Blasia pusilla
From Natural History of Southeast Alaska
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
|Habitat=Riparian, Lacustrine
|Microhabitat=Sandbar
Local Notes
References
Weblinks
- PacNW Herbaria Records for Blasia pusilla
- Search Arctos Database for Blasia pusilla (Southeast only)
- Search Arctos Database for Blasia pusilla (entire database)
- Encyclopedia of Life search for Blasia pusilla
- iNaturalist Observations for Blasia pusilla in Southeast Alaska
Other References
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.
Related Files
Worley's map of Blasia pusilla collections