lesser clubmoss

plural lesser clubmosses · alternative lesser club-moss · alternative Lesser Clubmoss

1. Selaginella selaginoides, a vascular plant of the family Selaginellaceae that resembles moss and is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere.

   I failed to find Alpine Saxifrage, which grows on just a few boulders here, but I did come across plants of Lesser Clubmoss, growing here almost at the south of its British range.

   2016, Michael Scott, Mountain Flowers, →ISBN, page 107

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   Interesting herbs which thrive in the shrubby understorey include lesser twayblade Listera cordata, an inconspicuous, green-flowered orchid, typical of coniferous woodlands and bogs, and several more primitive vascular plants, including alpine clubmoss Lycopodium alpinum and lesser clubmoss Selaginella selaginoides.

   1990, Pete Raine, Mediterranean Wildlife: The Rough Guide, →ISBN, page 252

   Similarly, the grassland at Sheskinmore contains thirteen of the Bunduff site constant species, with only bog pimpernel and lesser clubmoss being absent, perhaps excluded by the longer sward […]

   2005, Margaret Pilkington, Science in the Countryside: Lifelong Learning for Ecological Citizenship, →ISBN, page 189

   Synonyms: northern spikemoss, prickly mountain-moss