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Big shaggy-moss is also a rare species, just like glittering wood-moss. However, it is still fairly common in the dunes. Conditions on northern dune slopes is exactly what this species needs. It also grows along paths and roads. Big shaggy-moss is not restricted to the coast. It can grow on soils varying in calcium content, from acidic to calcium-rich, explaining its presence in lime-rich South-Limburg.

Big shaggy-moss lives up to its name: it is bushy in form and has a shaggy appearance. It has a red stem which can grow between 5 and 20 cm long!

• Ned: Pluimstaartmos
• Lat: Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus
• Eng: Big shaggy-moss

Brittle swan-neck moss is an extremely rare moss species in the Netherlands. It is found almost exclusively by Bergen and on Texel, on calcium-poor northern dune slopes as long as they are not too acidic. However, in England, brittle swan-neck moss grows on more calcium-rich grasslands, shell sands and sandstone rocks. When moist, this moss is yellow-green in color. When dried up, it has a whitish appearance.

• Dut: Bossig kronkelsteeltje
• Lat: Campylopus fragilis
• Eng: Brittle swan-neck moss

Canary thread-moss grows on calcium-rich northern dune slopes. It a a very rare species in the Netherlands, growing primarily along the southern North-Holland coast and Texel. It is a species from the Mediterranean region, having only been discovered in this country in 1989. Canary thread-moss grows on calcium-rich northern dune slopes. However it is also found on dry grasslands among calcium-rich pioneer vegetation, often together with great hairy screw-moss, yellow-crisp-moss and bendy ditrichum moss.

• Dut: Getand knikmos
• Lat: Bryum provinciale, Bryum canariense
• Eng: Canary thread-moss

Golden feather-moss is a slender moss, growing in green or yellowish patches. It is a rare, vulnerable species, found primarily in two areas in the Netherlands: South-Limburg and the calcium-rich Holland dunes. It requires lots of calcium to grow. In the dunes, it is found mostly in open areas on northern slopes. However, it can also grow calcium-rich damp grasslands and marshes.

• Dut: Kalkgoudmos
• Lat: Campyuliadelphus chrysophyllus
• Eng: Golden feather-moss

In the dunes, common striated feather-moss grows on humus-rich sand in areas where there's no direct sunlight. It is a common species, not restricted to the coast. Outside of the dunes, you find it growing in nutrient-rich, humus soils in woods, on rocks and at the foot of trees. It can cover large areas of the forest floor, providing a home for many insects. Birds looking for food will upturn common striated feather-moss, leaving behind tufts of moss.

• Dut: Geplooid snavelmos
• Lat: Eurhynchium striatum
• Eng: Common striated feather-moss

Awl-leaved screw-moss is fairly common in the Dutch dunes. As long as there is some calcium in the bottom and it's not too sheltered, it will grow just about everywhere. It grows particularly well on open northern dune slopes where there is still calcium in the soil. More inland, awl-leaved screw-moss has been declining strongly. It is not known why this species is having such a difficult time.

Thanks to its extremely long capsule, it is not easy to mistake this moss for any other species. The Dutch name is literally 'long- capsuled star'.

• Dut: Langkapselsterretje
• Lat: Tortula subulata
• Eng: Awl-leaved screw-moss

You only find rose-moss nowadays for the most part in calcium-rich dunes. It is often found in the vicinity of yellow ant nests.

• Dut: Rozetmos
• Lat: Rhodobryum roseum
• Eng: Rose-moss

Rock pocket-moss, also known as maidenhair pocket-moss, grows mainly on coastal dunes and peat bogs.

• Dut: Groot veen-vedermos
• Lat: Fissidens dubius, Fissidens adianthoides
• Eng: Rock/Maidenhair pocket-moss

You find indian feather-moss on the Wadden Islands, particularly on northern dune slopes.

• Dut: Duinsnavelmos
• Lat: Rhynchostegium megapolitanum
• Eng: Indian / Megapolitian feather-moss

Of all the liverworts, Capitate notchwort is the most bonden to the coast.

• Dut: Duintrapmos
• Lat: Lophozia excisa
• Eng: Capitate notchwort

Tamarisk Scalewort is liverwort found on northern slopes in the dunes. In the Netherlands, this species is only found in the dunes on Texel and in Castricum. Elsewhere it has become very rare. While tamarisk scalewort grows on the ground in the dunes, elsewhere it is found growing as an epiphyte, on other plants.

• Dut: Flesjes roestmos
• Lat: Frullania tamarisci
• Eng: Tamarisk scalewort