Found a liverwort in the wild, by one of my flower patches!
You seem super excited — what’s cool about it?
Liverworts are one of the oldest living ancestors of modern plants, their life cycles are kinda weird, they look more like something that grows in a petri dish than a plant, and this one looks like snake skin
I just finished a two week, three credit-hour crash course primarily on mosses, but it included liverworts and hornworts a bit, too. So to find one in the wild was really cool because it’s the first time in my life I’ve seen one.
They’re just weird and I like em
They’re also one of the few plants that dont have a vascular system (no xylem/phloem) which is why they stay so low to the ground and need constant moisture!
Not constant, actually, my professor emphasized that after being completely dessicated, when rehydrated about 80% of the plant will revive perfectly functional