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Diphasiastrum tristachyum
Also called Blue Ground Cedar, Deep Root Clubmoss, Three Spiked Clubmoss, Wiry Ground Cedar, Blue Clubmoss, Cypress Clubmoss, Northern Ground Pine
Deeproot Clubmoss is a perennial clubmoss native to North America and Eurasia, found in woodlands and open ground. It grows from deep creeping underground stems, and the key to growing it is cool, moist, acidic conditions with minimal disturbance.
Diphasiastrum tristachyum, commonly known as blue clubmoss, blue ground-cedar, ground pine, deep-rooted running-pine or ground cedar, is a North American and Eurasian species of clubmoss. In North America, it has been found from Newfoundland west to Manitoba, and south as far as Georgia and Alabama. In Eurasia, it ranges from southern Norway and Sweden south to France and Italy and it also occurs in the Caucasus.
The name tristachyum means three branched.
Alpine clubmoss · Complanate clubmoss · Fan Clubmoss · Diphasiastrum issleri · Diphasiastrum multispicatum · Savinleaf Groundpine · Alaskan Clubmoss · Clubmoss
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