Spanish moss is one of those plants everyone knows at least one fun fact about. For me, growing up visiting my aunt and uncle on St. Simons Island, Georgia, I was always warned not to touch it ...

Researchers collected samples of Spanish moss and a close relative, ball moss, on Cumberland Island, Georgia, to see what was in residence. They counted a total of 3,297 bugs, including spiders ...

Spanish moss is a "very opportunistic" plant in that its seeds can simply blow onto tree branches, germinate and grow into long, gray strands. It's random where it finds a host.

Q. Mobile, Charleston and New Orleans are noted for their magnificent live oak trees, many of which have Spanish moss hanging from their limbs. I have several questions about this gray plant. (1 ...

Spanish moss is not Spanish, but it was almost French—and these are just a few of the secrets the moss, that’s not even really a moss, has been hiding in the swamps of Louisiana.

Spanish moss is sometimes described as resembling a hag’s gray hair, but a morning rain had made these strands dark and droopy. This moss was having a bad hair day. Field, who lives on the Shore ...