Foxtail bog club-moss

Lycopodium alopecuroides Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 1102. 1753

Horizontal stems strongly arching, 5--40 X 0.8--1.1 cm, rooting at tip; stems (excluding leaves) 2--4 mm diam.; leaves monomorphic, spreading to ascending, 5--7 X 0.5--0.7 mm, marginal teeth 1--7 per side. Peduncles 1--3 per plant, 6--30 X 0.2--0.3 cm; strobilus 1/3--1/7 total length; leaves spreading to ascending, 6--7 X 0.3--0.5 mm, marginal teeth 1--10 per side. Strobili 20--60 X 12--20 mm. Sporophylls wide-spreading, 6--7 X 0.5--0.9 mm, marginal teeth 1--5 per side in proximal 1/2. 2 n = 156.

Bogs, marshes, ditches, borrow pits; 0--600 m; Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., Fla., Ga., Ky., La., Md., Mass., Miss., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Pa., R.I., S.C., Tex., Va.; West Indies in Cuba.