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Your search found 3 taxa in the family Huperziaceae, Firmoss family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
Common Name: Shining Clubmoss, Shining Firmoss
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Huperzia lucidula FAMILY: Huperziaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Huperzia lucidula FAMILY: Lycopodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lycopodium lucidulum 003-01-001 FAMILY: Lycopodiaceae
Habitat: Moist forests and ravines
Common in Mountains (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Appalachian Firmoss, Appalachian Fir-clubmoss
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Huperzia appressa FAMILY: Huperziaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Huperzia appalachiana FAMILY: Lycopodiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lycopodium selago 003-01-002 FAMILY: Lycopodiaceae
Habitat: Rock outcrops at high elevations (very rarely at middle elevations), rarely also in seepage or along banks of small streams at high elevations, and in fens (on hummocks)
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Common Name: Rock Clubmoss, Rock Firmoss
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Huperzia porophila FAMILY: Huperziaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Huperzia porophila FAMILY: Lycopodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lycopodium porophilum 003-01-003 FAMILY: Lycopodiaceae
Habitat: Rock outcrops and cliffs, especially in the spray of waterfalls, at low to medium elevations, usually on sandstone or felsic metamorphic or metaigneous rocks (acidic schists, gneisses, granitic gneisses), and most characteristically on ledges or in crevices in overhung settings along the cliff face where the plants receive little or no direct sunlight
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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