club moss
noun
: any of an order (Lycopodiales) of primitive vascular plants (such as ground pine) often with the sporangia borne in club-shaped strobili
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The club moss, or the beaver, or the chipping sparrow, or the black crappie, or wild rice?
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Pamela Miller, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
Plants that won't overgrow the container, such as boxwood, croton, Joseph's coat, pineapple verbena and twiggy spikemoss for sun-loving plants, and gnome ivy, golden club moss, Irish or Scottish club moss and miniature ferns for shade-loving plants.
—Jennifer Nalewicki, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2020
But during the Carboniferous period, which stretched from about 360 to 300 million years ago, the region was a subtropical swamp dominated by lycopids, giant relatives of today’s club mosses that could grow over a hundred feet tall.
—Tim Vernimmen, National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2019
Flowers had not evolved, and the ground was dominated by primitive plants called lycopods (ancestors of club mosses and quillworts).
—Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
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Pamela Miller, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
Plants that won't overgrow the container, such as boxwood, croton, Joseph's coat, pineapple verbena and twiggy spikemoss for sun-loving plants, and gnome ivy, golden club moss, Irish or Scottish club moss and miniature ferns for shade-loving plants.
—Jennifer Nalewicki, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2020
But during the Carboniferous period, which stretched from about 360 to 300 million years ago, the region was a subtropical swamp dominated by lycopids, giant relatives of today’s club mosses that could grow over a hundred feet tall.
—Tim Vernimmen, National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2019
Flowers had not evolved, and the ground was dominated by primitive plants called lycopods (ancestors of club mosses and quillworts).
—Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
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“Club moss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/club%20moss. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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