Spanish Moss

We might get a few photos here in Florida for a very short visit. Usually, you see Spanish Moss hanging from tree limbs. Here is a short description from Wikipedia: Spanish Moss.

Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is an epiphytic flowering plant that often grows upon larger trees in tropical and subtropical climates, native to much of Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Central America, South America, the southern United States, French Polynesia and the West Indies and is also naturalized in Queensland (Australia). It is known as "grandpas beard" in French Polynesia. In the United States from where it is most known, it is commonly found on the southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) and bald-cypress (Taxodium distichum) in the lowlands, swamps, and savannas of the southeastern United States from southeast Virginia south to Florida and west to Texas and southern Arkansas.

The key here is that it is not a moss. It is a flowering plant. It is an epiphyte and does not harm the plant like a parasite i.e. mistletoe.