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Genus: S

Sagina: Corsican moss
Salvia: pineapple sage
Sambucus: sweet elderberry
Sanguinaria: bloodroot
Saponaria: Mediterranean pink
Sasa: bamboo
Sasaella: bamboo
Sassafras: sassafras
Saururus: lizard's tail
Saxifraga: strawberry begonia
Schizachyrium: bunchgrass; little bluestem
Scirpus: bulrush
Sedum: (sedum); golden moss; wall pepper; wild stonecrop; worm grass; yellow stonecrop
Semiarundinaria: bamboo
Sempervivum: cobweb houseleek; common houseleek; hens-and-chickens
Senecio: golden groundsel
Shibataea: bamboo
Silene: fire pink
Silphium: cup plant
Sisyrinchium: pointed blue-eyed grass
Sorghastrum: Indian grass
Spartina: variegated prairie cordgrass
Sphagnum: sphagnum moss
Spigelia: Indian pink
Spiraea: meadowsweet
Sporobolus: prairie dropseed
Stachys: Betony; hedge nettle; woundwort
Stokesia: Stokes' aster
Stylophorum: celandine poppy; wood poppy
Styrax: Japanese snowbell tree
Symphytum: comfrey

Catalog as of April 01, 2008

Sphagnum

(Spagnidae - sphagnum subclass family)

Sphagnum or peat or bog moss. Mosses of acidic, wet soils or boggy locations. About 50 species occur in North America, many others worldwide. Important to horticulture as the source of commercial sphagnum and sphagnum peat moss, the sponge-like plants also make interesting ornmentals where conditions are suitable.

species

evgrn peren • ht usually 4-8" • zones 3?-8?

sphagnum moss

moss, native, moist - wet, sun - part shade
eastern North America?

This is a native species (which we have not yet identified) which flourishes here on the sunny shore of a pond. Given a steady moisture supply and acidic conditions, sphagnum mosses are said to be quite adaptable. In full sun, sphagnum mosses often develop a range of interesting colors; they are less inclined to do this in shade. It is said that sphagnum mosses can even make good rock garden plants. In their normal condition, sphagnum mosses will be saturated with water like a sponge filled to capacity. They have a remarkable ability to remain saturated, or at least wetter than seems reasonable, even when their environment dries out; they can stand considerable summer dryness, especially if they have some shade.

cat # 0A0S
$8.95 each / 3+, $8.50 ea