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Dendrolycopodium hickeyi (Pennsylvania clubmoss)

Synonyms: Lycopodium hickeyi; Lycopodium obscurum var. isophyllum (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Lycopodium hickeyi, Hickey's tree club-moss or Pennsylvania clubmoss, is North American a species of clubmoss in the family Lycopodiaceae. It is native to eastern and Central Canada (from Newfoundland to Ontario with isolated populations in Saskatchewan) and the eastern and north-central United States (from Maine west to Minnesota and south as far as Tennessee and North Carolina). Lycopodium hickeyi is very similar to L. obscurum except for a few minor but consistent features: side shoots round rather than flat in cross section, leaves all the same size.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Algonquin Provincial Park IV 1868802 Ontario, Canada
Great Smoky Mountains National Park II 515454 North Carolina, Tennessee, United States
Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve 470167 Ontario, Canada  
Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve 37548505 North Carolina, Tennessee, United States  
Woodland Caribou Provincial Wilderness Park Provincial Park II 1072124 Ontario, Canada

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0