Characteristics that identify a plant as a moss
Botanically, mosses are non-vascular plants in the land plant division Bryophyta. They are small (a few centimeters tall) herbaceous (non-woody) plants that absorb water and nutrients mainly through their leaves and harvest carbon dioxide and sunlight to create food by photosynthesis.ichens may superficially look like mosses, and have a common names that includes the word moss (e.g.,  reindeer moss  or  iceland moss ), but are not related to mosses. Mosses, hornworts, and liverworts are collectively called  bryophytes .