English: Yellow feather-moss.
German: Echtes Goldmoos.
Habitat: short, unimproved, calcareous grassland; especially chalk and limestone; other open places, quarries, on sand dunes.
BotanyMoss; fairly robust; pale or yellowish-green; grow in loose, ascending tufts or as scattered stems; a less common form grows prostrate and closely attached to rocks and boulders, especially on limestone.
Stem: irregularly branched shoots; stout, 1–2 mm wide; fairly long, more than 1 cm; straight or nearly so.
Leaves: 2–3 mm long, triangularly spearhead-shaped, widest at the base, and taper evenly to a finely pointed tip; distinctive in having very strong pleats lengthways along the leaf; margins are only weakly and finely toothed.
Capsules: infrequently; 1.5 to 2 mm long and slightly curved.