Isoetes lacustris

Tags: Club Moss.

Isoetes lacustris (lake quillwort or Merlin’s grass) is a boreal quillwort native on both sides of the northern Atlantic Ocean. In Europe it is distributed from Poland west to northeastern France throughout Scandinavia the west and north of the British Isles the Faroe Islands and Iceland. In the North America it occurs in the New England states of Maine Vermont New Hampshire and Massachusetts and in Canada in provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus

class

Isoetopsida

conservation status

G5

conservation status system

TNC

division

Lycopodiophyta

genus

Isoetes

kingdom

Plant

synonym

Calamaria lacustris ( (L.) Kuntze ), Isoetes heterospora ( A.A. Eaton ), Isoetes hieroglyphica ( A.A. Eaton ), Isoetes macrospora ( Durieu ), Isoëtes tuckermanii ( A. Braun ex Engelm. ) var. heterospora ( (A.A. Eaton) Clute), Isoetes macrospora ( Durieu ) var. heterospora ( (A.A. Eaton) A.A. Eaton), Isoetes macrospora ( Durieu ) forma hieroglyphica ( (A.A. Eaton) N. Pfeiff.)