OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Lycophytes: Selaginellales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Selaginella apoda   FAMILY Selaginellaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Selaginella apoda   FAMILY Selaginellaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Selaginella apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)

Selaginella apoda var. apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of Virginia (Weakley, Ludwig & Townsend, 2012)

Lycopodioides apodum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)

Selaginella apoda var. apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Selaginella apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2 (1993)

Selaginella apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 004-01-001:

Selaginella apoda   FAMILY Selaginellaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Diplostachyum apodum

 

COMMON NAME:
Meadow Spikemoss


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image of Selaginella apoda, Meadow Spikemoss

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_seap3_001_lvd

        

image of Selaginella apoda, Meadow Spikemoss

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmsapoda_twinf1

Month Unknown    Pickens County    SC

Lateral stems creeping (or the tips sometimes slightly ascending), per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Selaginella apoda, Meadow Spikemoss

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmsapoda_twinf3

Month Unknown    Pickens County    SC

Often overlooked by vascular plant botanists as a moss or liverwort, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Selaginella apoda, Meadow Spikemoss

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmsapoda_twinf3b

Month Unknown    Pickens County    SC

Lateral leaves of the main stem ovate, margins dentate-serrate, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Selaginella apoda   FAMILY Selaginellaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Selaginella apoda   FAMILY Selaginellaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Selaginella apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Selaginella apoda var. apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of Virginia (Weakley, Ludwig & Townsend, 2012)
Lycopodioides apodum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Selaginella apoda var. apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Selaginella apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2
Selaginella apoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 004-01-001:
Selaginella apoda   FAMILY Selaginellaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Diplostachyum apodum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1356

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: seepages, bogs, spray cliffs, stream margins, wet meadows, marsh edges, wet spots in lawns, other moist habitats, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Simple
Leaves 4-ranked, upper and lower ranks smaller than lateral

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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