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club-moss (Diphasiastrum, Huperzia,

          Lycopodiella, and Lycopodium spp.)

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club moss (Diphasiastrum, Hupersia, Lycopodiella, and Lycopodium spp.; CLUB MOSS FAMILY [Lycopodiaceae]) Small, erect, trailing, or creeping, evergreen perennial plants with narrow, simple, crowded leaves.  Sexual reproduction is by bisexual gametophytes produced by a single kind of spore, but most propagation is by running growth while older parts of the plant die off.  Can be confused with conifer seedlings.  Eighteen species in Wisconsin, half a dozen common, mostly in woodland or forest understories.  [004]

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