Moss Families (Bryophyta)

Moss Families (Bryophyta) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers families of mosses, small non-vascular land plants that have no true roots and reproduce by spores, such as Polytrichaceae, a common family of mosses that tend to be larger than other mosses, with leaves that have specialised sheaths at the base and a midrib bearing photosynthetic lamellae, and that occur in particularly moist habitats. An entry belongs here when its own cited article describes a family of mosses. It excludes the families of flowering plants and conifers, which have groups of their own, and it excludes the liverworts. The group lets a reader compare the simplest land plants with the vascular families of this subcategory.