MilesBerkey

Thanks Hema Shah! This is actually neither; it is a moss.

Nice pictures! My best guess is S. papillosum or S. palustre. My west coast sphagnum taxonomy ecology may not be accurate for East Coast Sphagnum ID, but these two species are my best guess.

THis is a liverwort. Check out Genus' Barbilophozia, Tritomaria, and Lophozia. All have distinct, regular to irregular leaf lobes.

This is Funaria hygrometrica. It typically can be found in soils with high nitrogen content.

Thanks Jellis for thinking about it. It is indeed S. girgensohnii. I just got some confirmation. It is definately an anomaly though for the species. The typical S. girgensohnii has fewer pendant spreading branches and more pendant ones. Also, the spreading branches in this specimen are very short and stiff, where the typical S. girgensohnii are very long and weak.

You found Porella navicularis

this is in the plagiomnium genus. It is very likely to be Plagiomnium insigne. The margin of the leaf should have a row or several rows of long skinny cells called a limbidium. the margin should be serrate.

this looks like Pleurozium shreberi

Thanks Doreen, yea this is sphagna, but certain characteristics make me think that it is Sphagnum contortum. S. warnstorfii is much more red (wine red), has the green cells exposed entirely on the concave surface of the branch leaves, the pores within hyaline cells are very small and not necessarily fixed to the cell walls.

Drosera species, they are everywhere out there