interrupted clubmoss

alternative interrupted club moss · alternative Interrupted Clubmoss

1. uncountableLycopodium annotinum, a club moss of the family Lycopodiaceae common throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

   Interrupted Clubmoss is generally common, and Issler's clubmoss Diphasiastrum complanatum scattered.

   2010, Derek Ratcliffe, Lapland: A Natural History, →ISBN, page 91

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   Bowfell is not among the places he must visit, but viviparous alpine bistort grows there at over 1,800ft, and there is also interrupted clubmoss, which grows too in Rossett Ghyll and up Great Langdale on the grassy slopes among damp rocks.

   1973, Eric Hardy, The Naturalist in Lakeland, page 70

   Among the species which best characterise the undergrowth of conifers, on acid humus - and therefore in particular, but not only, in spruce woods - is the creeping and common interrupted clubmoss (Lycopodium annotinum).

   2007, Lucio Bonato, Alessandro Minelli, Mountain conifer forests: a mantle of fine green needles, page 20

   Synonyms: stiff clubmoss