Common Name: CLUB-MOSS FAMILY Habit: Plant on ground (or other plants), creeping (to +- vine-like). Stem: branches few to many, forked often unequally, also branched laterally or not. Leaf: many, simple, +- alternate, spirally arranged, small, needle- or scale-like, 1-veined, few-toothed to generally entire, those subtending sporangia generally unlike others [or not], in distinct cones [or not]. Cone: terminal on erect stem, erect [or 0]. Sporangia: 1 in leaf axils; spores of 1 kind. Genera In Family: 4 genera, +- 400 species: worldwide, generally tropics. eFlora Treatment Author: Andy Murdock, Alan R. Smith & Thomas Lemieux Scientific Editor: Alan R. Smith, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: RUNNING-PINE, CLUB-MOSS Stem: sterile branched in > 1 plane; fertile erect. Etymology: (Greek: wolf foot, from branch tips) eFlora Treatment Author: Andy Murdock, Alan R. Smith & Thomas Lemieux
Lycopodium clavatum L.
NATIVE Stem: sterile wide-creeping to +- vine-like, < 0.5 m, 0.5--1.5 cm wide, including leaves; fertile +- 10--20 cm terminated by 2--5 cones. Leaf: +- 4--7 mm, 0.5--1 mm wide, with narrow bristle tip, those subtending sporangia ovate-triangular, abruptly bristle-tipped. Cone: 1--3(5) cm, +- 4--6 mm wide. Chromosomes: 2n=68. Ecology: Moist ground, swamps (on trees); Elevation: < 200 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCo; Distribution Outside California: to Alaska, Montana, New Mexico, eastern North America; Caribbean, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia. Jepson eFlora Author: Andy Murdock, Alan R. Smith & Thomas Lemieux Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Lycopodium Next taxon: Selaginellaceae
Botanical illustration including Lycopodium clavatum
Citation for this treatment: Andy Murdock, Alan R. Smith & Thomas Lemieux 2012, Lycopodium clavatum, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=32293, accessed on April 25, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 25, 2024.
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