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  • noun Alternative spelling of club moss.

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Examples

  • It shelters species such as interrupted clubmoss Lycopodium annotinum ssp. alpestre, common horsetail Equisetum arvense and in the drier parts round-leaved wintergreen Pyrola grandiflora.

    Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

  • Highland slopes were characterized by an association of clubmoss (Lycopodium trichiatum), a fern (Gleichemia polypodioides), and flowering plants (Poa fuegiana, Acaena seurguisarbae, Scirpus aucklandicus, Uncinia brevicaulis, and Trisetum insulare).

    Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands 2007

  • _Equisetum silvaticum_ is our rarest horsetail; and our only clubmoss is

    Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901

  • a clubmoss; Moss-like plants — a liverwort, a true moss; Plant-cells — structure, growth, modification, the methods of cell-division;

    The University of Virginia Record 1909

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