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§1 Plant
Lycopodium annotinum L.
vernacular stiff clubmoss — species · Lycopodiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Lycopod
- Family
- Lycopodiaceae P. Beauv. ex Mirb.
- Genus
- Lycopodium
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 218 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -43 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–5.3
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- None
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- None
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 218 counties across 15 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Aleutians West 02016
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Dillingham 02070
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Haines 02100
- Juneau 02110
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Ketchikan Gateway 02130
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Sitka 02220
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Maine view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Anoka 27003
- Beltrami 27007
- Carlton 27017
- Cass 27021
- Chisago 27025
- Clearwater 27029
- Cook 27031
- Crow Wing 27035
- Douglas 27041
- Hennepin 27053
- Hubbard 27057
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Kanabec 27065
- Koochiching 27071
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Pine 27115
- St. Louis 27137
Montana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Broome 36007
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Fulton 36035
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Oneida 36065
- Ontario 36069
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Rensselaer 36083
- Saratoga 36091
- Schuyler 36097
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Bradford 42015
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 10 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Ashland 55003
- Barron 55005
- Bayfield 55007
- Door 55029
- Douglas 55031
- Florence 55037
- Forest 55041
- Iron 55051
- Langlade 55067
- Lincoln 55069
- Manitowoc 55071
- Marathon 55073
- Marinette 55075
- Menominee 55078
- Oconto 55083
- Oneida 55085
- Price 55099
- Rusk 55107
- Sawyer 55113
- Shawano 55115
- Sheboygan 55117
- Taylor 55119
- Vilas 55125
- Washburn 55129
- Waupaca 55135
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LYAN2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/9707050 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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