Accession Data

Tillandsia usneoides

Common Name: Spanish Moss

Family: Bromeliaceae

Country of Origin: USA

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 8-11

Accession #: 200202469

Accession Date: 2002-10-23 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3308

Quantity: 1

Source: Matt Opel

Provenance:

Middleton Place Plantation, Charleston, S. Carolina, USA. Collected by Robert W.A. Opel from plants blown off of an 800 year old live oak by strong winds. 
Typical North American form of "spanish moss." 

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Poales

Family: Bromeliaceae

SubFamily: Tillandsioideae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 26 February 2015.
  2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 26 February 2015.
  3. Image #03 by Mark Smith1989 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Wednesday, October 04, 2017.

Images

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