1 8 Lycopodiaceae 



LYCOPODIACE^ 

 Club-moss Family 



Branching, moss-like plants with small 

 lanceolate or subulate, sometimes oblong 

 or roundish simple leaves, arranged in two 

 or many ranks on trailing or sometimes 

 erect, usually branched stems. 



Sporanges solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves or on their upper surfaces. 



Stems usually yellowish through- 

 Lycopodium 



Selago L. oirt > 3~6 inches high, thick, rigid, 

 Fir Club- erect, 2-5 times forked, the 

 moss. branches forming a level topped 



cluster; leaves crowded, uniform, ascending, 

 elongated, lanceolate with a spiny tip, the 

 upper mostly 8 -ranked and sterile, those 

 below bearing small sporanges in their axils, 

 leaves of the lower half of the stems again 

 sterile; plant propagated also by enlarged 

 bud-like organs. 



Throughout the region in alpine meadows 

 and slopes above 6000 feet elevation. 



