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§1 Plant

Huperzia lucidula (Michx.) Trevis.

vernacular shining clubmoss — species · Lycopodiaceae


USDA
HULU2
GBIF
2688524
Rank
species
shining clubmoss (Huperzia lucidula)
Platephotograph · copepodoCC BY-NC-ND 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
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 582 counties across 30 states/territories
Legend Native · 582 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 582 counties across 30 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 4 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 9 N
Illinois view state ↗ 18 N
Indiana view state ↗ 21 N
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 34 N
Maine view state ↗ 15 N
Maryland view state ↗ 6 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 29 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 11 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 20 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N
New York view state ↗ 54 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 28 N
Ohio view state ↗ 45 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 65 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 24 N
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N
Virginia view state ↗ 80 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 64 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/HULU2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2688524 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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