Flora of North America species comparison

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Pseudolycopodiella caroliniana

slender bog club-moss, slender false bog-clubmoss
Horizontal stems

flat in cross section, evergreen, tightly anchored by roots, year's growth 3–12 × 0.9–1.1 cm;

leaves 3.5–6 × 1.2–2 mm, facing upward, spreading and appearing 2-ranked, broadly adnate, slightly subulate, median leaves 3.5–4 × 0.3–0.6 mm, nearly erect.
Peduncle

1–(2–3), 5–30 cm, leaves 2–3 × 0.3–0.6 mm, in remote appressed pseudowhorls.
Strobilus

1.5–9 × 0.3–0.5 mm.
2n

= 70, 140.

Pseudolycopodiella caroliniana
Habitat Wet meadows, ditches, pinewoods, and bogs, often with sphagnum moss
Elevation 0–50 m (0–200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; DE; FL; GA; KY; LA; MA; MD; MS; NC; NJ; NY; PA; SC; TX; VA; Mexico; Central America; South America; Asia; Africa
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 2.
Parent taxa Lycopodiaceae > Pseudolycopodiella
Synonyms Lycopodium carolinianum
Name authority (Linnaeus) Holub: Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 18: 442. (1983)
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