Lycophytes: Selaginellales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lycopodioides apodum
FAMILY
Selaginellaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Lycopodioides from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Selaginella apoda
FAMILY
Selaginellaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 004-01-001:
Selaginella apoda
FAMILY
Selaginellaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Diplostachyum apodum
COMMON NAME:
Meadow Spikemoss
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_seap3_001_lvd
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmsapoda_twinf1
Month Unknown Pickens County SC
Lateral stems creeping (or the tips sometimes slightly ascending), per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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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).
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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 (11/30/12):
Lycopodioides apodum
FAMILY
Selaginellaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Selaginella apoda
FAMILY
Selaginellaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 004-01-001:
Selaginella apoda
FAMILY
Selaginellaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Diplostachyum apodum
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Fern/Fern ally
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in seepages, bogs, on spray cliffs, stream margins, wet meadows, marsh edges, wet spots in lawns, other moist habitats, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Leaves 4-ranked, upper and lower ranks smaller than lateral
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia p218
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas p076
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p374