- Spanish moss, old man's beard, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides - dense festoons of greenish-gray hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
--1 is a kind of air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plant
--1 is a member of Tillandsia, genus Tillandsia