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Huperzia selago
Also called Fir Club Moss, Northern Fir Moss, Northern Firmoss
Fir clubmoss is a small, evergreen, perennial fern ally with stiff upright stems densely covered in needle-like leaves. It is a wild plant of cool northern regions and is rarely grown in gardens, so care notes describe its natural conditions.
Huperzia selago, the northern firmoss or fir clubmoss, is a vascular plant in the family Lycopodiaceae. It is small-ish, sturdy, stiff and upright and densely scale-leaved. This plant is an evergreen, perennial pteridophyte. The spores are produced June to September (in the northern hemisphere). It has a circumpolar distribution.
It is a circumpolar plant, found in the northern parts of North America, Europe, and Asia. It is found in sandy pits, ditches, along lakeshores, heathland and in conifer swamps. In the northeastern United States, it is found in boreal habitat, but not alpine zones.
Appalachian clubmoss · Appalachian Firmoss · Huperzia australiana · Shining clubmoss · Rock clubmoss · Toothed clubmoss · Clubmoss
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Huperzia selago by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
