Diphasiastrum complanatum

Tags: Club Moss.

Diphasiastrum complanatum common names Creeping Jenny or Northern Running-pine is a species of clubmoss native to dry coniferous forests throughout the Holarctic Kingdom. Under the original name Lycopodium complanatum this was an inclusive superspecies that included a number of other species now known to be biologically separate.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus

class

Lycopodiopsida

conservation status

G5

conservation status system

TNC

division

Lycopodiophyta

family

Lycopodiaceae

genus

Diphasiastrum

kingdom

Plant

order

Lycopodiopsida

synonym

*Diphasium anceps (Á. Löve & D. Löve), *Diphasium complanatum (L.) Rothm.), *Diphasium wallrothii (H.P. Fuchs), *Lepidotis complanata (L.) P. Beauv.), *Lycopodium complanatum (L.), *Stachygynandrum complanatum (L.) C. Presl)