AKA worm or spoon moss, this versatile, shiny species looks a bit like shag carpeting and its translucent leaves add to its green color intensity. In sunnier places it will take on golden overtones.

An ancient and quiet world lies at your feet whenever you walk through a forest or wetland in New Jersey. Mosses, part of the broader group known as bryophytes (which include liverworts and hornworts) ...