A low growing plant which can affect the quality of a turf area quite significantly Different species can occur in a wide range range of situations Moss typically occurs under the following situations
- (1) A group of BRYOPHYTES, the members of which are differentiated into stem and leaves (Compare with LIVERWORTS) (2) An abbreviated form of MOSSLAND
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Moss is a very small soft green plant which grows on damp soil, or on wood or stone. ground covered over with moss. a very small green plant that grows in a thick soft furry mass on wet soil, trees, or rocks. Any of at least 12,000 species of small, spore-bearing land plants in the bryophyte division, found worldwide except in salt water. Mosses are simple and ancient plants that have survived nearly unchanged since the Permian Period (290-248 million years ago). Commonly found in moist, shady locations (e.g., forest floors), mosses may range in size from microscopic to more than 40 in. (1 m) long. They prevent erosion and release nutrients from the substrates on which they grow. The life cycle shows clear alternation of generations between the sexual gametophyte, with stemlike and leaflike structures that produce eggs and swimming sperm, and the sporophyte, a raised stalk that ends in a spore case (sporangium). Mosses also reproduce asexually by branching. The economically important genus Sphagnum forms peat. Many so-called mosses are not bryophytes, including Irish moss (a red form of algae); beard moss, Iceland moss, oak moss, and reindeer moss (all lichens); Spanish moss (a name used variously for a lichen or an air plant of the pineapple family); and club moss (an evergreen herb of the family Lycopodiaceae). club moss Hart Moss Moss Stirling peat moss sphagnum moss Spanish moss
Any of various classes of very small, green bryophytes having stems with leaflike structures and growing in velvety clusters on rocks, trees, moist ground, etc