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Lycopodium clavatum
Running Ground Pine
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Lycopodiaceae / Club-moss Rare Clubmoss (Lycopodium obscurum)
Rare Clubmoss is also known as Ground Pine and Princess-pine. ...

Lycopodium sp.
Family: Lycopodiaceae
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.

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, ...

Lycopodium complanatum var. flabelliforme
Ground Pine
Lycopodium lucidulum var. occidentale ...

Ground Pine (Lycopodium)
L. 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.

How to Care for a Lycopodium Squarrosum
Though not a true fern, lycopodium squarrosum--commonly known as rock tassel fern--is an evergreen perennial herbaceous fern ally. Small spores shed from the tips of its branches cause it to… ...

Licopodio - Lycopodium clavatum
Licópside - Lycopsis arvensis
Liebrecilla - Centaurea jacea
Liga - Viscum album
Lila - Syringa vulgaris
Lila de la India - Azadirachta indica
Lila de Persia - Azadirachta indica
Lima - Citrus medica ...

Small tuberous shoots, comparable on a large scale with the bulbils of Lycopodium Selago, are occasionally produced in the axils of some of the persistent leaf-bases; these are characteristic of sickly plants, ...

The principal genera are Lycopodium and Selaginella. Some species of Lycopodium are called ground pine or creeping cedar, especially those that resemble miniature hemlocks with flattened fan-shaped branches, ...

They are close relatives of another well know Christmas decoration, running cedar (Lycopodium sp.). The flat blue green foliage of S. uncinata ( Peacock Moss) is one of my favorites, along with the upright foliage of S. involvens.

In large scale operations the pollen may be mixed with inert Lycopodium spores, PVC, starch or talc powder and applied with aspirator-type Japanese apple-pollinators, to save time and pollen.

See also: May, Green, Moss, Club Moss, Pine