Status in Britain: Common

This moss has a rather feathery appearance, and ranges from green to golden- yellow to pale brown in colour. Its leaves are long and tapering to a fine point, slightly curved, with a nerve running for most of their length, and pronounced auricles in their basal corners. In common with other species of Drepancocladus the leaves tend to be orientated in the same direction away from the stem (a condition known as secund). This is a plant of open poor fens and flushes as well as the edges of mildly acid lakes and ponds.