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§1 Plant

Huperzia appalachiana Beitel & Mickel

vernacular Appalachian clubmoss — species · Lycopodiaceae


USDA
HUAP
GBIF
2688543
Rank
species
Appalachian clubmoss (Huperzia appalachiana)
Platephotograph · earthknight source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Lycopod
Family
Lycopodiaceae P. Beauv. ex Mirb.
Genus
Huperzia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 96 counties across 8 states/territories
Legend Native · 96 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 96 counties across 8 states/territories.

Georgia view state ↗ 35 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 N
New York view state ↗ 3 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N
Virginia view state ↗ 46 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/HUAP ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2688543 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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