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Hot Springs National Park
Mosses and Liverworts

 
green moss on gray and red novaculite, dead leaf on top of moss, lichen on novaculite on lower left of photo

NPS Photo by Gail Sears

Here is a checklist of mosses.
Pres. Roosevelt is in an open touring car on Fountain St. in front of the Arlington Hotel. A crowd surrounds the car.  

Did You Know?
On June 10, 1936, President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Hot Springs National Park and toured the Fordyce Bathhouse as part of the Arkansas centennial celebration. FDR used the baths at Warm Springs, Georgia, on a regular basis to relieve his polio. He never bathed in Hot Springs.

Last Updated: August 31, 2006 at 15:13 EST