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Carl Farmer |
Occasional on moorland or beside upland tracks. Leaves c 3-5 mm long, cones c 2-5 cm long on stalks c 3-7 cm long. ID: Leaves end in a long white flexible hair, not a stiff point as in Interrupted Clubmoss. Much branched with branches lying along ground or clambering through heather. Other features: Cones are distinctive, being pale buff when ripe, but pale green when young as in these pictures, and occuring in ones, twos or threes on long stalks. Creeping stem puts down roots along its length. At high altitude look out for plants resembling Lycopodium lagopus, which has mostly single cones on stalks < 2 cm long, and smaller leaves. See http://www.bsbiscotland.org.uk/Documents%20on-line/Lycopodium%20lagopus.pdf and http://www.watsonia.org.uk/Wats26p477.pdf |
