Lycopodium lagopus explained

Lycopodium lagopus, commonly known as one-cone club-moss, is an arctic and subarctic species of plants in the genus Lycopodium in the clubmoss family. It is widespread in cold, northerly regions: Canada, Greenland, Russia, Scandinavia, and the northern United States including Alaska.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Lycopodium lagopus is very similar to L. clavatum except that it rarely has more than one cone per stem. There has been no evidence of the two interbreeding, even though they can sometimes be found growing next to each other.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Czerepanov, S. K. 1981. Sosudistye Rasteniia SSSR 509 pages. Nauka, Leningradskoe Otd-nie, Leningrad.
2. http://www.ferns.rogergolding.co.uk/ferngenus/lycopodium/lagopus.html Lycopodium lagopus - Ferns in Britain and Ireland - Roger Golding
3. http://www.alaskawildflowers.us/Kingdom/Plantae/Other_Families/Lycopodiaceae/Lycopodium_clavatum/index.html Alaska Wildflowers
4. http://www.murman.ru/flora/data/1200112.shtml Lycopodium lagopus - Плаун куропаточий
5. http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=lycopodium+clavatum+subsp.+monostachyon Altervista Flora Italiana, Lycopodium clavatum subsp. monostachyon (Grev. & Hook.) Selander
6. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233500762 Flora of North America, Lycopodium lagopus (Laestadius ex C. Hartman) G. Zinserling ex Kuzeneva Prochorova, 1953. One-cone club-moss, lycopode patte-de-lapin