ground and creeping clubmosses
Lycopodium
Lycopodium (from Ancient Greek lykos, 'wolf' and podion, diminutive of pous, 'foot') is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines or creeping cedars, in the family Lycopodiaceae. Two very different circumscriptions of the genus are in use. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Lycopodium is one of nine genera in the subfamily Lycopodioideae, and has from nine to 15 species. In other classifications, the genus is equivalent to the whole of the subfamily, since it includes all of the other genera. More than 40 species are accepted.
15 branches of this genus, most-observed first
stag's-horn clubmoss
speciesLycopodium clavatum
Climbing clubmoss
speciesLycopodium volubile
Bushy Clubmoss
speciesLycopodium deuterodensum
arctic stag's-horn clubmoss
speciesLycopodium lagopus
Lycopodium japonicum
speciesLycopodium japonicum
Hairtip Clubmoss
speciesLycopodium venustulum
Lycopodium vestitum
speciesLycopodium vestitum
Running-pine Clubmoss
speciesLycopodium zanclophyllum
Lycopodium yueshanense
speciesLycopodium yueshanense
Lycopodium nikoense
speciesLycopodium nikoense
Lycopodium diaphanum
speciesLycopodium diaphanum
Lycopodium pullei
speciesLycopodium pullei
Lycopodium spectabile
speciesLycopodium spectabile
Lycopodium hygrophilum
speciesLycopodium hygrophilum
Lycopodium papuanum
speciesLycopodium papuanum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.490
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.453
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.628
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.627
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.491
History of the Plants of New Spain, Volume 3
Francisco Hernández (1517-1587) · 1946 · p.350
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.43
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