Blasia pusilla

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Blasia pusilla: for more photos, see Sitka Nature Photo Gallery for Blasia pusilla
Blasia pusilla: Apparently fairly common rosette forming thallose liverwort along the upper edge of the mud flats Blue Lake, and on sand bars adjacent to the main inflow stream to Blue Lake. Stellate gemmae near the tips of the lobes are fairly distinctive





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Worley's Map of Collection Records for Blasia pusilla

Ian Worley

Southeastern Alaska Distribution: Throughout, especially at lower elevations wherever there has been construction by man.
Habitat: Usually on moist sands and clay, in roadside ditches, marshes, gullies in glacial till, alluvial deposits, and similar, disturbed habitats.
Comments: Commonly with gemmae, never with sporophytes. Presumably this species would have had no difficulty in following the fluctuations of the ice margin during the Pleistocene as there would always be available suitable habitats in the disturbed terrain.

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