Club Moss
Related Category: Plants
name generally used for the living species of the class Lycopodiopsida, a primitive subdivision of vascular plants.
Club Moss Identification for Amateurs
Our North Country clubmosses are divided into four genera, based upon their leaves and cones.
CLUB MOSSES
Club mosses (Lycopsids) are primitive, vascular plants (pteridophytes) that evolved over 375 million years ago (during the Devonian).
The club mosses produce stalked sporangia on the top of their leaves and along their stems. Whisk ferns produce sporangia without stalks along their stems. Horsetails produce sporangia out of the top of their stems.
Golden Club Moss; aka,
Krauss's Aurea Spikemoss
Two slowly converging clumps of Golden Club Moss are now well-established under the near hellebores & a fern. It is shown in this March 2003 portrait along with blooms from a nearby ...
Ask your greengrocer for a wooden crate from a delivery of citrus fruit and use it for a display of miniatures: cacti, Club Moss or Mind-Your-OwnBusiness. Intersperse with light coloured pebbles.
Lycopodium complanatum, the American Club Moss, is a small mossy plant with aromatic, resinous smell and slightly turpentiny taste, the stalks hairy and the leaves close set, characteristics which have gained it the popular name of Ground Pine, ...
Plant Type: This is a club moss which can reach 30cm in height (12inches). Horizontal stems underground.
Leaves: The leaves are alternate. Leaves can reach 0.12cm in length (0.0472inches). Each leaf is scale-like in ranks or seven or eight.
Rock Tassel Fern, Club Moss
About 450 species of evergreen perennials, chiefly of tropical and subtropical regions but with a few species extending into temperate areas. The Club Mosses are actually more closely related to ferns than to mosses.
Lepidodendron (also known as the "Scale tree") is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular, arborescent (tree-like) plant related to the Lycopsids (club mosses). It was part of the coal forest flora.
dendroideum is a very distinct Club Moss, worth a place in the rock garden, its little stems, 6 to 9 inches high, much branched, and clothed with small, bright, shining green leaves.
ferns, horse-tails, club mosses, &c., and Phanerogams or Flowering Plants) the main plant-body, that which we speak of in ordinary language as the plant, is called the sporophyte because it bears the asexual reproductive cells or spores.
kraussiana (Spreading Club Moss/Trailing Spike Moss) is a trailing plant that grows 1/2-inch high and has a limitless spread. Its tiny, bright green leaves overlap along jointed stems. This plant has a moss-like appearance. S.
Some of the shrubs in this zone are rhododendrons, azaleas, mountain laurel, and huckleberries. The Herb zone is the fourth zone. It contains short plants such as herbal plants. The final zone is the Ground zone. It contains lichen, club mosses, ...
Included in this number are horsetails, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants. Commonly these are referred to as "Higher Plants." These 2800 plants do not include algae, fungi, club mosses, liverworts, etc., Commonly referred to as "lower Plants." ...
 See also: Green, Moss, Ferns, May, Evergreen
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