| Lycopodium clavatum L. | |||
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| Family | Lycopodiaceae — APG family: Lycopodiaceae | ||
| Common name | common club moss | ||
| Description | Stem long, densely covered with more or less appressed leaves, creeping on ground, with ascending branches repeatedly forking with age, branches terminated by a usually long peduncle covered with short bracts and bearing 2-3 spikes; at least the lower spore-bearing leaves tipped with a soft, hairlike bristle, best observed on young leaves at tops of branches. | ||
| Ecology | Woods and rocky places in lowlands, ascending to lower alpine region; mostly on acid soil. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. integérrimum Spring (common in British Columbia) differs in having leaves lacking bristles. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.