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§1 Plant

Lycopodium digitatum Dill. ex A. Braun

vernacular fan clubmoss — species · Lycopodiaceae


USDA
LYDI3
GBIF
2688379 syn.
Rank
species
fan clubmoss (Lycopodium digitatum)
Platephotograph · cgbb2004CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 581 counties across 23 states/territories
Legend Native · 581 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 581 counties across 23 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 14 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 43 N
Illinois view state ↗ 22 N
Indiana view state ↗ 22 N
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 66 N
Maryland view state ↗ 13 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 7 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 21 N
New York view state ↗ 58 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 43 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 67 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 42 N
Vermont view state ↗ 3 N
Virginia view state ↗ 96 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 38 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/LYDI3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2688379 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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