Take note of where the moss grows before moving it to your preferred area if you’re gathering it from your land. It’s likely growing at the ideal location. To distribute it, make a moss slurry, and recreate those circumstances, and you’re in mossy business with garden moss for sale!

There are over 20,000 different moss species, and you could discover at least a hundred of them in your county. Let’s look at some of the species you might encounter. Here are ten different species of moss to look at for gardening ideas.

1. Cushion Moss in White (Leucobryum glaucum)

As the name implies, this moss grows in dense, 2- to 4-inch tall cushion-like clusters. The color is usually white, but it may turn blue-green if it becomes wet from the rain. It thrives in wet woodlands, on dirt, or rocks.

2. Purple Moss/Burned Ground Moss (Ceratodon purpureus)

This moss defies mossy convention by flourishing in dry environments, and it can also withstand road margins, fields, and even rooftops. Its rich, velvet-like surface becomes brown when dry but gives it a nice soak, and the luscious green color returns.

3. Cord Moss (Funaria hygrometrica)

Cord Moss can be found in a short amount of time, and it may grow in a variety of places, including burned areas, disturbed soil, and even terracotta pots in your greenhouse. It develops a shallow but dense mat sporadically strewn with its twisting, Alice in Wonderland-like spore capsules.

4. Goldilocks Moss/Haircap Moss (Polytrichum commune)

Mosses do not produce flowers, but these dazzling golden spore capsules atop towering stalks might convince you otherwise. This wiry aspect to a moss garden can grow between 6 and 12 inches tall, adding some much-appreciated vertical elements to a moss garden. It prefers to grow in the forests or on the outskirts of bogs.

5. Fern Moss is a delicate moss (Thuidium delicatulum)

Delicate Fern Moss is a prostrate moss that spreads out in a gorgeous, feathery mat across the ground. It thrives in moist or wet soil, decomposing leaves, and rotting wood in the forest.

6. Moss on the rocks (Grimmia alpicola)

Rock moss, another hardy environmental champion, can withstand the sun’s rays and carry on ticking. It’s a cushion of green while wet and a dark, nearly-black mound when dry, and it’s usually found in sunny, exposed regions and on dry limestone rocks.

7. Silver Moss (Bryum argenteum)

Silver Moss creates a gleaming, metallic green carpet that thrives on roadsides, sidewalks, roofs, fields, and other places where little else likes to grow. In a world of fuzzy green, the spore cases are beautiful, downward-looking capsules on hair-like stems that resemble tiny lanterns.

8. Tree Moss (Climacium dendroides)

Tree moss is on the upper end of the spectrum, growing between 2 and 4 inches tall in erect, branched forms. It resembles a lilliputian conifer tree and thrives in swamps, moist humus, and rotting wood, as its name suggests.

9. Feather Moss (Hypnum imponent)

Feather Moss grows prostrately, draping its soft, downward-curling leaves generously across decaying logs. It can be found in wetlands, coniferous woodlands, and tree bases.

10. Star Moss/Woodsy Mnium (Plagiomnium cuspidatum)

This charming little moss has 1-inch long stems surrounded by leaves and appears rather starry when viewed from above. It grows in shady regions such as woodlands, fields, roadside ditches, and your yard.