Where do you find scientific names and common names for plants like mosses, liverworts?

Mosses are of the phylum Bryophyta..

Where do you find scientific names and common names for plants like mosses, liverworts?
I would either do a Google search on the internet or go to the library and get a good reference book on mosses or liverworts. Sometimes too, basic botany books tell you quite a bit about these types of organisms.





Here is a good search site to find the common, family, or scientific names of plants:





http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/D_common.htm...





(To find it, I used "mosses" and "common names" as my key words on a Google search.)
Reply:Look them up on wikipedia.


Here's the entry for liverwort:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverwort
Reply:Mosses (Bryophyta)


The greatest species diversity in bryophytes is found in the mosses, with estimates of the number of species ranging from 10,000 to 15,000. Higher-level classification of the mosses remains unresolved with considerable difference of opinion on the names of the major groups. However, generally four major groups or classes are recognised. These include: Sphagnopsida (peat or Sphagnum mosses), Andreaeopsida (rock or lantern mosses), Polytrichopsida (nematodontous mosses), and the Bryopsida (arthrodontous mosses). The Sphagnum mosses are one of the most ecologically and economically important groups of bryophytes. The class Bryopsida accounts for the largest and most diverse groups within the mosses with over 100 families.





Liverworts (Marchantiophyta)


The estimated number of liverwort species range from 6000 to 8000. Traditionally, liverworts have been subdivided into two major groups or classes based, partially, on growth form. The class Marchantiopsida, includes the well-known genera Marchantia, Monoclea, Lunularia, and Riccia, and has a complex thalloid organisation. The class Jungermanniopsida represents an estimated 85% of liverwort species and shows an enormous amount of morphological, anatomical and ecological diversity; plants with leafy shoot systems are the most common growth form in this class, e.g., Frullania, Jubulopsis, Cololejeunea, and Radula.





Hornworts (Anthocerotophyta)


Hornworts get their name from their long, horn-shaped sporophytes and are the smallest group of bryophytes with only approximately 100 species. Hornworts resemble some liverworts in having simple, unspecialized thalloid gametophytes, but they differ in many other characters. Hornworts differ from all other land plants in having only one large, algal-like chloroplast in each thallus cell





Phylogeny


Scientific Name Common Name


Plantae Land Plants


Embryophytes Green plants
Reply:If you have one or the other (ie the common or the botanical/scientific name), you can just enter it as a search term on google.com or ask.com.





If not, do a search for "types of ________" and "botanical names"