Low herbs and stunted shrubs are often scattered across the moss lawn, but usually form <25% cover overall. Characteristic vascular plant species include leatherleaf, bog rosemary (very dwarfed), ...
The substrate is saturated, acidic (pH ~4.5) peat moss. As with other bog vegetation, it occurs in nutrient poor ... is restricted to coastal heaths in east-coastal Maine. It uses black crowberry as a ...
by developing water content dynamics and nonvascular photosynthetic processes for moss. The model was parameterized and independently evaluated against observations from an ombrotrophic forested bog ...