Sphagnum in a sentence as a noun

But when you look at how much a peat bog sequesters in a year though the slow growth of sphagnum mosses, heather and the other lichens and plants found there, it's a tiny drop in the ocean compared with the amount of CO2 we are pumping out daily.

Sphagnum definitions

noun

any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat