is Homalothecium nuttallii. (12 hours after original was shot) Moss identification by James Shevock at California Academy of Sciences