Sphagnum of North Carolina
Authors: Shaw lab team (DUKE), for comments and errors contact B. Aguero

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Families: 1
Genera: 1
Species: 39
Total Taxa: 39

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Subg. Sphagnum; haploid. Common, coastal plain, piedmont and mountains. Includes specimens identified as Sphagnum imbricatum Hornsch. ex Russow. Forms with squarrose leaves frequently grow in shaded microhabitats, identified as Sphagnum squarrosum. Such forms need to be examined under microscope to confirm species. They most frequently represent S. affine.
Subg. Cuspidata; haploid. Rare, 3 sites in mountains.
Subg. Acutifolia; haploid. Occasional, mountains. Includes specimens identified as Sphagnum subtile (Russow) Warnst.; specimens from coastal plain need revision, they represent Sphagnum rubellum (incl. S. bartlettianum) or S. tenerum.
Subg. Subsecunda; diploid. Occasional, coastal plain.
Subg. Sphagnum; diploid. 1 specimen from coastal plain. This is likely identification error, specimen in MICH needs to be verified.
Subg. Rigida; haploid. Common, coastal plain, piedmont and mountains.
Subg. Subsecunda; diploid. Rare, 1 site in mountains.
Subg. Subsecunda; haploid. Occasional, coastal plain. Includes specimens identified as Sphagnum macrophyllum var. floridanum.
Subg. Cuspidata; haploid. Common, coastal plain, piedmont, rare in mountains. Includes specimens identified as Sphagnum viride Flatberg.
Subg. Subsecunda; haploid. Occasional, coastal plain. Occurs up to the fall line between piedmont and coastal plain.
Subg. Cuspidata; haploid. Rare, mountains. 2 reports from coastal plain are unlikely; all specimens need revision, most of them likely represent Sphagnum recurvum.
Subg. Acutifolia; haploid. Rare, 1 site in mountains.
Subg. Cuspidata; haploid. Rare, coastal plain.
Subg. Cuspidata; haploid. Rare, 2 sites in mountains.
Subg. Acutifolia; haploid. Rare, 1 site in mountains.
Subg. Acutifolia; haploid. Occasional, mountains.
Subg. Subsecunda; haploid. Occasional/unknown, coastal plain. Most specimens identified as S. lescurii represent diploid taxon Sphagnum missouricum.
Subg. Subsecunda; haploid. Occasional, coastal plain. Once collected in piedmont, likely extinct there.
Subg. Sphagnum; haploid. Occasional, coastal plain, piedmont and mountains. Aggregate. New research confirmed two segregates of this species in the Southeastern US, Sphagnum magneae, and Sphagnum diabolicum; publication in prep. Sphagnum magellanicum s.str. occurs only in southern South America.
Subg. Subsecunda; haploid. Rare/unknown, coastal plain.
Subg. Cuspidata; diploid. Rare/unknown, reported from coastal plain and mountains.
Subg. Subsecunda; diploid. Common, coastal plain, piedmont and mountains. S. missouricum is a diploid; includes plants identified as Sphagnum auriculatum Schimp., Sphagnum denticulatum Brid., Sphagnum lescurii Sull., Sphagnum inundatum Russow, Sphagnum subsecundum Nees
Subg. Acutifolia; haploid. Occasional to common, coastal plain and mountains, rare in piedmont.
Subg. Sphagnum; diploid. Common, coastal plain, piedmont and mountains. Includes specimens identified as Sphagnum henryense Warnst.
Subg. Sphagnum; diploid. Occasional, coastal plain, 1 site in mountains.
Subg. Sphagnum; haploid. Common, coastal plain, rare in piedmont and mountains.
Subg. Sphagnum; haploid. Occasional, coastal plain.
Subg. Subsecunda; haploid. Rare, 3 sites in mountains.
Subg. Acutifolia; haploid. Rare/occasional, mountains.
Subg. Cuspidata; haploid. Common, coastal plain, piedmont and mountains.
Subg. Acutifolia; haploid. Occasional to common, coastal plain, piedmont and mountains. Includes Sphagnum bartlettianum Warnst.; it will be synonymized with Sphagnum rubellum in upcoming publication.
Subg. Acutifolia; diploid. Rare, mountains.
Subg. Squarrosa; haploid. Rare in NC, in the highest elevations in spruce-fir forest seeps. See note under S. affine.
Subg. Rigida; haploid. Occasional, coastal plain, rare in piedmont and mountains.
Subg. Cuspidata; haploid. Rare, 1 site in mountains.
Subg. Acutifolia; haploid. Occasional, coastal plain. Specimens from the mountains need revision.
Subg. Cuspidata; diploid. Occasional, coastal plain and piedmont. Includes specimens of Sphagnum atlanticum R.E. Andrus.
Subg. Cuspidata; haploid. Occasional, coastal plain. Likely includes many specimens identified as Sphagnum cuspidatum var. serrulatum.
Subg. Acutifolia; haploid. Rare, 2 sites in mountains.