Mixed moss plants in natural habitat. Mosses, or the taxonomic division Bryophyta, are small, non-vascular flowerless plants that typically form dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations. The individual plants are usually composed of simple leaves that are generally only one cell thick, attached to a stem that may be branched or unbranched. Commonly confused with hornworts, liverworts and lichens. A patch of moss showing both gametophytes (the low, leaf-like) and sporophytes (the tall, stalk-like forms). A sporophyte is the diploid multicellular stage in the life cycle of a plant or alga. Lichen peat colonizes colonies covered nature macro slider dolly surface UHD 3840X2160