Flora of North America species comparison

The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

Lycopodiella inundata

bog club-moss, inundated bog club-moss, inundated clubmoss, lycopodielle inondé, marsh clubmoss, northern bog club-moss, northern marsh clubmoss
Horizontal stems

flat on ground, 3–12 × 0.5–0.9 cm;

stems (excluding leaves) slender, 0.5–0.9 mm diam.;

leaves monomorphic, spreading, upcurved, 5–6 × 0.5–0.7 mm, margins entire.
Peduncles

1(–2) per plant, 3.5–6 × 0.4–0.7 cm;

strobilus length 1/2–1/3 total height;

leaves spreading, 5–6 × 0.5–0.8 mm, margins rarely toothed.
Strobili

10–20 × 2.5–5.5 mm.
Sporophylls

spreading to spreading-ascending, 4.5–5 × 0.5–0.9 mm, margins rarely toothed.
2n

= 156.

Lycopodiella inundata
Habitat Bogs, lakeshores, marshes, lichens, borrow pits
Elevation 0–2000 m (0–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; CT; ID; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MT; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; AB; BC; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; SK; SPM; Eurasia
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 2.
Parent taxa Lycopodiaceae > Lycopodiella
Sibling taxa
L. alopecuroides, L. appressa, L. margueritae, L. prostrata, L. subappressa
Synonyms Lycopodium inundatum
Name authority (Linnaeus) Holub: Preslia 36: 21. (1964)
Web links 
Unless otherwise noted, all data comes from the online version of the Flora of North America, who have made most of their content available via a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).



Type/paste one or more Latin names into the boxes above; matching taxa will show up below the box as you type. You can use the up/down arrow keys to move through the list.

(If the plant you're looking for doesn't show up in the auto-complete list, that means it either isn't described in Flora of North America yet, or it's listed under a synonym. And please note that Flora of North America is still missing several plant families, including Fabaceae, Apiaceae, Boraginaceae, and Polemoniaceae.)

Choose a data source: Flora of North America, OregonFlora, UW Burke Herbarium

The species comparison tool is brought to you by:
Northwest Wildflowers