Species: Pohlia drummondii

Disjunct Circumboreal. In North America, from Alaska southward in the Cascade and Rocky Mountains to California, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, where it is confined to the high mountains. In eastern North America, known from New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachussets (Shaw 1982), as well as Labrador, Newfoundland (Belland 1987). Also known from New York, Quebec, and from Greenland and northern Europe (Crum and Anderson 1981, Flowers 1973, and Howard 1975). In Fennoscandia, the species is present from most provinces of Sweden, Norway and Finland, and 2 provinces of Denmark (Nyholm 1954-69). Elsewhere in Europe, it occurs in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, and Poland (Shaw 1982). Known also from southern South America (Hill et al 1994), and north, east, and central Asia, and China (Nyhom 1954-69; Smith (1980).