Category: Leaves collect carbon dioxide & sunlight for photosynthesis

  • Delicate Fern Moss

    Not a fern, but a moss. Delicate Fern Moss (Thuidium delicatulum), found up here in the woods, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Mosses are non-vascular plants, plants that absorb water and nutrients through their leaves. Those leaves harvest carbon dioxide and sunlight to create food using photosynthesis. This moss, Delicate Fern Moss, can be found…