Table 2.

Description of morphological features and habitat preferences of the studied species from the genus Sphagnum.

Moss Species Name	Photographs of Species	Morphological Features	Habitats
Sphagnum girgensohnii Russow.		Rather robust, green or yellowish-green plants, forming loose hummocks or mats	Wet forests and thicket communities, mid-forest peat bogs,
Sphagnum magellanicum Brid.		Robust plants, most often reddish to wine-red in colour, forming broad carpets or hummocks	Oligotrophic, most often raised and transitional bogs, marshy forests and birch forests, less often acidic low bogs
Sphagnum palustre L.		Robust plants, usually green, pale green, yellow-green, sometimes orange or brownish, forming loose carpets or tussocks	Swamp forests, low, transitional and raised bogs
Sphagnum squarrosum Crome		Large plants, with characteristically strongly bent branch leaves, from light green to yellow-green, in sunny places sometimes brownish, forming loose mats	Wet forests, thickets, stream banks, mid-forest springs and banks of water reservoirs