We're experiencing a brief relief from the cold here in Wisconsin (it's 43°F today!) so I took the opportunity to wander around in the woods. I'm super surprised how much healthy, green moss persists through winter. Do mosses stay active even under the snow, or am I witnessing a warmer weather green up? 🤔
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@quixote Thinking about them hanging out in their own little igloos doing their thing all winter is making me very very happy. 😁
@mycologistmaybe Quite a lot of light filters through snow. Not meters and meters of it, of course. But a meter or so? Enough for mosses and lichens, which are super tough little critters. They're pretty much what colonized the rock before there were any other land plants, so they're small but mighty!