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Foxtail Clubmoss

Lycopodiella alopecuroides (L.) Cranfill

Description

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Horizontal stems strongly arching, 5--40 X 0.8--1.1 cm, rooting at tip; stems (excluding leaves) 2--4 mm diam.; leaves monomorphic, spreading to ascending, 5--7 X 0.5--0.7 mm, marginal teeth 1--7 per side. Peduncles 1--3 per plant, 6--30 X 0.2--0.3 cm; strobilus 1/3--1/7 total length; leaves spreading to ascending, 6--7 X 0.3--0.5 mm, marginal teeth 1--10 per side. Strobili 20--60 X 12--20 mm. Sporophylls wide-spreading, 6--7 X 0.5--0.9 mm, marginal teeth 1--5 per side in proximal 1/2. 2 n = 156.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 2 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., Fla., Ga., Ky., La., Md., Mass., Miss., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Pa., R.I., S.C., Tex., Va.; West Indies in Cuba.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of North America Vol. 2 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Habitat

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Bogs, marshes, ditches, borrow pits; 0--600m.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 2 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Lycopodium alopecuroides Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1102. 1753
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of North America Vol. 2 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of North America @ eFloras.org
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Flora of North America Editorial Committee
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eFloras.org
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eFloras