Southern Bog Clubmoss

Horizontal stems flat on ground, 15--45 X 0.4--0.6 cm; stems (excluding leaves) thick, 1.5--2 mm wide; leaves monomorphic, appressed, 5--7 X 0.8--1 mm, marginal teeth 0--7 per side. Peduncles 1--7 per plant, 13--40 X 0.3--0.4 cm; strobilus 1/3--1/6 total length; leaves appressed, 3--5.3 X 0.3--0.5 mm, marginal teeth 0--3 per side. Strobili 25--60 X 3--4 mm. Sporophylls appressed, incurved, 3.5--5 X 0.3 mm, marginal teeth absent. 2 n = 156.

N.B., Nfld., N.S., P.E.I.; Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., Fla., Ga., Ill., Kans., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Mass., Miss., Mo., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Okla., Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va.; West Indies in Cuba.

Bogs, lakeshores, marshes, ditches, borrow pits; 0--100m.

Lycopodium inundatum Linnaeus var. appressum Chapman, Bot. Gaz. 3: 20. 1878; L. appressum (Chapman) F. E. Lloyd & L. Underwood; L. inundatum var. bigelovii Tuckerman

Lycopodiella appressa, commonly known as southern bog clubmoss, is a species of clubmoss. It is native to eastern North America, including Cuba and the West Indies. In the United States, it is primarily found on the Coastal Plain.

Its natural habitat is open wet areas, such as bogs, seeps, and pond shores.