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Lycopodium lagopus
Also called Ptarmigan clubmoss, One Cone Ground Pine, Hare's Foot Clubmoss, Arctic Stag's Horn Clubmoss
One-cone clubmoss is a low, creeping evergreen clubmoss (not a true shrub or flowering plant) of arctic and subarctic tundra and northern forest. It is grown mainly as a cold-climate native groundcover or for study, and it needs cool, moist, acidic conditions.
Lycopodium lagopus, commonly known as one-cone club-moss, is an arctic and subarctic species of plants in the genus Lycopodium in the clubmoss family. It is widespread in cold, northerly regions: Canada, Greenland, Russia, Scandinavia, and the northern United States including Alaska.
Lycopodium lagopus is very similar to L. clavatum except that it rarely has more than one cone per stem. There has been no evidence of the two interbreeding, even though they can sometimes be found growing next to each other.
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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.
