interrupted clubmoss

English

interrupted clubmoss

Alternative forms

• interrupted club moss
• Interrupted Clubmoss

Noun

interrupted clubmoss (uncountable)

1. Lycopodium annotinum, a club moss of the family Lycopodiaceae common throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
   • 1973, Eric Hardy, The Naturalist in Lakeland‎^[1], page 70:

     Bowfell is not among the places he must visit, but viviparous alpine bistort grows there at over 1,800ft, and there is also interrupted clubmoss, which grows too in Rossett Ghyll and up Great Langdale on the grassy slopes among damp rocks.

   • 2007, Lucio Bonato, Alessandro Minelli, Mountain conifer forests: a mantle of fine green needles‎^[2], page 20:

     Among the species which best characterise the undergrowth of conifers, on acid humus - and therefore in particular, but not only, in spruce woods - is the creeping and common interrupted clubmoss (Lycopodium annotinum).

   • 2010, Derek Ratcliffe, Lapland: A Natural History‎^[3], →ISBN, page 91:

     Interrupted Clubmoss is generally common, and Issler's clubmoss Diphasiastrum complanatum scattered.

Synonyms

• stiff clubmoss

Translations

Lycopodium annotinum

• Finnish: riidenlieko (fi)
• Icelandic: lyngjafni (is) m
• Ingrian: variksenvarpaat
• Welsh: cnwp-fwsogl bylchog m