Inside Mosses

Moss Growth

Mosses form the largest class of the bryophytes. A magnifying lens can reveal the beauty of some of these tiny plants that have made the transition from water to land. A Moss plant that starts life as a spore grows first into a simple filament or thallus. Then upright leafy branches develop with little rhizoids to anchor the plant and the Moss spreads over the ground, trees or rocks on which it is growing. [CH] {ML}