Spoon-leaved moss (Bryoandersonia illecebra) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 10

Existing Protection or Other Status

Bryoandersonia illecebra is currently ranked G5 (April 1991), meaning that the global population is demonstrably secure, and S1 in Ontario (March 2000), meaning that there are five or fewer known provincial occurrences (Ontario Natural Heritage Information Centre 2001). B. illecebra ranks among a large suite of rare Ontario plants characteristic of the Carolinian forest, which are the focus of well-publicized concern in the heavily urbanized and agriculturalized southern tip of the province.

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