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Huperzia lucidula ~ Lycopodium lucidulum ~ shining club moss

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Characteristics:
  • FAC+
  • Michigan C Value: 5
  • a bright evergreen, rhizomatous clubmoss
  • growing in loose tufts to 15.24 cm tall
  • bulblet-forming branchlets produced at end of each annual growth cycle
  • sporangia nestled in base of upper leaves
  • leaf edges irregularly toothed
  • roots from creeping, branching, underground rhizome
  • absence of horizontal, running surface stems
  • clustered upright shoots are not tree like
  • spore bearing cones are absent
  • native
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