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Your search found 15 taxa in the family Lycopodiaceae, Clubmoss family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Shining Clubmoss, Shining Firmoss
Look for it in moist forests and ravines
Common in Mtns, uncommon in Piedmont (rare in Coastal Plain, rare in SC Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Appalachian Firmoss, Appalachian Fir-clubmoss
Look for it on rock outcrops at high elevations (very rarely at middle elevations), rarely also in seepage or along banks of small streams at high elevations, and in fens (on hummocks)
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rock Clubmoss, Rock Firmoss
Look for it on rock outcrops and cliffs, esp in the spray of waterfalls, at low to medium elevations
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Bog Clubmoss, Slender Clubmoss
Look for it in savannas, seepages
Common in GA (rare in NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Bog Clubmoss
Look for it in savannas, seepages, bogs
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Foxtail Clubmoss, Foxtail Bog Clubmoss
Look for it in savannas, seepages, and other wet, sandy sites
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Featherstem Clubmoss, Prostrate Bog Clubmoss
Look for it in savannas, seepages
Common in GA Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont, uncommon in NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in wet savannas, ditches and other disturbed moist areas
Uncommon (rare in SC)
Native to South Carolina & Georgia?
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Common Name:
Staghorn Clubmoss, Running Clubmoss, Ground-pine
Look for it in openings, balds, roadbanks, open forests
Uncommon in NC-SC, rare in GA
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Flat-branched Tree-clubmoss, Common Ground-pine
Look for it in acidic forests
Common NC Mtns, uncommon GA-SC Mtns & NC-SC Pdmt, rare Coastal Plain & GA Pdmt
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Prickly Tree-clubmoss, Round-branch Clubmoss, Tree Ground-pine
Look for it in openings, grassy balds, high elevation spruce-fir and northern hardwood forests
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Hickey's Tree-clubmoss, Pennsylvania Ground-pine
Look for it on grassy balds, bog margins, forest openings
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Stiff Clubmoss, Bristly Clubmoss
Look for it in high elevation hardwood or coniferous forests
Rare
Native to Tennessee & northwards (a circumboreal species)
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Common Name:
Blue Ground-cedar, Blue Running-cedar
Look for it in dry forests, glades, balds, barrens, forest openings
Uncommon in NC-SC Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Ground-cedar, Common Running-cedar, Fan Ground-pine, Running Ground-pine
Look for it in dry to mesic, usually acid forests and openings, esp common in disturbed sites, such as successional pine forests
Common (uncommon in NC-SC Coastal Plain, rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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