AKA worm or spoon moss, this versatile, shiny species looks a bit like shag carpeting and its translucent leaves add to its green color intensity. In sunnier places it will take on golden overtones.

Now is the time of the year when people are working hard to have a beautiful lawn. They are putting down lime and fertilizer as well as some grass seed to fill in the places where grass is sparce.

Barbara Ewing shows hair cap moss, one of 15 different kinds, covering their yard in Yorktown, Va. Barbara and Chuck Ewing in their back yard. Barbara gave up trying to grow grass. She now has moss in ...