lesser clubmoss

English

Lesser clubmoss in Austria.

Alternative forms

• lesser club-moss
• Lesser Clubmoss

Noun

lesser clubmoss (plural lesser clubmosses)

1. Selaginella selaginoides, a vascular plant of the family Selaginellaceae that resembles moss and is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere.
   • 1990, Pete Raine, Mediterranean Wildlife: The Rough Guide‎^[1], →ISBN, page 252:

     Interesting herbs which thrive in the shrubby understorey include lesser twayblade Listera cordata, an inconspicuous, green-flowered orchid, typical of coniferous woodlands and bogs, and several more primitive vascular plants, including alpine clubmoss Lycopodium alpinum and lesser clubmoss Selaginella selaginoides.

   • 2005, Margaret Pilkington, Science in the Countryside: Lifelong Learning for Ecological Citizenship‎^[2], →ISBN, page 189:

     Similarly, the grassland at Sheskinmore contains thirteen of the Bunduff site constant species, with only bog pimpernel and lesser clubmoss being absent, perhaps excluded by the longer sward […]

   • 2016, Michael Scott, Mountain Flowers‎^[3], →ISBN, page 107:

     I failed to find Alpine Saxifrage, which grows on just a few boulders here, but I did come across plants of Lesser Clubmoss, growing here almost at the south of its British range.

Synonyms

• northern spikemoss
• prickly mountain-moss

Translations

Selaginella selaginoides

• Finnish: mähkä (fi)
• Icelandic: mosajafni (is) m
• Welsg: cnwp-fwsogl bach m