old man's beard

Meanings

• dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
• vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn
• common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers

Synonyms

• Spanish moss
• old man's beard
• black moss
• long moss
• Tillandsia usneoides
• traveler's joy
• traveller's joy
• Clematis vitalba
• virgin's bower
• devil's darning needle
• Clematis virginiana

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