old man's beard
Hanging tree growth
Old man's beard is a common name for several plants with long, trailing, hair-like growths.
It most often refers to Spanish moss, the gray epiphyte that drapes from trees in the American South, or to clematis vines with feathery seed heads.
The name also applies to certain lichens that hang in wispy strands from branches: The oaks were festooned with old man's beard.
Climbing ornamental flowering vine
- seedheadMature flower bearing seeds
- fluffySoft and light-textured
- tuftedHaving raised clusters
- climberOne who scales
vine · tendril · hedgerow · woodland · perennial · deciduous · ornamental · invasive
Tree-dense ecosystem
- woodlandForested land area
- treesWoody plants with trunks
- branchesLimbs of trees
- canopyOverhead protective covering
temperate · humid · moss-covered · ancient · oak · conifer · orchard · hedgerow
Interspecies biological interdependence
- thallusUndifferentiated vegetative body
- epiphyteNon-parasitic botanical hitchhiker
- bioindicatorSpecies showing ecosystem health
- pendantSuspended jewelry ornament
clematis
Climbing ornamental flowering vine
climber · vine · tendril · hedgerow · woodland · perennial · deciduous · ornamental · invasive · flowering
forest
Tree-dense ecosystem
canopy · temperate · humid · moss-covered · ancient · oak · conifer · orchard · hedgerow · roadside
symbiosis
Interspecies biological interdependence
- thallusUndifferentiated vegetative body
- epiphyteNon-parasitic botanical hitchhiker
- bioindicatorSpecies showing ecosystem health
pendant · draping · tree-dwelling · cortex
wispy
Thin and insubstantial
trailing · tangled · stringy · flowing · shaggy · gossamer · cobwebby · matted · ethereal · delicate
- Plant Nicknamesbaby's breath, bachelor's button, black-eyed Susan, bleeding heart, buttercup
- mosses & lichenspeat moss, sphagnum, tree moss, oakmoss
- beard lichens
- Lichensthallus, lungwort, gelatinous, pendant, lobate
- buttercupsbuttercup, ranunculus, crowfoot
- epiphytesair plants, air plant, Spanish moss, staghorn fern, bird's nest fern
old man's beardbarrel cactus
Stout cylindrical desert succulent
cushion plant · boxwood · topiary · hens and chicks · bonsai
older, oldest, olden, elder, elderly, manliness, manhood, mankind, manful