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Carl Farmer |
Frequent on high hills, among grass, heather or moss, or in stony places, sometimes carpeting the ground. Cones c 1-2 cm. Skye ID: The glaucous colour is not found in any other clubmoss. Other features: Has long creeping stems from which arise upright fertile and sterile branches, the fertile ones being those with spreading bracts in the picture, with spore-cases in the angle of the bracts. Sterile branches have leaves closely appressed to stem in 4 rows, these are the bright glaucous ones in the picture. |
