It’s not surprising that North Carolina-based moss expert Annie Martin titled her book The Magical World of Moss Gardening.

Lycopodium is a fine powder, the seed, or more correctly the spores, of a club moss. These are members of a curious family of cryptogamous plants that,' from the demand in commerce for the spores ...

Mosses were among the first land plants to evolve out of the ocean roughly 450 million years ago. They grow everywhere, from the world’s harshest landscapes to cracks in the sidewalk.