What type of plant is moss?

Answer 1

Mosses are small, soft plants that are typically 1–10 cm tall, or occasionally more.

They commonly grow close together in clumps or mats in damp or shady locations.

They do not have flowers or seeds, and their simple leaves cover the thin wiry stems.

At certain times mosses produces spore capsules which may appear as beak-like capsules borne aloft on thin stalks.

Botanically, mosses are bryophytes, or non-vascular plants.

They can be distinguished from the apparently similar liverworts (Marchantiophyta or Hepaticae) by their multi-cellular rhizoids.

Other differences are not universal for all mosses and all liverworts,

but the presence of clearly differentiated "stem" and "leaves",

the lack of deeply lobed or segmented leaves, and the absence of leaves arranged in three ranks, all point to the plant being a moss.

click the links for nteresting photos----

1) A moss plant-
http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/bryophytes/mosses/familys/polytrichaceae/images/polyt01b.jpg

2)moss with capsule
http://www.science.siu.edu/plant-biology/Faculty/vitt/Images/moss%20capsule.jpg

3) only capsule
http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~hattorib/moss027.jpg

Answer 2

Mosses are small, soft plants that are typically 1-10 cm tall, occasionally more. They commonly grow close together in clumps or mats in damp or shady locations. They do not have flowers or seeds, and their simple leaves cover the thin wiry stems. At certain times mosses produces spore capsules which may appear as beak-like capsules borne aloft on thin stalks.

Answer 3

As Bryophyte are simple plants, most have no internal means for transporting water or nutrients. They are often said to have leaves but these are not equivalent to the leaves of vascular plants. Bryophyte are mostly one cell thick, sometimes the midrib and stalk are several cells thick but do not contain any water conducting tissue. They don't have any roots but do have filamentous rhizoids, which are sometimes multicellular which do little more then anchor them down.

Bryophytes are a group of small, simple, green land dwelling plants of which, a few are aquatic comprising of Hornworts (Anthocerotopsida), Liverworts (Hepaticopsida), and Mosses (Bryopsida).

Answer 4

Moss is nonvascular, so it is small with no true roots, stems, or leaves. Mosses are in Kingdom Plantae, Division Bryophyta.

Answer 5

They are in kindom Plantae, Division Bryophyta: Hepatophyta (liverworths), Anthocerotophyta (hornworths) and Bryophyta (moss)

Answer 6

Moss is the category.

Answer 7

Seedless nonvascular.

They reproduce with spores and have no vascular tissue (phloem or xylem) to carry water or nutrients