OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Lycophytes: Selaginellales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Lycopodioides apodum   FAMILY Selaginellaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Selaginella apoda   FAMILY Selaginellaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Selaginella apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Selaginella apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)

Selaginella apoda var. apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)

Selaginella apoda var. apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 004-01-001:

Selaginella apoda   FAMILY Selaginellaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Diplostachyum apodum

 

COMMON NAME:
 Meadow Spikemoss

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image of Lycopodioides apodum, Meadow Spikemoss

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_seap3_001_lvd

        

image of Lycopodioides apodum, Meadow Spikemoss

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmsapoda_twinf1

Month Unknown    Pickens County    SC

Lateral stems creeping (or the tips sometimes slightly ascending), per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Lycopodioides apodum, Meadow Spikemoss

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmsapoda_twinf3

Month Unknown    Pickens County    SC

Often overlooked by vascular plant botanists as a moss or liverwort, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Lycopodioides apodum, Meadow Spikemoss

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmsapoda_twinf3b

Month Unknown    Pickens County    SC

Lateral leaves of the main stem ovate, margins dentate-serrate, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
 Lycopodioides apodum   FAMILY Selaginellaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Selaginella apoda   FAMILY Selaginellaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
 Selaginella apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
 Selaginella apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
 Selaginella apoda var. apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
 Selaginella apoda var. apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 004-01-001:
 Selaginella apoda   FAMILY Selaginellaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
 Diplostachyum apodum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1356

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: seepages, bogs, spray cliffs, stream margins, wet meadows, marsh edges, wet spots in lawns, other moist habitats, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Simple
Leaves 4-ranked, upper and lower ranks smaller than lateral

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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