stag's-horn clubmoss

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stag's-horn clubmoss

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  • stag's horn clubmoss
  • Stag's-horn Clubmoss

Noun

stag's-horn clubmoss (uncountable)

  1. Lycopodium clavatum, a club moss in the family Lycopodiaceae.
    • 1988, Christopher Nigel Page, Ferns: Their Habitats in the British and Irish Landscape, →ISBN, page 292:
      Stag's-horn Clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum) is particularly widespread in drier heathland areas, and is one of the most likely species to be encountered.
    • 1992, R. J. Pankhurst, Morphology of Flowers and Inflorescences, translation of Morphologie der Blüten und der Blütenstände by Focko Weberling, →ISBN, page 4:
      In the Stag's-horn Clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum, Fig. 3 III, IV) these strobili are even elevated above the main system of creeping shoots on an upright, elongate and sparsely leafy "podium".
    • 2009, Mike Raine, Nature of Snowdonia, →ISBN, page 47:
      Fir clubmoss can spread by producing disc shaped vegetative propagules and stag's horn clubmoss can spread by means of creeping stems (stolons).
    • 2010, Bill Bowers and Eileen McNulty-Bowers, 50 Hikes in Central New York's Leatherstocking Country, →ISBN, page 114:
      Throughout, you'll discover a woodland carpeted with stag's-horn clubmoss (Lycopodium clavatum), trailing pine (L. digitatum) and princess pine (L. dendroideum).

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