Editing Spanish moss (section)

== Description ==
[[File:Spanishmoss1.jpg|thumb|right|Close-up of Spanish moss]]
Spanish moss consists of one or more slender stems, bearing alternate thin, curved or curly, and heavily scaled [[leaf|leaves]] {{convert|0.8|–|2.4|in|cm|0|abbr=in|order=flip}} long and {{convert|0.04|in|mm|sigfig=1|abbr=in|order=flip}} broad, that grow vegetatively in a chain-like fashion (pendant), forming hanging structures of up to {{convert|20|ft|m|0|abbr=in|order=flip}}.<ref name="floridata.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.floridata.com/ref/T/till_usn.cfm |title=Tillandsia usneoides |website=Floridata Plant Encyclopedia}}</ref> The gray-green garlands have occasionally been found hanging down as much as 26 feet (eight meters).<ref>{{ cite book | last= Rohwer Ph.D. | first= Prof. Jens G. | date= 2002 | title= Tropical Plants of the World | location= New York | publisher= Sterling Pub. Co. Inc. | page= 258 | isbn= 0-8069-8387-6}}</ref>

The plant has no [[root]]s.<ref name="floridata.com"/><ref name="UF-IFAS">{{cite web | title=Sustainability-Spanish Moss | website=[[Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences]] (IFAS), UF | date=2020-05-06 | url=http://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/natural-resources/sustainability-spanish-moss/ | access-date=2021-10-28}}</ref> Its flowers are yellow-green and small, with spreading petals. The [[Scape (botany)|scape]] is partly hidden within the leaf sheath.<ref name="eFloras"/> Spanish moss propagates both by seed and [[Vegetative reproduction|vegetatively]] by fragments that are carried on the wind and stick to tree limbs or that are carried to other locations by birds as nesting material.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}